Xichang (XNA) Mar 12, 2019 - China has made significant progress in the development of the key technologies of the heavy-lift carrier rocket, the Long March-9, which is expected to make its maiden flight around 2030. The
Xichang (XNA) Mar 12, 2019 - With a Long March-3B rocket putting a new communication satellite into orbit on Sunday, China's Long March carrier rocket series completed 300 launches, having sent more than 500 spacecraft into spa
Beijing (XNA) Mar 12, 2019 - Research findings from China's Tianzhou-1 Space Mission have shown that the microgravity environment in space promotes heart cell differentiation of mice induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells, provid
Paris (ESA) Mar 12, 2019 - A flourishing small satellites market is driving demand for new ways to access space. Recent industry feasibility studies backed by ESA for new microlauncher services, are creating new business oppo
Washington DC (SPX) Mar 12, 2019 - The International Space Station (ISS) Multilateral Coordination Board (MCB), which oversees the management of the ISS, met on March 5th, 2019. Its members[1] acknowledged the recent 20th anniversary
College Park MD (SPX) Mar 11, 2019 - Researchers at the Joint Quantum Institute (JQI) have implemented an experimental test for quantum scrambling, a chaotic shuffling of the information stored among a collection of quantum particles.
Kennedy Space Center FL (SPX) Mar 11, 2019 - NASA will soon return humans to the Moon for decades to come, and the system that will transport astronauts from Earth to the Gateway near the Moon is literally coming together. Building on progress
Moscow (Sputnik) Mar 11, 2019 - Elon Musk, the CEO of US private aerospace manufacturer SpaceX, called Russia's rocket engineering excellent and said the country's rocket engines are the best currently flying, also suggesting th
Baikonur, Kazakhstan (SPX) Mar 11, 2019 - Energia corporation specialists working at the Baikonur launch site continue preparing the integrated launch vehicle with the crew transportation spacecraft (CTS) Soyuz MS-12 for its launch to the I
Beijing (Sputnik) Mar 11, 2019 - Chinese legislators have urged the country to formulate its own space law to boost the development of commercial space and pay more attention to the outflow of talent. China's private space se
Beijing (XNA) Mar 11, 2019 - China's first carrier rocket for commercial use is scheduled to make its maiden flight in the first half of 2019, according to the China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology (CALVT). The rocke
Wright-Patterson AFB OH (SPX) Mar 11, 2019 - The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), Aerospace Systems Directorate, High Speed Systems Division, in partnership with Generation Orbit Launch Services, Inc., is developing the X-60A vehicle. It
Huntsville AL (SPX) Mar 11, 2019 - Milking cows and baling hay might have more to do with rocket science than you think. Growing up on a working dairy farm in rural Breese, Illinois, NASA engineer Julie Bassler watched planes f
Wright-Patterson AFB OH (SPX) Mar 11, 2019 - The XQ-58A Valkyrie demonstrator, a long-range, high subsonic unmanned air vehicle completed its inaugural flight March 5, 2019 at Yuma Proving Grounds, Arizona. The Air Force Research Laboratory pa
Washington DC (UPI) Mar 11, 2019 - Ethyl alcohol, which can be used in a gasoline mix or on its own as vehicle fuel and as a beverage to fuel social events, will now power a rocket for commercial suborbital spaceflight. A compa
Cape Canaveral FL (SPX) Mar 11, 2019 - NASA passed a major milestone Friday in its goal to restore America's human spaceflight capability when SpaceX's Crew Dragon returned to Earth after a five-day mission docked to the International Sp
