Moscow (AFP) Dec 14, 2020 - Russia on Monday conducted a second launch of its new heavy-class Angara rocket - the first developed after the fall of the Soviet Union - nearly six years after its maiden voyage.
Washington DC (UPI) Dec 13, 2020 - SpaceX launched a radio communications satellite for SiriusXM from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Sunday afternoon amid blue skids and puffy clouds, two days after scrubbing the flight with 30 seconds until liftoff.
Washington (AFP) Dec 12, 2020 - Virgin Galactic's passenger aircraft SpaceShipTwo was forced to abort a test flight on Saturday after a technical malfunction, with the two pilots returning to Earth safely, the company said.
Washington DC (Sputnik) Dec 10, 2020 - The United States is developing different versions of nuclear power to use on lunar and other space bases and for long-range interplanetary manned and unmanned probes, Secretary of Energy Dan Brouil
San Diego CA (SPX) Dec 10, 2020 - Researchers have discovered a new superhighway network to travel through the Solar System much faster than was previously possible. Such routes can drive comets and asteroids near Jupiter to Neptune
Orlando FL (UPI) Dec 10, 2020 - The U.S. Space Force is studying the possibility of merging management of dozens of launch sites in Florida and California under a new operator to keep pace with the growing commercial space industr
Forres UK (SPX) Dec 10, 2020 - Orbex, the innovative European space launch company, has secured $24 million in a funding round led by BGF, the UK's most active investment company, and Octopus Ventures, one of the largest VCs in E
Moscow (Sputnik) Dec 10, 2020 - SpaceX's prototype SN8 rocket crashed and exploded on Wednesday evening during a test flight in Texas. The rocket is intended to ferry humans to the moon and Mars one day. A Wednesday test fli
Bern, Switzerland (SPX) Dec 10, 2020 - In October RUAG Space, a leading supplier to the space industry, delivered a first flight model of the high-temperature insulation for the new European rocket Ariane 6. The insulation is being produ
Washington DC (SPX) Dec 10, 2020 - President Donald J. Trump issued the National Space Policy Wednesday. Through this policy, the president reaffirms his commitment to move space exploration goals beyond low-Earth orbit and return hu
Cape Canaveral, FL (SPX) Dec 09, 2020 - The privately-owned Nanoracks Bishop Airlock, has reached ISS after a successful launch onboard the CRS-21 mission. This is a monumental moment for Nanoracks, says CEO Jeffrey Manber. We ca
Washington DC (SPX) Dec 09, 2020 - NASA and Boeing have completed Starliner's last parachute balloon drop test ending a reliability campaign that will help strengthen the spacecraft's landing system ahead of crewed flights to and fro
Paris, France (SPX) Dec 09, 2020 - Arianespace has signed a contract with Airbus to launch four new-generation optical observation satellites of the CO3D (Composante Optique 3D) constellation, to be orbited using the Vega C launcher.
Moscow (AFP) Dec 9, 2020 - The Russian space agency said on Wednesday it planned to offer the Sputnik coronavirus vaccine to cosmonauts but insisted that the vaccination would be done on a voluntary basis.
Ankara, Turkey (Sputnik) Dec 07, 2020 - Independent access to space has become one of Turkey's national priorities under the Recep Tayyip Erdogan government. Turkey's Space Agency head, Serdar Huseyin Yildirim, has shed light on the agenc
Washington DC (UPI) Dec 07, 2020 - SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket, with 1.7 million pounds of thrust, lifted off at 11:17 a.m. EST Sunday on clear skies from Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center in Florida with cargo headed to the Internati
