Beijing (Sputnik) Sep 07, 2020 - The Chinese reusable experimental spaceship has successfully returned to Earth having spent two days in the orbit, Chinese news agency Xinhua reported on Sunday. The reusable spaceship was lau
Washington DC (UPI) Sep 04, 2020 - Long-term space travel can have a variety of effects on the physiology of astronauts. New research suggests prolonged exposure to microgravity does cause parts of the brain to reorganize itself, but does not trigger neurodegeneration, the loss of brain tissue.
Pasadena CA (JPL) Sep 03, 2020 - In October 2015, hurricane-laura-louisiana Patricia in the Northeast Pacific Ocean blew up from a Category 1 storm into a Category 5 monster within 24 hours, its winds leaping from 86 mph (138 kph)
Promontory UT (SPX) Sep 03, 2020 - NASA and Northrop Grumman Corporation have conducted a full-scale static fire test of NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) rocket motor, known as Flight Support Booster (FSB-1), in Promontory. Dur
Huntsville AL (SPX) Sep 03, 2020 - As NASA begins assembling the boosters for the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket that will power the first Artemis mission to the Moon, teams in Utah are evaluating materials and processes to improve
Paris (ESA) Sep 03, 2020 - Vega's return to flight today proves new launch service capabilities on an ESA-developed launch vehicle while ensuring continuity of Europe's guaranteed and independent access to space. This f
Washington (Sputnik) Sep 02, 2020 - SpaceX CEO Elon Musk says the Starship reusable launch vehicle that his company is developing with the intention of taking humans to the moon and Mars at some point, could fly to the near-Earth orbi
Washington DC (SPX) Sep 02, 2020 - DARPA and the US Air Force (ave announced the successful completion of captive carry tests of two variants of the Hypersonic Air-breathing Weapon Concept (HAWC) and are ready to proceed to first fre
Washington DC (SPX) Sep 02, 2020 - NASA is looking for leaders for one of the best jobs on Earth for human spaceflight - including missions to the Moon - the position of flight director in mission control at the agency's Johnson Spac
Washington DC (UPI) Sep 02, 2020 - Engineers successfully performed a test fire of the Space Launch System rocket's full-scale booster on Wednesday afternoon.
Kourou, French Guiana (ESA) Sep 01, 2020 - Arianespace has decided to resume launch preparation operations for vega-c-features-small-spacecraft-mission-service-chart Flight VV16, aiming for a launch window between September 1 and September 4
Urbana IL (SPX) Aug 31, 2020 - In a year defined by obstacles, a University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign student rocket team persevered. Working together across five time zones, they successfully designed a hybrid rocket engin
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Aug 31, 2020 - Pursuant to the shared goal of continuing to advance bilateral space cooperation and to further strengthen the Japan-U.S. alliance as declared by the leaders of both nations, the Government of Japan
Kennedy Space Center FL (SPX) Aug 31, 2020 - NASA and Boeing continue to make progress toward the company's second uncrewed flight test of the CST-100 Starliner spacecraft prior to flying astronauts to the International Space Station as part o
Beijing (XNA) Aug 31, 2020 - China's Tianwen 1 Mars probe had traveled 100 million kilometers as of Friday morning, according to the China National Space Administration. The administration said in a statement that the spa
Orlando FL (UPI) Aug 31, 2020 - SpaceX launched a satellite for Argentina's space agency from Florida on Sunday evening that will monitor weather and agricultural conditions. A Falcon 9 rocket lifted off with the SAOCOM 1B s
