Paris (ESA) Oct 26, 2015 - A rare reentry of a suspected rocket body from a very high orbit next month offers an excellent opportunity to gather data to improve our knowledge of how objects interact with Earth's atmosphere.
Kourou, French Guiana (ESA) Oct 26, 2015 - Arianespace has received the sixth Ariane 5 for launch in 2015, keeping the company on track for a record year of mission activity with its complete launcher family at the Spaceport in French Guiana
Durham NC (SPX) Oct 23, 2015 - Who says class has to be all about lectures and labs? Andres Aragoneses, a quantum optics researcher at Duke, has created a class called Science and Science Fiction in conjunction with the Osher L
Moscow (Sputnik) Oct 23, 2015 - The United States should immediately lift the ban on the purchases of Russian-made rocket engines for strategic security purposes, according to The Diplomat magazine. In an article published
Washington DC (SPX) Oct 23, 2015 - For the first time in almost 40 years, a NASA human-rated rocket has completed all steps needed to clear a critical design review (CDR). The agency's Space Launch System (SLS) is the first vehicle d
Washington DC (SPX) Oct 23, 2015 - Three hundred eighty-three days in space is a long time - time enough to lose bone mass and muscle strength - and NASA is offering up to $15,000 for innovative ideas on how to keep astronauts on lon
Houston TX (SPX) Oct 21, 2015 - Remember those old math questions you had in Algebra class? Where water is entering a container at a certain rate and leaving at a different rate and you need to figure out when it'll be empty? Well
Washington (AFP) Oct 21, 2015 - Welcome to the future.
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 21, 2015 - It was 10 years ago when Barb Sande gazed upward to watch the last Titan rocket soar into a cloudless, blue sky from its launch pad at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California. My husband and I attend
Bethesda MD (SPX) Oct 20, 2015 - Astronautics is the discipline of designing, building, and operating space vehicles. This field of endeavor addresses the design of space missions, spacecraft and in-orbit operations. Related techno
New Delhi (IANS) Oct 20, 2015 - India will launch six satellites from Singapore, including a dedicated 500kg earth observation spacecraft, in mid-December, a top space official said on Friday. The 500kg dedicated satellite
Moscow, Russia (SPX) Oct 20, 2015 - Rocket and Space Corporation (RSC) Energia has taken out a patent for the invention of a transformable habitable module for the Russian Segment of the International Space Station (ISS) and future sp
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Oct 20, 2015 - In less than a year, China is expected to launch the Tiangong 2 space laboratory. Despite its name, Tiangong 2 is expected to be a small space station, just like its predecessor, Tiangong 1. With it
Washington (AFP) Oct 20, 2015 - The dog-walking drones and flying cars of Marty McFly's fictional 21st century are still the stuff of sci-fi in real-life 2015 - but savvy brands from Pepsi to Toyota have rolled out gadgets and gimmicks tapping into Back to the Future nostalgia.
Beijing (XNA) Oct 20, 2015 - China on early Saturday morning put a new communication satellite APSTAR-9 into orbit in a commercial mission by the Long March-3B carrier rocket from the southwestern Xichang Satellite Launch Cen
Rochelle Park, NJ (SPX) Oct 20, 2015 - ORBCOMM Inc reports that ORBCOMM and SpaceX plan to launch eleven OG2 satellites from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on the next launch of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket targeted to take pl
