Kourou, French Guiana (ESA) Jun 17, 2015 - Sentinel-2A, Europe's next Copernicus satellite in Space, is being readied by engineers from Airbus Defence and Space, the world's second largest space company, for a 23 June 2015 lift-off from Kour
Huntsville AL (SPX) Jun 17, 2015 - Ladies and gentlemen, we've started our engine. An RS-25 engine fired up for 500 seconds June 11 at NASA's Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi. Four RS-25 engines will power N
Washington DC (SPX) Jun 17, 2015 - NASA's Launch Services Program has issued a Request for Proposal (RFP) for new commercial Venture Class Launch Services (VCLS) for small satellites, often called CubeSats or nanosatellites, and expe
Washington DC (SPX) Jun 17, 2015 - Near the end of the movie Apollo 13, which depicts the harrowing journey of the three astronauts aboard the aborted 1970 lunar mission, the tension mounts in textbook fashion. As the spacecraft hurd
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Jun 17, 2015 - A robotic cryobot, designed to tunnel down through thick ice caps and penetrate subterranean seas, is undergoing tests on the Matanuska glacier in Alaska. It paves the way towards one day explorin
Paris (SPX) Jun 17, 2015 - Airbus Safran Launchers (ASL) has reached an agreement with the French State and CNES, the French space agency, to transfer CNES's stake in Arianespace. After the completion of all regulatory consul
Moscow (Sputnik) Jun 16, 2015 - China's new hypersonic weaponry may have the potential to neutralize US strategic missile defenses due to its unparalleled capability of maneuvering to avoid tracking by radars and interceptors, mil
El Segundo CA (SPX) Jun 16, 2015 - Boeing is on contract to build ABS-8, the third all-electric propulsion 702SP (small platform) satellite for ABS, a commercial satellite provider based in Bermuda and Hong Kong. This satellite will
Melbourne, Australia (TC) Jun 16, 2015 - A new kind of spacecraft that sails on sunlight has just been successfully deployed above Earth. The LightSail satellite yesterday overcame a series of glitches to unfurl its solar sails, a propulsi
Anchorage AK (SPX) Jun 16, 2015 - Garvey Spacecraft Corporation (GSC) has announced its selection of Alaska Aerospace Corporation's Pacific Spaceport Complex - Alaska (PSCA) on Kodiak Island as host range for the next phase of the c
Moscow (Sputnik) Jun 16, 2015 - A delegation of ?he Russian Academy of Sciences representatives visited the US and held talks on cooperation with American scientists. A number of joint projects will be implemented in the near futu
Moscow, Russia (Sputnik) Jun 11, 2015 - Russia's Mission Control adjusted on Monday the orbit of the International Space Station (ISS) to evade collision with debris of a defunct US satellite, a Mission Control official said. Accord
Washington DC (SPX) Jun 11, 2015 - NASA has approved a $30 million milestone payment to SpaceX under the agency's Commercial Crew Integrated Capability (CCiCap) agreement with the company following a recent and successful pad abort t
Moscow (AFP) June 11, 2015 - Three astronauts landed in Kazakhstan on Thursday, safely returning to Earth after their flight back home was delayed for a month by a Russian rocket failure.
Kourou, French Guiana (ESA) Jun 11, 2015 - The two satellite passengers for Arianespace's third Ariane 5 mission in 2015 are advancing through their pre-flight preparations, with MSG-4 and Star One C4 each completing separate fit-check proce
Moscow, Russia (Sputnik) Jun 10, 2015 - Russian space agency Roscosmos said on Tuesday it has rescheduled launches to the International Space Station (ISS) to include six more for 2015. The decision was made after the Progress M27-M
