Moscow (RIA Novosti) Feb 20, 2014 - A full-scale mock-up of Russia's first large post-Soviet rocket has been rolled out to a launch pad at the Plesetsk space center. The mock-up of the Angara, built by the Khrunichev aerospace r
Kourou, French Guiana (ESA) Feb 20, 2014 - Arianespace and Italian company CGS S.p.A. announced the launch contract for the OPTSAT 3000 satellite today in Rome. Arianespace also announced that it had signed a launch contract with the Israeli
Kennedy Space Center FL (SPX) Feb 20, 2014 - About a hundred miles off the coast of San Diego, in the Pacific Ocean, a U.S. Navy ship's well deck filled with water as underway recovery operations began Feb. 18 on a test version of NASA's Orion
Washington (AFP) Feb 19, 2014 - It's just in fiction for now, but the avatar doctor, a virtual physician which consults and diagnoses through a smartphone app, is coming, says the author of a new medical thriller.
Kourou, French Guiana (ESA) Feb 19, 2014 - Pre-launch checkout is now underway in French Guiana with Amazonas 4A, one of two satellite passengers to be orbited on Arianespace's next mission with its workhorse heavy-lift Ariane 5 - which is s
Paris (ESA) Feb 18, 2014 - The clock is ticking: in 100 days ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst will be launched to the International Space Station with NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman and cosmonaut commander Maxim Surayev. Stra
Wallops Island VA (SPX) Feb 18, 2014 - Registration is open for NASA's seventh annual RockOn! workshop to be held June 14-19 at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Wallops Island, Va. This workshop, offered in partnership with the Co
Paris (AFP) Feb 18, 2014 - Arianespace rockets excel at lifting the heaviest payloads into space, but a new technology allowing for lighter satellites is causing another big bang for an already fast-changing industry.
Bethesda, MD (SPX) Feb 18, 2014 - Launchspace experts have been watching the launch vehicle industry for that past several decades. Of all the interesting aspects of this business, the one that stands out the most is the fact that i
Houston TX (SPX) Feb 17, 2014 - NASA and its international partners have appointed crew members for a 2016 mission to the International Space Station. NASA astronaut Jeff Williams is scheduled to launch in spring 2016 and re
Houston TX (SPX) Feb 17, 2014 - Boeing's Commercial Crew Program (CCP) recently completed a hardware design review and software safety test, bringing it closer to launching the Crew Space Transportation (CST)-100 spacecraft that w
Chicago IL (SPX) Feb 17, 2014 - From warp drives to hyperspace, science fiction has continuously borrowed from, and sometimes anticipated, the state of the art in scientific progress. This has resulted in the perception that scien
Baikonur, Kazakhstan (SPX) Feb 17, 2014 - International Launch Services (ILS), a leader in providing mission integration and launch services to the global commercial satellite industry, successfully launched the TURKSAT-4A satellite into or
Kourou, French Guiana (ESA) Feb 17, 2014 - The launcher for Arianespace's initial Vega flight of 2014 began its build-up this week at the Spaceport in French Guiana, marking the first step in a mission campaign that will lead to its orbiting
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Feb 17, 2014 - It's been a few days since China said that the embattled Yutu Moon rover had sent a transmission back to Earth. Yutu suffered a mechanical anomaly roughly four weeks ago, shortly before it entered a
Paris, France (SPX) Feb 16, 2014 - Airbus Defence and Space, number two worldwide in space technologies, has been awarded a 60-million-euro contract by the European Space Agency (ESA) to continue definition and feasibility studies in
