Promontory UT (SPX) Dec 17, 2018 - Northrop Grumman along with NASA and Lockheed Martin performed a ground firing test of the abort motor for NASA's Orion spacecraft Launch Abort System (LAS) at Northrop Grumman's facility in Promont
Moscow (Sputnik) Dec 17, 2018 - The Russian Progress MS-11 cargo spacecraft will for the second time fly to the International Space Station (ISS) under the three-hour scheme, circling Earth twice, in March 2019, a source in the ae
Los Angeles (AFP) Dec 14, 2018 - Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo flew higher than it ever has before, surpassing what the US Air Force considers the boundary of space, and marking the first manned flight to space from US soil since
Moscow (Sputnik) Dec 14, 2018 - Earlier, cosmonauts sent to earth photos of the meteoroid protection plates which were cut off from the holed Soyuz spacecraft to be checked for the traces of a drill, a source in the space industry
Huntsville AL (SPX) Dec 13, 2018 - Aerojet Rocketdyne will design propulsion concepts and technologies for a novel ground-launched tactical weapon system under a U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) contract potenti
Moscow (Sputnik) Dec 13, 2018 - Russian space agency Roscosmos will submit the project of the creation of a super-heavy rocket for an unmanned mission around the Moon for the government consideration by January 15, two sources in
Washington (UPI) Dec 13, 2018 - Virgin Galactic made history Thursday by flying to the edge of Earth's atmosphere, taking its boldest step yet in space tourism.
Beijing (XNA) Dec 13, 2018 - China's Chang'e-4 probe decelerated and entered the lunar orbit Wednesday, completing a vital step on its way to make the first-ever soft landing on the far side of the moon, the China National Spac
Edwards AFB CA (SPX) Dec 13, 2018 - A winged spacecraft will soon take off with four NASA-supported technology experiments onboard. Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo will separate from the WhiteKnightTwo twin-fuselage carrier aircraft an
Washington DC (SPX) Dec 12, 2018 - New work from the Carnegie Supernova Project provides the best-yet calibrations for using Type Ia supernovae to measure cosmic distances, which has implications for our understanding of how fast the
Moscow (AFP) Dec 12, 2018 - Using knives and shears, a pair of Russian spacewalkers Tuesday cut samples of material around a mysterious hole in a Soyuz spacecraft docked on the International Space Station that a Moscow official suggested could have been deliberate sabotage.
Washington (AFP) Dec 12, 2018 - Virgin Galactic is preparing for a new flight test Thursday that aims to fly higher and faster than before toward the edge of space.
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Dec 12, 2018 - Australia's national science agency, CSIRO, is supporting NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft as it enters interstellar space - becoming only the second spacecraft, after its twin Voyager 1, to reach this m
Wallops Island VA (SPX) Dec 11, 2018 - Two NASA sounding rockets successfully flew over the Norwegian Sea early in the morning December 8 carrying an experiment to study the electrodynamics of the polar cusp. The Twin Rockets to In
Moscow (Sputnik) Dec 11, 2018 - Russia's Roscosmos, NASA, the European Space Agency, and China's National Space Administration have all made plans to send manned missions to the Red Planet sometime in the next few decades. However
Pasadena CA (JPL) Dec 11, 2018 - For the second time in history, a human-made object has reached the space between the stars. NASA's Voyager 2 probe now has exited the heliosphere - the protective bubble of particles and magnetic f
