Xichang, China (XNA) May 03, 2013 - China launched a communications satellite, Zhongxing-11, at 0:06 a.m. Thursday (Beijing time) from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China's Sichuan Province. Zhongxing-11 w
Kourou, French Guiana (ESA) May 03, 2013 - The second Vega mission from French Guiana has entered its final preparation phase as the lightweight launcher is readied for a nighttime liftoff on May 3 with a trio of satellites as its payload.
Bethesda MD (SPX) May 02, 2013 - The name VEGA is an acronym for Vettore Europeo di Generazione Avanzata, which translates to Advanced Generation European Carrier Rocket. VEGA is a new, expendable space launch vehicle now in us
Kourou, French Guiana (ESA) May 02, 2013 - The first four satellites to serve O3b Networks in providing emerging market connectivity worldwide have entered their checkout phase at the Spaceport, readying them for a June flight on Arianespace
Baltimore (UPI) May 2, 2013 - On March 16, new First-Inventor-To-File provisions of the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act took effect. The provision has been and will continue to be furiously debated as entrepreneurs and inventers will soon begin to feel the provision's sweeping consequences.
Washington (AFP) May 01, 2013 - NASA said Tuesday it will pay $424 million more to Russia for giving US astronauts a lift to the International Space Station.
Stennis Space Center MS (SPX) May 01, 2013 - Before NASA's new Space Launch System (SLS) flies to space on its inaugural mission in 2017, it will fly in place at the agency's Stennis Space Center in Mississippi. The B-2 Test Stand at Ste
Sydney, Australia (SPX) May 01, 2013 - In a matter of weeks, the longest Chinese human space mission to date will lift off from a launchpad in Jiuquan. The Shenzhou 10 spacecraft will carry two men and one woman to a rendezvous with the
Houston TX (SPX) May 01, 2013 - NASA has signed a $424 million modification to its contract with the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) for full crew transportation services to the International Space Station in 2016 with re
Washington DC (SPX) May 01, 2013 - Engineers developing NASA's next-generation rocket closed one chapter of testing with the completion of a J-2X engine test series on the A-2 test stand at the agency's Stennis Space Center in Missis
Sparks NV (SPX) May 01, 2013 - Sierra Nevada Corporation's (SNC) Space Systems is proud to announce that its Hybrid Rocket Motor propelled Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo (SS2) sub-orbital vehicle on its first ever powered flight.
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Apr 30, 2013 - NASA and the Russian Institute of Biomedical Problems, Moscow, are collaborating on a space biology mission aboard an unmanned Russian biosatellite to understand better the mechanisms of how life ad
Paris (ESA) Apr 30, 2013 - On Sunday, ESA's bedrest volunteers began lying down for their second three-week session with their heads angled below the horizontal to help research the effects of weightlessness on the human body
Washington DC (VOA) Apr 30, 2013 - NASA chief Charles Bolden found himself defending the U.S. space agency's practice of investing in commercial companies to ferry cargo - and one day crew - to the International Space Station. The gr
Washington (RIA Novosti) Apr 30, 2013 - Spending time in space could be bad for your health and the culprit could be microgravity, US military researchers said after a two-year experiment that compared human cells that went up on the spac
Kourou, French Guiana (ESA) Apr 30, 2013 - The initial four O3b spacecraft to be launched by Arianespace on Soyuz have arrived in French Guiana, taking the global satellite operator one step closer to its goal of deploying a next-generation
