Paris (ESA) Jun 26, 2014 - Yesterday, the ship and crew aiming to recover Europe's unmanned IXV spacecraft in November had a practice run off the coast of Tuscany, Italy. They retrieved a prototype of the suborbital IXV
Washington DC (SPX) Jun 26, 2014 - NASA completed the most complex and flight-like test of the parachute system for the agency's Orion spacecraft on Wednesday. A test version of Orion touched down safely in the Arizona desert a
Bethesda MD (SPX) Jun 25, 2014 - A few days ago the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) released its findings related to unauthorized access to NASA's technologies by foreign entities. Auditors found weaknesses in NASA's ex
Moscow (Voice of Russia) Jun 24, 2014 - The moon will welcome its first tourists as early as 2017, Space Adventures, a US-based space tourism company, said Wednesday. According to Space Adventures' head Tom Shelley, two brave folks have a
Moscow (Voice of Russia) Jun 24, 2014 - United Launch Alliance (ULA), the US joint venture providing space launch services in the US, has signed a number of contracts to find a replacement for the Russian-made RD-180 rocket engine, which
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Jun 24, 2014 - Entrepreneur and inventor Elon Musk has some travel suggestions that are out of this world. The SpaceX CEO known as the brains behind the Tesla electric car says he wants to take humans to Mars duri
Washington DC (SPX) Jun 23, 2014 - Anyone who remembers dialup internet can sympathize with the plight of NASA mission controllers. Waiting for images to arrive from deep space, slowly downloading line by line, can be a little like t
Huntsville AL (SPX) Jun 20, 2014 - NASA engineers recently went on an auricle ride as a scale model of the Space Launch System (SLS), including solid rocket motors, was fired - giving an earful of information about how low- and hi
Kourou, French Guiana (ESA) Jun 19, 2014 - The upcoming Arianespace Soyuz mission for O3b Networks has entered its next phase of preparations, as fueling is now underway in French Guiana with this global satellite service provider's second b
Washington DC (SPX) Jun 19, 2014 - All the superlatives associated with Orion's first mission this year - farthest a spacecraft for humans has gone in 40 years, largest heat shield, safest vehicle ever built - can be dazzling, no dou
Houston TX (SPX) Jun 19, 2014 - The six-member Expedition 40 crew is counting down to a Thursday morning spacewalk. Meanwhile, the orbital residents are conducting an array of international science and station maintenance tasks.
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Jun 18, 2014 - So, Russia hasn't stopped operations on the International Space Station. Soyuz spacecraft will continue to carry cosmonauts and astronauts there, despite growing international tensions on Earth. We
Amsterdam, Netherlands (SPX) Jun 18, 2014 - Airbus Group and Safran are further strengthening their relationship to propose a new family of competitive, versatile and efficient space launchers, to serve both commercial and institutional needs
Singapore (AFP) June 18, 2014 - Europe's satellite launch industry needs to be overhauled to keep up with tough challenges from US rival SpaceX and other emerging competitors, the head of European satellite giant Arianespace has said.
Singapore (SPX) Jun 18, 2014 - At CommunicAsia 2014 from June 17 to 20, Arianespace confirms its predominant position among satellite manufacturers and operators in the Asia-Pacific region with more than 60% market share. This ye
Centennial CO (SPX) Jun 18, 2014 - United Launch Alliance (ULA) has signed commercial contracts with multiple American companies to investigate next-generation liquid oxygen/hydrocarbon first stage propulsion concepts. In collaborati
