Kourou, French Guiana (ESA) Jan 21, 2016 - Assembly of the Ariane 5 for Arianespace's year-opening mission from French Guiana is now complete, following encapsulation of the Intelsat 29e satellite in its protective payload fairing at the Spa
Huntsville AL (SPX) Jan 20, 2016 - NASA's Orion spacecraft is another step closer to launching on its first mission to deep space atop the agency's Space Launch System (SLS) rocket. On Jan. 13, technicians at Michoud Assembly Facilit
Houston TX (SPX) Jan 20, 2016 - One of the most triumphant moments in the book and recent movie The Martian comes when lead character, Mark Watney, successfully grows a potato crop on Mars. It's more than food for survival; he's a
Kourou, French Guiana (ESA) Jan 20, 2016 - The launch vehicle for Arianespace's first mission of 2016 has received its payload, as the initial Intelsat EpicNG high-throughput satellite has been mated to the Ariane 5 at the Spaceport in Frenc
Beijing (XNA) Jan 19, 2016 - China's space industry revealed that its new rockets would be used for an unmanned moon mission capable of returning soil samples, as well as a delivery vehicle for a new space station. China'
Dulles VA (SPX) Jan 19, 2016 - Orbital ATK has been awarded a $47 million contract from the U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center Launch Systems Directorate for the development of a solid rocket propulsion system protot
Beijing (XNA) Jan 19, 2016 - China will send two new models of carrier rocket in the Long March series on their maiden space trips in 2016, the China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation (CASC) said on Saturday. The
Moscow (Sputnik) Jan 19, 2016 - Kimiya Yui, a Japanese astronaut and a retired Lieutenant-Colonel in the Japan Air Self-Defense Force said he had learned the Russian language to serve as a link between Japan and Russia, NHK report
Dulles, Va. (UPI) Jan 19, 2016 - Orbital ATK has announced a successful test of a 3D-printed hypersonic engine combustor at NASA Langley Research Center.
Washington DC (SPX) Jan 18, 2016 - Today's students are the engineers and scientists of the future, so NASA and Texas Instruments (TI) are teaming up and using the one-year International Space Station mission to inspire students to s
Washington DC (SPX) Jan 18, 2016 - When Scott Kelly tweeted a picture of moldy leaves on the current crop of zinnia flowers aboard the International Space Station, it could have looked like the science was doomed. In fact, science wa
Los Angeles AFB CA (SPX) Jan 18, 2016 - The Space and Missile Systems Center has awarded the first two Other Transaction Agreements (OTAs) for shared public-private investments in Rocket Propulsion System (RPS) prototypes to SpaceX for de
Washington (UPI) Jan 17, 2016 - NASA astronaut and International Space Station Commander Scott Kelly has shared images of the first flower grown in space: a zinnia that recently came to bloom.
Los Angeles (AFP) Jan 17, 2016 - SpaceX's unmanned Falcon 9 rocket broke apart Sunday as it tried to land on a floating platform in the Pacific, marking the fourth such failure in the company's bid to recycle rockets.
Moscow (Sputnik) Jan 15, 2016 - Russian federal agency Roscosmos plans to develop a natural-gas-powered rocket engine. The federal space exploration program for 2016-2025 guarantees funding for the project. According to news
Miami (AFP) Jan 15, 2016 - The discovery of water in a US astronaut's helmet brought an early end Friday to the first ever galactic walkabout by his British colleague, astronaut Tim Peake, NASA said.
