Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 11, 2012 - NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, and its rocket flew above the palm trees to arrive at their launch location at the U.S. Army's Reagan test site at Kwajalein Atoll. Kwa
Huntsville, AL (SPX) Jun 11, 2012 - NASA's Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Miss., broke its own record on June 8, when it conducted a test on the new J-2X powerpack. The test lasted for 1,150 seconds, breaking the previous re
Beijing (AFP) June 9, 2012 - China will launch a spacecraft this month to conduct its first manned space docking, state media said Saturday, the latest step in a plan aimed at giving the country a permanent space station by 2020.
Washington (AFP) June 8, 2012 - Could some really great cupcakes be enough to send Americans back to the Moon?
Mojave CA (SPX) Jun 08, 2012 - With the Tom Sachs space-themed art exhibit, Space Program: Mars as a backdrop, XCOR Aerospace named Space Expedition Corporation (SXC) as the new General Sales Agent (GSA) for the XCOR owned Lynx
Houston TX (SPX) Jun 08, 2012 - Moving liquids without gravity aboard the International Space Station can be tricky - if there's no down then water won't flow downhill. Capillary Flow Experiments-2, or CFE-2, a physical science
Kourou, French Guiana (ESA) Jun 07, 2012 - The fourth Ariane 5 for launch by Arianespace in 2012 is beginning to take shape with the assembly start-up of this heavy-lift vehicle at the Spaceport in French Guiana, which will orbit a dual-pass
Vienna (XNA) Jun 07, 2012 - China advocates peaceful use of outer space and will strive for inclusive development of outer space, a senior Chinese diplomat said here Wednesday. The notion of achieving the inclusive development
Boulder CO (SPX) Jun 07, 2012 - University of Colorado Boulder students and faculty have been selected to develop a remotely operable, robotic garden to support future astronauts in deep space. The project is one of five universit
Huntsville, AL (SPX) Jun 07, 2012 - NASA engineers working on the new Space Launch System (SLS) can now begin developing the advanced, heavy-lift launch vehicle's flight software using newly delivered software test bed computers from
Vienna (AFP) June 6, 2012 - Europe's rule-making bureaucracy is moving forward with plans to introduce some earthly order to the unruly heavens, unveiling its latest efforts Wednesday to regulate outer space.
Huntington Beach, CA (SPX) Jun 05, 2012 - Boeing has been awarded an 18-month study contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to evaluate technologies for on-demand small satellite launch systems. Under the A
New York (AFP) June 5, 2012 - The final frontier may be tough, but, as a damaged wingtip proves, the space shuttle Enterprise's final journey by barge through New York is no picnic.
Cape Canaveral FL (SPX) Jun 05, 2012 - Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) Space Systems' Dream Chaser design passed one of its most complex tests to date with a successful captive-carry test conducted near the Rocky Mountain Metropolitan Ai
Huntsville AL (SPX) Jun 05, 2012 - Boeing has delivered NASA three flight computer software test beds, the first critical element for flight software development in support of NASA's Space Launch System (SLS). Flight software control
Bern, Switzerland (SPX) Jun 04, 2012 - Sea Launch AG launched Thursday the Intelsat 19 satellite from the Equator on the ocean-based Launch PlatformOdyssey, completing its eleventh mission for Intelsat S.A. and marking Sea Launch's first
