Promontory UT (SPX) May 05, 2016 - A full-scale, test version of the booster for NASA's new rocket, the Space Launch System, will fire up for the second of two qualification ground tests June 28 at prime contractor Orbital ATK's test
Amsterdam, Netherlands (SPX) May 05, 2016 - Airbus Group SE and Safran have signed an agreement for the second and final phase of their 50/50 joint venture, Airbus Safran Launchers. Both companies will contribute to the current joint pr
Moscow (Sputnik) May 04, 2016 - US rocket engineers are currently checking all Russian-made RD-180 engines following the determined anomaly that caused premature booster shutdown in the March 22 launch of the Cygnus spacecraft, Un
Brussels (XNA) May 04, 2016 - In recent years, the development of China's space technology is extraordinary, impressive, which is favorable to build, together with other countries, a better world for all men of this planet, sa
Moscow (Sputnik) May 03, 2016 - There are at least four reasons why Washington should not ban Russian RD-180 engines, Loren B. Thompson and Constance Baroudos of the Lexington Institute pointed out. Whether US Senator John McCain,
Paris (ESA) May 02, 2016 - In a live space-to-ground test of human-robot cooperation, ESA astronaut Tim Peake will control a rover on Earth on Friday from the International Space Station, helping prepare for future exploratio
Paris (ESA) May 02, 2016 - ESA astronaut Tim Peake and his crewmates Yuri Malenchenko and Tim Kopra will return to Earth on 18 June, giving them almost two more weeks more in space than their original mission. Each Inte
Kennedy Space Center FL (SPX) Apr 29, 2016 - NASA's commercial crew astronauts Suni Williams and Eric Boe tried out a new generation of training simulators at the Boeing facility in St. Louis Tuesday that will prepare them for launch, flight a
Tucson AZ (SPX) Apr 29, 2016 - Vector Space Systems, a Micro Satellite space launch enterprise comprised of new-space industry veterans from SpaceX, Virgin Galactic, McDonnell Douglas and Sea Launch, reports it has secured more t
Moscow (AFP) April 29, 2016 - Russia's space agency on Friday announced that the return to Earth of three astronauts currently on the International Space Station will be delayed by nearly two weeks in June.
Washington DC (Sputnik) Apr 29, 2016 - The US government will move its space assets to deep space orbits within several years, leaving the launching of satellites into low earth orbit to commercial companies, National Aeronautics and Spa
Washington DC (Sputnik) Apr 29, 2016 - The US space program is close to ending its dependence on Russia's Syouz to launch American astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) chief Charles Bolden said.
Baltimore MD (SPX) Apr 29, 2016 - The U.S. Air Force has awarded two contracts totaling $1.48 million to the Energetics Research Group, based within Johns Hopkins University's Whiting School of Engineering, to help set the stage for
Promontory UT (SPX) Apr 29, 2016 - A full-scale, test version of the booster for NASA's new rocket, the Space Launch System, will fire up for the second of two qualification ground tests June 28 at prime contractor Orbital ATK's test
Washington DC (Sputnik) Apr 29, 2016 - The US Congress armed services committee voted to double the purchase of Russian-made rocket engines in a Thursday vote, US media reported. The United States has been relying on Russia-made RD-180 r
Beijing (Sputnik) Apr 28, 2016 - China has successfully launched the Kunpeng-1B sounding rocket from a launch pad in Danzhou City in the southern Chinese Hainan Province. The research rocket, which is due to take measurements
