Washington (UPI) Oct 3, 2016 - United Launch Alliance has been given an $860 million contract modification for work on the Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle for Delta IV and Atlas V rockets.
Miami (AFP) Oct 2, 2016 - The mysterious explosion of a SpaceX rocket last month took an odd turn with a cordial encounter between staff of Elon Musk's firm and fierce rival United Launch Alliance, The Washington Post reported.
San Francisco (AFP) Oct 2, 2016 - A high-profile Google event Tuesday is widely expected to show a new emphasis on hardware, challenging rivals Apple and Amazon and launching a new strategy for the online giant.
Guadalajara, Mexico (SPX) Sep 30, 2016 - Airbus Defence and Space and Neumann Space have signed the very first agreement for a hosted payload aboard the new Bartolomeo platform of the International Space Station (ISS) during this week's IA
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Sep 30, 2016 - Each time a rocket blasts off to deliver a primary payload into space, it typically does so with room to spare - a reality that got NASA engineer Joe Burt thinking. Why not exploit that unused
Kourou, French Guiana (ESA) Sep 30, 2016 - For its eighth mission of 2016, and the year's fifth Ariane 5 launch from the Guiana Space Center in French Guiana, Arianespace will orbit two satellites: Sky Muster II for the Australian operator n
Geelong, Australia (SPX) Sep 30, 2016 - A world-first Deakin University innovation will give surgeons the sense of touch while they drive a robot to conduct keyhole surgery via a computer. The HeroSurg robot is a major breakthrough to cur
Centennial CO (SPX) Sep 30, 2016 - United Launch Alliance (ULA) kicked off the 3-2-1 Liftoff! ULA Rocket Hardware Challenge today via GrabCAD Community Challenges, inviting participants to design a launch support attachment bracket f
Los Angeles AFB CA (SPX) Sep 30, 2016 - The Space and Missile Systems Center signed a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) with United Launch Alliance (ULA) as part of the company's effort to certify its new Vulcan launc
Huntsville AL (SPX) Sep 30, 2016 - Next summer, NASA engineers will push the limits of the fuel tanks that will power the agency's Space Launch System (SLS), the massive rocket that will take humans farther into deep space than we ev
San Francisco (AFP) Sept 29, 2016 - If the future is an array of possibilities ranging from catastrophic to divine, Elon Musk is working to increase the probability of good things happening.
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Sep 29, 2016 - With Tiangong 2 safely in orbit, attention is now shifting to the spacecraft that will soon meet it. The Shenzhou 11 spacecraft is expected to lift off at some point in mid-October, although China h
Beijing (XNA) Sep 28, 2016 - Chinese aerospace researchers are pushing the limits in a new sphere - near space - which promises superfast vehicles for passengers, business and military use. Nearly half of the 24 entries i
Moscow (Sputnik) Sep 28, 2016 - China's second space laboratory Tiangong-2 is in good condition and ready to start docking process with the manned spacecraft Shenzhou-11, local media reported Monday. Ten days after its launc
Beijing (XNA) Sep 28, 2016 - Chinese scientists on Sunday maneuvered the country's Tiangong-2 space lab to a preset orbit 393 kilometers above Earth's surface, in preparation for a planned docking with the Shenzhou-11 manned sp
Bethesda MD (SPX) Sep 28, 2016 - Over the past few years there has been a dramatic increase in low orbital activities. The government is increasingly concerned with the congestion within these orbits and the growing problem of orbi
