Houston TX (SPX) May 27, 2015 - The International Space Station Program will take the next step in expanding a robust commercial market in low-Earth orbit when work continues Wednesday, May 27, to prepare the orbiting laboratory f
Bloomington IN (SPX) May 27, 2015 - Why do some discoveries fade into obscurity while others blaze a new trail the moment they are published? More mysteriously, why do some research papers remain dormant for years and then suddenly ex
Moscow (Sputnik) May 27, 2015 - The recent loss of the Proton-M rocket will push up launch costs and affect the overall number of contracts, the head of the Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center said Friday.
Kourou, French Guiana (ESA) May 27, 2015 - Arianespace's heavy-lift launcher has moved to its launch zone in French Guiana for the May 27 Ariane 5 flight with DirecTV-15 for DIRECTV and SKY Mexico's SKY Mexico-1. During activity at the
Kourou, French Guiana (ESA) May 27, 2015 - Arianespace is keeping up its 2015 mission cadence with the go-ahead for a dual-payload Ariane 5 launch next week from French Guiana that will orbit the DirecTV-15 and SKY Mexico-1 direct-to-home re
Beijing (XNA) May 27, 2015 - China's space capabilities are ranked the fourth in the world, and the gap between the leading powers is narrowing, according to a report issued recently by a Chinese research organization. Ch
Washington DC (SPX) May 25, 2015 - NASA is seeking proposals from universities for early stage technology development that will support the agency's long-term plans for human exploration of Mars and scientific study of our solar syst
Lake Ouareau, Quebec (UPI) May 25, 2015 - A Canadian inventor has set the record for farthest journey by hoverboard, Guinness World Records has announced.
Tokyo (XNA) May 25, 2015 - Japan's unmanned cargo spacecraft Kounotori, which delivers supplies to the International Space Station (ISS), may be redesigned to save cost and for multipurpose use. Auto parts may even be u
Cleveland, OH (SPX) May 22, 2015 - When you need to test hardware designed to operate in the vast reaches of space, you start in a vacuum chamber. NASA's Glenn Research Center in Cleveland has many of them, but Vacuum Chamber 5 (VF-5
Kourou, French Guiana (ESA) May 22, 2015 - Another Ariane 5 has completed its initial build-up at the Spaceport in French Guiana, marking a major milestone in preparations for Arianespace's third heavy-lift mission of 2015 - which will orbit
Mexico City (Sputnik) May 22, 2015 - A $60-million penalty stopped Mexico from calling off the launch of MexSat-1 communication satellite on Russian Proton-M launch vehicle, Deputy Minister of Communications and Transport of Mexico Mon
Moscow (Sputnik) May 22, 2015 - What lies on the dark side of the moon? The ruined civilization of our lunar forbearers? A pile of overplayed Pink Floyd records?
Washington DC (SPX) May 22, 2015 - With help from NASA, a small research satellite to test technology for in-space solar propulsion launched into space Wednesday aboard an Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida
Los Angeles CA (SPX) May 22, 2015 - New technologies allow us to go back to the Moon at a fraction the cost of Apollo, and now, even private efforts like the Google X Prize contestants are underway to land and execute exploration miss
Moscow (Sputnik) May 21, 2015 - Over the last five years, there have been seven Proton carrier rocket failures. The latest took place on May 16, when a Proton-M was to deliver cargo to the ISS, but after reaching space lost its te
