Paris, France (SPX) Nov 27, 2018 - oint shareholders Airbus SE and Safran have proposed to the Board of Directors of ArianeGroup Andre-Hubert Roussel, 53, currently Head of Operations at Airbus Defence and Space, to succeed Alain Cha
Hong Kong (AFP) Nov 27, 2018 - A Chinese scientist's claim that he created the world's first genetically-edited babies has shone a spotlight on what critics say are lax regulatory controls and ethical standards behind a series of headline-grabbing biomedical breakthroughs in China.
Zurich, Switzerland (SPX) Nov 26, 2018 - Australia's leading rocket company, Gilmour Space Technologies, has signed a long-term collaboration and supply agreement with global launch industry supplier, RUAG Space. The memorandum of ag
Paris (ESA) Nov 26, 2018 - Vega is proving its reliability. Based on this heritage, ESA and European industry are building new elements that will increase Vega's performance, capabilities and flexibility from mid-2019.
London, UK (SPX) Nov 26, 2018 - Strains of the bacterium Enterobacter, similar to newly found opportunistic infectious organisms seen in a few hospital settings, have been identified on the International Space Station (ISS). The s
Moscow (AFP) Nov 25, 2018 - The Russian space agency Roscosmos, whose reputation has already been hit by the failure of a Soyuz rocket last month, was on Sunday targeted by the country's audit court over financial irregularities including stolen billions.
(UPI) Nov 24, 2018 - NASA has set a Jan. 7 dated for an sending an unmmanned SpaceX capsule on its maiden voyage to the International Space Station.
Alicante, Spain (SPX) Nov 23, 2018 - MIURA 1, the suborbital rocket developed by PLD Space, will be launched from El Arenosillo Experimentation Center (CEDEA), of INTA, during the third quarter of 2019. This technological demonstrato
Montreal, Canada (SPX) Nov 23, 2018 - According to Euroconsult's latest report, China Space Industry 2018, the China space value chain had an estimated size of more than $16 billion in 2017, with the downstream market accounting for jus
Jiuquan (XNA) Nov 21, 2018 - China launched a new space environment research satellite and four nanosatellites on a Long March-2D carrier rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China at 7:40 a.m. Tuesday.
Washington DC (SPX) Nov 21, 2018 - Mounted on a rotating arm in a space simulation vacuum chamber, two probes collect data from the exhaust plume of a Hall Effect Thruster that will be operated for over 5,000 hours. Wrapped in
Kourou, French Guiana (ESA) Nov 21, 2018 - Arianespace has launched a Vega rocket to deliver an Earth observation satellite into orbit for the Kingdom of Morocco. Liftoff of Vega's 13th mission from Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French
Washington (AFP) Nov 20, 2018 - The US space agency has ordered a sweeping safety review of operations and workplace culture, including drug-free policies, at Boeing and SpaceX, two companies working to send astronauts to space, US media said Tuesday.
Moscow (Sputnik) Nov 20, 2018 - The Progress MS-10 space freighter docked on Sunday with the International Space Stations (ISS) in an automatic mode, the Mission Control Center said. On Friday, the Russian Soyuz-FG launch ve
Paris (ESA) Nov 20, 2018 - ESA's Neosat platform developed with Airbus - Eurostar Neo - has found its first mission; supplying two satellites for a role currently being performed by three. Eurostar Neo's first home in s
Davis CA (SPX) Nov 20, 2018 - EXPLORER, the world's first medical imaging scanner that can capture a 3-D picture of the whole human body at once, has produced its first scans. The brainchild of UC Davis scientists Simon Ch
