Greenbelt MD (SPX) Feb 01, 2016 - Gas station attendant, electronics installer, home inspector: is there any fix-it job that NASA's Robotic Refueling Mission (RRM) can't tackle during its four-year career? As NASA takes a break in R
Kourou, French Guiana (ESA) Jan 31, 2016 - The Ariane 5 for Arianespace's second flight of 2016 has completed its basic build-up, marking a key milestone as preparations advance for this early March mission from the Spaceport in French Guian
Baikonur, Kazakhstan (SPX) Jan 30, 2016 - International Launch Services has placed the EUTELSAT 9B satellite into geosynchronous transfer orbit on behalf of Eutelsat Communications of Paris, France. With this mission, ILS completed its 92nd
Washington DC (AFNS) Jan 29, 2016 - Everyone agrees the United States depends on space-based assets as part of the defense of the homeland and the ability to command and control forces worldwide, Air Force Secretary Deborah Lee James
Washington DC (Sputnik) Jan 29, 2016 - Despite John McCain's profound displeasure, US defense officials are not inclined to abandon the RD-180 Russian rocket engines until 2021 or 2022 earliest. Since the collapse of the Soviet Uni
Patrick AFB FL (SPX) Jan 29, 2016 - It's not common an astronaut must be rescued out of rough open waters after descending home to Earth in a crewed capsule but when those Space Race era days of human space flight return, a small Air
Pasadena CA (SPX) Jan 29, 2016 - Sure, Google's driverless car is pretty cool. But according to key leaders in the aerospace industry, much of the world's most innovative work is happening not in Silicon Valley but in the laborator
Washington (Sputnik) Jan 28, 2016 - US Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman John McCain announced during a hearing on Wednesday that he will introduce a bill aimed at ending the use of Russian rocket RD-180 engines. Tomorro
Washington (AFP) Jan 28, 2016 - The United States marked the 30th anniversary Thursday of the explosion of the Challenger space shuttle with a pledge to remember lost astronauts as it presses on toward Mars.
Houston TX (SPX) Jan 28, 2016 - Four red-and-white parachutes unfurled high above the desert near Coolidge, Arizona, recently during a test of the system that initially will be used to safely land SpaceX's Crew Dragon spacecraft c
Paris (UPI) Jan 28, 2016 - Airbus Safran Launchers has finalized the architecture for its Ariane 6 launch vehicle, announcing a maiden launch to take place in 2020.
Kourou, French Guiana (ESA) Jan 28, 2016 - Flight number 228 for the Ariane launcher, successfully placing a telecommunications satellite in its geostationary transfer orbit, took place today from the European spaceport in Kourou, French Gui
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Jan 27, 2016 - At some time this year, China will launch the Tiangong 2 space laboratory. It will look much like its predecessor, Tiangong 1: A stubby cylindrical crew module with a smaller service module at its r
Kourou, French Guiana (ESA) Jan 27, 2016 - Arianespace's first Ariane 5 for liftoff in 2016 has rolled out to the launch zone in French Guiana, clearing the way for tomorrow's mission at the service of this workhorse vehicle's leading commer
Tel Aviv, Israel (SPX) Jan 26, 2016 - Spacecom reports announced that Space-X has scheduled the launch of the AMOS-6 satellite for May 2016. AMOS-6, to be co-located with AMOS-2 and AMOS-3 at the 4 W prime orbital position, will provide
Huntsville AL (SPX) Jan 26, 2016 - 2016 is well underway. Another year over, another year begun. For the SLS program, it means we're even further past the halfway point toward launch readiness. It's been only four years since t
