Bay St. Louis MI (SPX) Feb 14, 2013 - NASA's progress toward a return to deep space missions continues with a new round of upcoming tests on the next-generation J-2X rocket engine, which will help power the agency's Space Launch System
Reston VA (SPX) Feb 14, 2013 - The International Launch Servies (ILS) Failure Review Oversight Board (FROB) concluded its review on February 7, concurring on the most probable root cause and the associated corrective action plan
Bethesda MD (SPX) Feb 14, 2013 - Sea Launch is currently a Russian spacecraft launch service that uses a mobile seagoing platform for direct equatorial launches of commercial payloads on Zenit 3SL rockets. Since its inception
Paris (SPX) Feb 12, 2013 - Eutelsat Communications and Arianespace have announced the signature of a long-term multiple launch services agreement which guarantees launch capacity and flexibility to Eutelsat for its industry-l
Mountain View, Calif. (UPI) Feb 11, 2013 - Google says it's won a contract to lease a NASA-owned historic airfield in California located just miles from the search giant's Silicon Valley headquarters.
Canoga Park CA (SPX) Feb 11, 2013 - Pratt and Whitney Rocketdyne and RD AMROSS successfully propelled the most advanced Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM) spacecraft into orbit Monday for NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey.
Kourou, French Guiana (ESA) Feb 08, 2013 - On Thursday, February 7, 2013, Arianespace successfully carried out the 54th Ariane 5 launch in a row, orbiting two telecommunications satellites: Amazonas-3 for Spanish operator Hispasat, and Azers
Kourou, French Guiana (ESA) Feb 08, 2013 - The Ariane 5 for Arianespace's initial heavy-lift mission of 2013 is ready for liftoff tomorrow evening from French Guiana with a dual-passenger payload of the Amazonas 3 and Azerspace/Africasat-1a
Arlington VA (SPX) Feb 07, 2013 - NASA and ATK (ATK) completed the second in a series of development tests for NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) booster program on January 30 at ATK's Promontory, Utah, test facility. This key a
Baikonur, Kazakhstan (SPX) Feb 07, 2013 - Wednesday's successful orbiting of six spacecraft on a Starsem Soyuz mission from Baikonur Cosmodrome marks the wrap-up of launch services currently contracted with Arianespace by Globalstar for the
Kourou, French Guiana (ESA) Feb 07, 2013 - The Ariane 5 for Arianespace's upcoming flight with an Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) resupply spacecraft has arrived in French Guiana, maintaining the mission pace for this industry-leading launc
Washington (UPI) Feb 7, 2013 - U.S. predominance in science and technology eroded during the last decade as many Asian nations increased their innovation capacities, a report indicates.
Baikonur, Kazakhstan (SPX) Feb 06, 2013 - The Soyuz launcher with six Globalstar spacecraft is poised for liftoff from Baikonur Cosmodrome on the final mission currently contracted with Arianespace for this mobile satellite voice and data s
Vienna (AFP) Feb 06, 2013 - Felix Baumgartner, the Austrian skydiver who jumped from the edge of space in October, fell at 1.25 times the speed of sound, even faster than thought, organisers said Wednesday.
Huntsville AL (SPX) Feb 05, 2013 - An ATK technician performs one last check on the avionics test article for solid rocket boosters in preparation for the second Flight Control Test of NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) at the ATK faci
Thousand Oaks, Calif. (UPI) Feb 4, 2013 - Teledyne Brown Engineering Inc., an Alabama unit of the international aerospace major Teledyne, will design and build a launch vehicle stage adapter for NASA's space launch system in a five-year, $60 million deal.
