Wallops VA (SPX) Feb 19, 2021 - Northrop Grumman is set to launch the company's 15th resupply mission (NG-15) to the International Space Station under NASA's Commercial Resupply Service-2 contract. The NG-15 mission's Cygnus space
London (AFP) Feb 19, 2021 - G7 powers opened a summit on Friday facing demands to broaden their coronavirus vaccine rollouts to the world's poor, as US President Joe Biden and the rest of the elite club looked to move on from the psychodramas of the Trump era.
Washington (AFP) Feb 19, 2021 - NASA on Friday released stunning new photographs from Perseverance, including one of the rover being gently lowered to the surface of Mars by a set of cables, the first time such a view has been captured.
Boston MA (SPX) Feb 18, 2021 - The latest NASA rover, scheduled to land on Mars tomorrow after traveling more than six months in interplanetary space, is carrying with it a special instrument called MOXIE. About the size of a car
Houston TX (SPX) Feb 18, 2021 - An uncrewed Russian Progress 77 spacecraft arrived at the International Space Station's Pirs docking compartment on the station's Russian segment at 1:27 a.m. EST, two days after lifting off from th
Beijing (XNA) Feb 18, 2021 - Chinese astronauts have started receiving intensive training for spaceflights tasked with building the nation's space station, the China Manned Space Agency said on Tuesday. Several astronauts
London, UK (SPX) Feb 18, 2021 - The 33rd annual UKSEDS National Student Space Conference, to be held online on the 6th and 7th of March 2021, will feature talks from Kathyrn Lueders - NASA's Human Spaceflight chief, Dr Timiebi Aga
KSC FL (SPX) Feb 18, 2021 - On Saturday, February 20, no earlier than 12:36 p.m. EST, Northrop Grumman is scheduled to launch its Cygnus spacecraft on an Antares rocket to the International Space Station (ISS), marking its 15t
Boston MA (SPX) Feb 17, 2021 - MIT researchers have invented a new type of amputation surgery that can help amputees to better control their residual muscles and sense where their phantom limb is in space. This restored sense o
Orlando FL (UPI) Feb 17, 2021 - Having spent well over $150 billion on the International Space Station, NASA fears a potential lack of launch vehicles could leave the orbiting platform without a U.S. astronaut and create a potenti
Madrid, Spain (SPX) Feb 17, 2021 - The technological multinational GMV , European leader in Space Situational Awareness (SSA) and Space Surveillance and Tracking (SST), has been chosen by the European Commission to lead a Coordinatio
Moscow (AFP) Feb 17, 2021 - Moscow on Wednesday said it had refused a visa for a new representative in Russia for the US space agency NASA, accusing Washington of blocking Russian visa applications to the United States.
Baikonur, Kazakhstan (Sputnik) Feb 16, 2021 - Progress 77 is expected to remain docked to the Russian segment of the International Space Station (ISS) until July 2021. Last year, Russia sent two Progress MS resupply spacecraft to the ISS, in Ap
Moscow (Sputnik) Feb 16, 2021 - Russia is going to carry out more than 10 launches of Soyuz-2 carrier rockets from the Baikonur cosmodrome this year, Ruslan Mukhamedzhanov, the head of the Centre for the Operation of Ground-Based
Lampoldshausen, Germany (SPX) Feb 16, 2021 - On 14 February 2021, the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum fur Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) will receive the first upper stage of the European Ariane 6 launcher. The fully functional test modu
Washington DC (SPX) Feb 15, 2021 - Using nuclear propulsion technologies to support a human mission to Mars in 2039 will require NASA to pursue an aggressive and urgent technology development program, says a new report from the Natio
