Huntington Beach CA (SPX) Jan 12, 2012 - Boeing has begun work on a four-month NASA contract to develop a mission concept study for solar electric propulsion technologies. Under the $600,000 firm, fixed-price contract, Boeing will ev
Boulder, CO (SPX) Jan 11, 2012 - Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corp. has submitted a mission concept study to NASA for the storage and transfer of cryogenic propellants in space. Ball Aerospace was one of four companies awa
Cape Canaveral, Fla. (UPI) Jan 11, 2012 - The director of Florida's Cape Canaveral rocket range says a busy 2012 launch schedule is proof there's life after the end of NASA's shuttle program.
Las Vegas (AFP) Jan 11, 2012 - Google's Android software is best known for powering smartphones, but executive chairman Eric Schmidt sees a future where it could also help devices communicate at home.
Taiyuan, China (XNA) Jan 10, 2012 - China successfully launched the Ziyuan III satellite Monday from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in northern Shanxi province. The satellite was launched at 11:17 a.m. Monday aboard a Long
Las Vegas (AFP) Jan 10, 2012 - The International Consumer Electronics Show kicked off on Tuesday with a dazzling array of high-tech gadgetry including ultra-thin laptops, snazzy smartphones, iPad rivals and flat-screen and 3D TVs.
Hampton VA (SPX) Jan 10, 2012 - After six months of testing, an 18,000 pound (8,165 kg) Orion mockup took its final splash into NASA Langley Research Center's Hydro Impact Basin on Jan. 6. Orion, the next deep space explorat
Las Vegas (AFP) Jan 10, 2012 - Victorinox has pulled from its technology pocket a version of its vaunted Swiss Army knife equipped with a solid state drive capable of holding all of the digital data in a person's life.
Houston TX (SPX) Jan 10, 2012 - Anyone who has ever been involved in a computer upgrade knows that they can be complicated, and that you have to take your time, be careful, and go step-by-step if you want to be successful. T
Huntsville, AL (SPX) Jan 10, 2012 - More than 500 students from middle schools, high schools, colleges and universities in 29 states will show their rocketeering prowess in the 2011-12 NASA Student Launch Projects flight challenge. Th
Houston TX (SPX) Jan 10, 2012 - Photographing the International Space Station seems like something that could be done only from space, but taking a picture from your own backyard actually is easier than you might think. If y
Kourou, French Guiana (ESA) Jan 09, 2012 - Arianespace is preparing for the busiest year of flight activity ever in 2012, building on an industry leadership position that benefits from the operational synergy, availability and commercial adv
La Paz, Bolivia (XNA) Jan 09, 2012 - China would put Bolivia's first telecommunications satellite into orbit in December 2013, China's Ambassador to Bolivia Shen Zhiliang announced Thursday. The manufacturing process of the satel
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 09, 2012 - For its first mission to the International Space Station, SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft will use deployable solar arrays as its primary power source for running sensors, driving heating and cooling sys
Paris (AFP) Jan 9, 2012 - The maiden voyage of Europe's Vega rocket, designed to launch small payloads of about 1.5 tonnes into low-Earth orbit, is set for February 9, the head of the European Space Agency said Monday.
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Jan 07, 2012 - In early January, the mass media went viral over a controversial story in the journal Spaceflight, published by the British Interplanetary Society. To cut a long story short, Spaceflight claimed
