Beijing (Sputnik) Mar 07, 2016 - China plans to land a rover on Mars when the opportunity presents itself in 2020, the country's chief aerospace engineer said Friday. Ye Peijian, the chief designer of the country's state luna
Miami (AFP) March 5, 2016 - US astronaut Scott Kelly said Friday he is battling fatigue and super-sensitive skin, but is back to his normal height after nearly a year in space.
Cape Canaveral FL (AFP) Mar 05, 2016 - SpaceX on Friday blasted off its Falcon 9 rocket carrying a communications satellite to a distant orbit, before attempting to land the first stage of the rocket on an ocean platform. The rocke
Hampton VA (SPX) Mar 04, 2016 - Engineers at NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, are preparing for a series of water-impact tests to evaluate the Orion spacecraft and crew safety when they return from deep-space m
Washington DC (Sputnik) Mar 04, 2016 - Early suspension of US reliance on the Russian RD-180 rocket engines to deliver heavy payloads into space will cost US taxpayers as much as $5 billion, Air Force Secretary Deborah Lee James told the
Beijing (XNA) Mar 04, 2016 - Chang'e-3, China's first lunar lander, has been operating on the moon for over two years, the longest time for an active probe, according to a Chinese scientist. The probe has exceeded its ope
Bengaluru, India (SPX) Mar 04, 2016 - An American company is holding discussions with Antrix Corporation to put into orbit its communication satellite, using India's heavy rocket Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV), the gover
Moscow (Sputnik) Mar 03, 2016 - A nuclear engine currently being developed in Russia by the nuclear agency Rosatom and the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) will allow a spaceship to reach Mars in an unprecedentedly short p
Beijing (Sputnik) Mar 03, 2016 - China in the next five years will launch 110 Long March rockets, a member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference National Committee said Wednesday. According to Liang Xiaoho
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Mar 02, 2016 - After months of speculation, it's official. The crew of Shenzhou 11 will live aboard the Tiangong 2 space laboratory for 30 days. Add more time in space for them to fly to the laboratory and come
Dzhezkazgan, Kazakhstan (NASA) Mar 02, 2016 - NASA astronaut and Expedition 46 Commander Scott Kelly and his Russian counterpart Mikhail Kornienko returned to Earth Tuesday after a historic 340-day mission aboard the International Space Station
Dulles VA (SPX) Mar 02, 2016 - Orbital ATK has conducted a structural qualification test January 26 on its abort motor case that is being manufactured for use on NASA's Orion spacecraft. Orbital ATK's launch abort motor is integr
Dzhezkazgan, Kazakhstan (AFP) March 2, 2016 - US astronaut Scott Kelly and Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko returned to Earth Wednesday after almost a year in space in a ground-breaking experiment foreshadowing a potential manned mission to Mars.
Sacramento CA (SPX) Mar 02, 2016 - The U.S. Air Force selected Aerojet Rocketdyne, a subsidiary of Aerojet Rocketdyne Holdings, Inc., and United Launch Alliance (ULA) to share in a public-private partnership to develop jointly the AR
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Mar 02, 2016 - Spending nearly a year in space, 249 miles from Earth, could be a lonely prospect, but an office at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, made sure astronaut Scott Kelly could r
Washington DC (Sputnik) Mar 02, 2016 - The US Air Force has awarded a major US aerospace corporation a contract worth more than $100 million to build a new rocket propulsion system to end American dependence on the Russian RD-180 engine,
