Beijing (XNA) Feb 05, 2019 - An experiment that saw the first-ever plant sprouting on the moon last month was born in a natural disaster that devastated China's cotton-industry almost three decades ago. Li Fuguang was one
Bengaluru (IANS) Feb 05, 2019 - The Indian Space Research Organisation is all set to launch its 40th communication satellite GSAT-31 on Wednesday from the spaceport in French Guiana. The satellite with a mission life of 15 y
Moscow (Sputnik) Feb 05, 2019 - Over 10 liters of water leaked from the toilet at the US segment of the International Space Station (ISS) on Friday and had to be collected across the segment by the crew using towels, a source in t
Hanover NH (SPX) Feb 05, 2019 - The heart's motion is so powerful that it can recharge devices that save our lives, according to new research from Dartmouth College. Using a dime-sized invention developed by engineers at the
Warwick UK (SPX) Feb 05, 2019 - A new compound based on Iridium, a rare metal which landed in the Gulf of Mexico 66 M years ago, hooked onto albumin, a protein in blood, can attack the nucleus of cancerous cells when switched on b
Moscow (Sputnik) Feb 04, 2019 - Russian State Space Corporation Roscosmos has finally approved the design of the Yenisei super-heavy class launch vehicle for future lunar missions, it will use the RD-180 and RD-171MB engines, a Ru
Daytona Beach FL (SPX) Feb 01, 2019 - A prototype spacecraft capable of hopping from one asteroid to another effectively transforms water into steam, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University student-researchers have reported. The sp
Promontory, UT (SPX) Feb 01, 2019 - NASA and its industry partners have completed manufacture and checkout of 10 motor segments that will power two of the largest solid propellant boosters ever built. The solid rocket fuel will
Beijing, China (SPX) Feb 01, 2019 - For the first time in history, Chinese scientists have launched a rocketsonde - a rocket designed to perform weather observations in areas beyond the range of weather balloons - from an unmanned sem
Bethesda, MD (SPX) Feb 01, 2019 - It seems everyone wants to go someplace in the Solar System. President Trump wants to go to the Moon. Elon Musk wants to go to Mars. Some want to go to an asteroid. Others just want to go someplace
Bengaluru, India (IANS) Feb 01, 2019 - The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) said on Thursday that it has launched a Human Space Flight Centre here. Human Space Flight Centre is operational now... The facility is next to I
Beijing (XNA) Jan 31, 2019 - China is going to send more than 50 spacecraft into space via over 30 launches this year, according to the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC) on Tuesday. The major missi
Beijing (XNA) Jan 31, 2019 - China's first seaborne rocket launch is scheduled for mid 2019 with a Long March-11 carrier rocket set to blast off in the Yellow Sea, said Jin Xin, deputy chief commander of the rocket. China
Beijing (XNA) Jan 30, 2019 - China plans to launch the third one of its large carrier rocket Long March-5 in July, said Yang Baohua, vice president of the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC) on Tuesday.
Kourou, French Guiana (ESA) Jan 30, 2019 - The first qualification model of the P120C solid-fuel motor, configured for Vega-C, was static fired yesterday on the test stand at Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana. Fully loaded with 142 t
Kourou, French Guiana (SPX) Jan 30, 2019 - For its first launch of 2019, Arianespace will orbit two telecommunications satellites using an Ariane 5 from the Guiana Space Center: Saudi Geostationary Satellite 1/Hellas Sat 4, a condosat for KA
