Washington DC (SPX) Mar 16, 2012 - Students, professionals, public sought to create algorithm enabling capture of objects in space. The absence of gravity presents a significant challenge for precision robotic maneuvering and operati
Washington DC (SPX) Mar 16, 2012 - Arianespace's new Power of Three theme is making its industry debut at this week's Satellite 2012 event in Washington, D.C., where the company is underscoring the synergy, availability, reliabilit
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Mar 16, 2012 - Russia's Federal Space Agency Roscosmos has submitted to the government a draft of a space exploration strategy until 2030, Kommersant business daily reported on Tuesday. The ambitious program
Houston, TX (SPX) Mar 15, 2012 - Boeing successfully completed a Preliminary Design Review (PDR) of the company's integrated Commercial Crew Space Transportation system, which includes the Crew Space Transportation (CST)-100 spacec
Cape Canaveral FL (SPX) Mar 15, 2012 - NASA's plans for a new generation of commercially owned and operated spacecraft and launches involve meeting a number of goals, none higher than keeping to the agency's high standards for crew safet
Bern, Switzerland (SPX) Mar 15, 2012 - Sea Launch has been selected to launch the Intelsat 27 communications satellite in early 2013. Intelsat 27 will be placed into an optimized geosynchronous transfer orbit (GTO) utilizing the highly-p
Bern, Switzerland (SPX) Mar 15, 2012 - Eutelsat has assigned the launch of its EUTELSAT 70B (ex. W5A) communications satellite to Sea Launch to be launched in the fourth quarter of 2012. The launch will occur from Sea Launch's laun
Hawthorne, CA (SPX) Mar 15, 2012 - Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) has signed contracts with Asia Broadcast Satellite (ABS) and Satelites Mexicanos (Satmex) for two launches aboard SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket. This announ
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Mar 15, 2012 - The Sea Launch consortium said on Monday it has signed contracts on the launch of a European and a U.S. telecoms satellites. The company is expected to launch the Eutelsat 70B communications s
Paris, France (SPX) Mar 15, 2012 - Jean-Yves Le Gall, Chairman and CEO of Arianespace, and Adrian Ballintine, founder and Chief Executive Officer of NewSat Limited (NewSat), have signed the launch services contract for the Jabiru-1 s
Canoga Park, CA (SPX) Mar 14, 2012 - Pratt and Whitney Rocketdyne has successfully completed a full-mission duration hot-fire test on a Launch Abort Engine (LAE) for Boeing's Crew Space Transportation (CST)-100 spacecraft. The CST-100
Beijing, China (XNA) Mar 14, 2012 - Authorities have completed the initial selection of crew members for China's first manned space docking mission, and the roster includes female astronauts, an official with the country's manned spac
Beijing, China (IANS) Mar 14, 2012 - China has set a target of completing a space mission of 100 rockets, 100 satellites between 2011 and 2015, according to a space official. According to Zhang Jianheng, deputy general manager
Washington (AFP) March 13, 2012 - Brain and eye problems have surfaced in astronauts who spent more than a month in space, marking a potential setback to plans for longer deep space missions, a US study said Tuesday.
Titusville, Fla. (UPI) Mar 13, 2012 - One of the U.S. inventors of the superconducting maglev train says a bigger, better version of the technology could fire payloads from Earth into orbit.
Washington (AFP) March 13, 2012 - European satellite launch operator Arianespace announced at a satellite expo in Washington Tuesday that it had signed two new contracts this week for launches in the coming years.
