Washington DC (SPX) Jun 30, 2020 - Before NASA astronauts fly the Orion spacecraft on Artemis missions to the Moon and back, engineers needed to thoroughly test its ability to withstand the stresses of launch, climb to orbit, the har
Moscow (Sputnik) Jun 30, 2020 - The production cost of each of Russia's new Angara-A5 heavy-lift rockets, manufactured for the Defence Ministry under a contract on test flights, is below 5 billion rubles ($71.6 million), the State
Huntsville AL (SPX) Jun 30, 2020 - NASA has taken the next steps toward building Space Launch System (SLS) solid rocket boosters to support as many as six additional flights, for a total of up to nine Artemis missions. The agency is
Moscow (AFP) June 30, 2020 - Russian cosmonaut Anatoly Ivanishin became the first person to vote online from the International Space Station on Tuesday, the Russian Space Agency Roscosmos announced.
New York (AFP) June 29, 2020 - The elusive 2001: A Space Odyssey spacesuit believed to have been worn by Dr. David Bowman when he killed HAL in the groundbreaking 1968 film goes on the auction block next month.
Falls Church VA (SPX) Jun 26, 2020 - In May 2019, the OmegATM first stage fired in Northrop Grumman's northern Utah test area, fulfilling a 2016 commitment made by the company to test a stage of its OmegA rocket by spring 2019. As soon
Washington DC (UPI) Jun 26, 2020 - Two NASA astronauts conducted a spacewalk to replace lithium ion batteries outside of the International Space Station on Friday with only a minor snafu - the loss of a mirror. Astronauts Chris
Orlando FL (UPI) Jun 26, 2020 - SpaceX scrubbed Friday's plan to launch additional Starlink satellites in a mission that had another paying customer on board - what SpaceX calls its ride-share program. The change in plans wa
Washington DC (Sputnik) Jun 26, 2020 - According to a Thursday statement by Virgin Galactic, the space company's second gliding test of its Unity spacecraft appears to have been a success. Now, the air-deployed spaceplane will move on to
Las Cruces NM (SPX) Jun 26, 2020 - Virgin Galactic Holdings, Inc. has reported the successful completion of the second SpaceShipTwo test flight from Spaceport America. This flight follows the completion of the first test flight from
Moscow (Sputnik) Jun 26, 2020 - Roscosmos and Space Adventures have been cooperating in space tourism since 2001, when the first space tourist, Dennis Tito, went into orbit. Since then, a total of seven people have been in space u
On June 24, 2020, engineers completed the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket's structural testing campaign for the Artemis lunar missions by testing the liquid oxygen structural test article to find its point of failure.
Moscow (Sputnik) Jun 25, 2020 - The search for a source of toxic benzene in the atmosphere of the International Space Station will resume at the end of July after the delivery of the new US air quality monitor on board the Russian
Moscow (AFP) June 25, 2020 - Russia's Energia space corporation said Thursday it will take the first tourist on a space walk in 2023, under the terms of a new contract with a US partner.
Beijing (XNA) Jun 25, 2020 - Yuanwang-6 - China's space-tracking ship, Yuanwang-6, has completed maritime monitoring for the last satellite launch of the country's BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS) in the Pacific Ocean o
Turin, Italy (SPX) Jun 25, 2020 - Thales Alenia Space, Joint Venture between Thales (67 %) and Leonardo (33 %) announced the signature of an ATP (Authorization To Proceed) with Axiom Space of Houston, Texas to initiate the developme
