Kourou, French Guiana (ESA) Apr 21, 2016 - With just two days to liftoff, the next Sentinel for Europe's environmental monitoring programme in now poised high in the launch tower at Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. A Soyuz
Aurora CO (SPX) Apr 21, 2016 - In a discovery with implications for long-term spaceflight and future missions to Mars, a researcher at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus has found that mice flown aboard the space
Paris (AFP) April 21, 2016 - Europe is set to launch two satellites on Friday with very important missions: one will track environmental damage to Earth, while the other will test a mainstay of physics theory.
Moscow (Sputnik) Apr 20, 2016 - China is ready to share radiation-resistant electronic components used in spacecraft construction with Russia in exchange for the technology of building liquid-fuel rocket engines, a senior Roscosmo
Beijing (XNA) Apr 20, 2016 - Chinese scientists on Sunday said they have successfully developed early-stage mouse embryos in space for the first time on a retrievable microgravity satellite set to return to Earth sometime next
Sandusky OH (SPX) Apr 20, 2016 - Engineers and technicians moved the Orion service module test article into the Reverberant Acoustic Test Facility at NASA Glenn Research Center's Plum Brook Station in Sandusky, Ohio on Friday, Apri
Kennedy Space Center FL (SPX) Apr 20, 2016 - From Apollo through the Space Shuttle, NASA has relied on liquid hydrogen to fuel the upper stages of its launch vehicles. Hydrogen is the most efficient propellant there is: measure for measure, it
Miami (AFP) April 20, 2016 - Lab mice that spent just two weeks in orbit showed early signs of liver damage upon returning to Earth, raising concern about what long-duration spaceflight might do to humans, researchers said Wednesday.
New York (Sputnik) Apr 20, 2016 - The ambitious Starshot project aims to send a nanocraft to search for extraterrestrial life in another solar system, powered by a 100 gigawatt laser from Earth. On Tuesday, the 55th anniversar
Paris (ESA) Apr 20, 2016 - On 23 April 2001, Italian ESA Umberto Guidoni made history as the first European astronaut to board the International Space Station. Guidoni had been launched on four days earlier, on 19 April, on S
Washington DC (SPX) Apr 20, 2016 - NASA has selected Aerojet Rocketdyne, Inc. of Redmond, Washington, to design and develop an advanced electric propulsion system that will significantly advance the nation's commercial space capabili
Colorado Springs CO (SPX) Apr 19, 2016 - The collaboration between French commercial launch service provider Arianespace and its Russian partners continues normally amid Western sanctions imposed on Russia, President of Arianespace, Inc. C
Beijing (XNA) Apr 19, 2016 - The re-entry capsule of China's first retrievable microgravity satellite, SJ-10, returned safely to Earth on Monday, marking a solid step forward in space science research and application. The recov
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Apr 18, 2016 - Although men often outnumber women in science fields, women comprise the majority of a USC-led team that is the first in the world to seek therapeutic drug discovery from fungi launched into space.
Houston TX (SPX) Apr 17, 2016 - Following extraction from Dragon, the Bigelow Expandable Activity Module (BEAM) was installed to the International Space Station at 5:36 a.m. EDT. At the time of installation, the space station was
Moscow (Sputnik) Apr 15, 2016 - The development of the replacement for the Russian RD-180 rocket engines is going well and as planned, United Launch Alliance (ULA) President and CEO Tory Bruno told Sputnik on the margins of the 32
