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
Las Cruces, N.M. (UPI) Jan 6, 2012 - Lowell Randall, described as one of the great pioneer rocket scientists who launched the U.S. space program, died this week in New Mexico.
Kourou, French Guiana (ESA) Jan 06, 2012 - After confirming its world leadership in 2011, Arianespace is now ramping up for operations in 2012. It aims to carry out seven Ariane 5 launches, five Soyuz launches and the first Vega launch.
Cambridge, England (UPI) Jan 6, 2012 - British physicist Stephen Hawking says mankind faces the threat of nuclear annihilation and should build colonies on Mars and beyond.
The year 2011 was very important for the space industry development in Poland. This article contains a short summary of most important Polish space-related events.
Paris (AFP) Jan 5, 2012 - European satellite launch operator Arianespace said on Thursday it had scheduled 13 missions for 2012, the first year in which it would deploy rockets in all three categories of payload.
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Jan 05, 2012 - India's decision to stretch out its plans for an indigenous astronaut launch to 2020 or beyond will probably disappoint some. It's a long way in the future, but the decision is an unavoidable realit
Cleveland OH (SPX) Jan 05, 2012 - Where there's smoke, you need a functioning smoke detector that can tell the difference between, say, smoke particles and dust. Yet in the microgravity environment of the International Space Station
Beijing (AFP) Jan 5, 2012 - As China pushes to become a global space power, experts say its ambitions go well beyond a symbolic moon landing, to satellite observation and a global positioning system to rival that of the United States.
Nottingham, UK (SPX) Jan 05, 2012 - Using powerful magnets to levitate fruit flies can provide vital clues to how biological organisms are affected by weightless conditions in space, researchers at The University of Nottingham say.
Washington DC (SPX) Jan 05, 2012 - Humanity's adventurous, stubborn, mad and glorious aspiration to reach the stars is the subject of Physics World's lead feature in January. Sidney Perkowitz, Candler Professor of Physics Emeritus
Washington DC (SPX) Jan 04, 2012 - Robotic exploration to remote regions, to include distant planetary bodies, is often limited by energy requirements to perform, in repetition, even the simplest tasks. With this in mind, researchers
Paris, France (SPX) Jan 03, 2012 - SSC has successfully finalized its launch support to the European space industry leader Astrium and the French space agency CNES for the six satellites that were simultaneously launched 17 December
Washington DC (SPX) Jan 03, 2012 - No human-made object is further out in space than NASA's Voyager I, which is currently near the edge of our Solar System, more than 33 lighthours - the distance traveled by light in a vacuum in one
Beijing, China (XNA) Jan 03, 2012 - A research institute focusing on the development of the country's aerospace engineering technologies was jointly founded by the Chinese Academy of Engineering and the China Aerospace Science and Tec
Beijing, China (SPX) Jan 03, 2012 - With the successful completion of the Tiangong-1, or Heavenly Palace mission, China showed the world that it had accomplished a major milestone in space technology by mastering the sophisticated int
