
Air Force contracts SpaceX for satellite launch
Washington (UPI) Jun 21, 2018 - Space Exploration Technologies Corp., or SpaceX, will send a satellite into orbit atop its Falcon Heavy rocket in 2020, the U.S. Air Force announced on Thursday.
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Washington (UPI) Jun 21, 2018 - Space Exploration Technologies Corp., or SpaceX, will send a satellite into orbit atop its Falcon Heavy rocket in 2020, the U.S. Air Force announced on Thursday.
Jun 21, 2018

Lampoldshausen, Germany (SPX) Jun 20, 2018 - A full-scale demonstrator of the thrust chamber for an upper-stage rocket engine incorporating the newest propulsion technologies has successfully passed first hot firing tests at the DLR German Aer
Jun 20, 2018

College Station TX (SPX) Jun 20, 2018 - On June 18, 1983, 35 years ago, Sally Ride became the first American woman to launch into space, riding the Space Shuttle STS-7 flight with four other crew members. Only five years earlier, in 1978,
Jun 20, 2018

Moscow (Sputnik) Jun 20, 2018 - The US government is slated to receive one of two batches of Russian-made rocket engines in the second quarter of 2018, according to a leading Russian rocket designer, at nearly the same point when
Jun 20, 2018

Beijing (XNA) Jun 20, 2018 - The China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology is known as a prestigious developer of carrier rockets, but in the near future, it may acquire a new tag: China's first space tourism provider. E
Jun 20, 2018

Cleveland OH (SPX) Jun 20, 2018 - Our job at NASA Glenn is to advance technologies that have the potential to change the way we explore space and also change our lives on Earth. Teams of scientists have partnered with industry to pr
Jun 20, 2018

Moscow (Sputnik) Jun 20, 2018 - Russia's S7 Space, part of the S7 Group, plans to build a plant in Samara to produce Soviet-designed NK-33 and NK-43 rocket engines for super heavy-lift launch vehicles and intends to purchase produ
Jun 20, 2018

Washington DC (SPX) Jun 19, 2018 - The following is a statement from NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine on Monday's signing of Space Policy Directive-3 by President Donald Trump: NASA strongly supports the White House's contin
Jun 19, 2018

Bethesda MD (SPX) Jun 19, 2018 - Space station astronauts have to be high-risk-taking individuals. They volunteer to fly from the Earth to the International Space Station (ISS) onboard a Russian launch vehicle that has a less-tha
Jun 19, 2018

Washington (UPI) Jun 18, 2018 - Scientists have developed a new technique for controlling the shape of tissue. The method uses light to control protein activity, which dictates changes in tissue shape.
Jun 18, 2018

Paris (ESA) Jun 18, 2018 - The ESA Council met in Paris this past weeek to discuss the path towards the future exploitation of Ariane 6. In view of the progress made in the Ariane 6 programme, Participating States have
Jun 18, 2018

West Palm Beach FL (SPX) Jun 18, 2018 - Aerojet Rocketdyne recently achieved a significant milestone by successfully completing a series of hot-fire tests of an advanced, next-generation RL10 engine thrust chamber design that was built al
Jun 18, 2018

Edwards AFB CA (SPX) Jun 15, 2018 - Honeybee Robotics in Pasadena, California, flight tested its pneumatic sampler collection system, PlanetVac, on Masten Space Systems' Xodiac rocket on May 24, launching from Mojave, California, and
Jun 15, 2018

Washington (UPI) Jun 15, 2018 - After nearly four decades with NASA, including 22 years as an astronaut, Peggy Whitson is leaving the space agency. Her retirement is effective Friday, NASA announced.
Jun 15, 2018

Houston TX (SPX) Jun 15, 2018 - A new batch of science is headed to the International Space Station aboard the SpaceX Dragon on the company's 15th mission for commercial resupply services, scheduled for launch June 29 from NASA's
Jun 15, 2018

Tokyo (Sputnik) Jun 14, 2018 - Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) on Tuesday successfully tested a H-IIA Launch Vehicle with a new research satellite, according to the agency's live stream of the lift-off. The launch
Jun 14, 2018