Kourou, French Guiana (ESA) Jul 30, 2013 - Payload preparations for Arianespace's next Ariane 5 mission are moving into their full pace with the delivery of its second passenger - EUTELSAT 25B/ Es'hail 1 - to French Guiana, joining GSAT-7, w
Greenbelt, Md. (UPI) Jul 30, 2013 - NASA engineers say they are closing in on the cause of a water leak inside the spacesuit of Italy's first spacewalking astronaut that could have drowned him.
Pasadena CA (SPX) Jul 29, 2013 - NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., has selected ITT Exelis Information Systems, Herndon, Va., to operate and maintain the NASA Deep Space Network complex in Goldstone, Calif.; the n
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 29, 2013 - NASA has selected 12 proposals, including two from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., for study under Phase I of the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) Program, which aims to t
Washington DC (SPX) Jul 29, 2013 - A Brooklyn, NY, based space company Final Frontier Design (FFD) has unveiled their new 3G space suit at a NASA event on Capitol Hill. FFD was chosen by NASA to represent small businesses at
Kourou, French Guiana (ESA) Jul 29, 2013 - Today's 70th flight of Arianespace's heavy-lift launcher orbited Europe's largest ever telecommunications satellite, Alphasat, and India's latest meteorological spacecraft, INSAT-3D, on the third Ar
Moscow (Voice of Russia) Jul 29, 2013 - A Soyuz-U rocket carrying a Progress M-20M space freighter lifted off early on Sunday from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan on a resupply mission to the International Space Station (ISS), Rus
Eindhoven, Netherlands / North Brabant (AFP) July 28, 2013 - From cancer-busting ultrasound techniques to ways to boost vitamins in tomatoes, Dutch tech-hub Eindhoven's avalanche of patents has just earned it the crown of most inventive city in the world.
Moscow (UPI) Jul 28, 2013 - An unmanned cargo ship has docked at the International Space Station to deliver nearly 3 tons of supplies, Russia's space agency said.
Kourou, French Guiana (ESA) Jul 26, 2013 - Flawless launch of Alphasat, Europe's largest and most sophisticated telecom satellite. Alphasat, Europe's largest and most sophisticated telecommunications satellite, was launched into its planned
Cape Canveral FL (SPX) Jul 26, 2013 - Two NASA astronauts conducted flight suit evaluations inside a fully outfitted test version of The Boeing Company's CST-100 spacecraft July 22, the first time the world got a glimpse of the crew cap
Moscow (UPI) Jul 26, 2013 - Fragments of Russia's Progress M-18M spacecraft splashed down in the Pacific Friday after the spacecraft re-entered the Earth's atmosphere, officials said.
Kourou, French Guiana (ESA) Jul 26, 2013 - Two more Soyuz launchers have now arrived in French Guiana, joining a previously-delivered vehicle that is being readied for Arianespace's next Spaceport mission with the medium-lift workhorse.
Cleveland OH (SPX) Jul 26, 2013 - There is a moment when everything changes. Something familiar crosses a boundary and suddenly behaves in new ways. Take water for example. In middle school science class, you probably learned about
Houston (UPI) Jul 25, 2013 - NASA says a complex, high-altitude test confirms its new Orion spacecraft could land safely even if one of its three parachutes failed.
Los Angeles (UPI) Jul 25, 2013 - Aerospace company SpaceX has released a video of its attempt to return part of its Falcon 9 rocket to Earth. It's what SpaceX engineers call a soft landing, though soft in this case is a relative term.
