Brisbane, Australia (SPX) Dec 28, 2009 - University of Queensland researchers are testing new materials to withstand the extreme heat experienced by hypersonic vehicles in flight so they can fly for substantially longer.
Washington (UPI) Dec 26, 2009 - Three space missions in 2010 aim to learn more about the sun, and the climate and the oceans of Earth, NASA officials said.
Moscow, Russia (AFP) Dec 23, 2009 - A Russian rocket carrying three astronauts from Japan, Russia and the United States docked at the International Space Station Wednesday, the Russian flight control centre said.
Edwards AFB CA (SPX) Dec 23, 2009 - Ominous black smoke rose over California's high desert on a crisp, cold December morning in 1962, and there was no sign of a parachute. Della Mae Bowling, the pilot's office secretary at NASA's Flight Research Center on Edwards Air Force Base, was crying as fire trucks raced across the vast expanse of Rogers Dry Lake toward the crash scene.
Paris, France (SPX) Dec 22, 2009 - Avanti Communications Group has chosen Arianespace to launch its HYLAS 2 communications satellite. The HYLAS 2 satellite will be boosted into geostationary transfer orbit in the first half of 2012 by an Ariane 5 or Soyuz launcher operating at the Guiana Space Center, Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana.
Houston TX (SPX) Dec 22, 2009 - High above the Earth, the International Space Station's Expedition 22 crew kept busy with science and maintenance Monday as they awaited Tuesday's scheduled arrival of additional crew members.
London, UK (SPX) Dec 22, 2009 - The Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), the body responsible for funding UK astronomy, has reported the results of its Prioritization Exercise, announcing projects chosen for continued funding and those where support will be withdrawn.
Paris, France (SPX) Dec 22, 2009 - Gaia is a successor to the Hipparcos satellite launched by Arianespace in 1989. Gaia will be placed into deep space beyond lunar orbit by a Soyuz rocket launched from the Guiana Space Center (French Guiana) in 2012. The orbit will be of a Lissajous-type around the second Lagrange point (L2).
Seoul, South Korea (XNA) Dec 22, 2009 - South Korea will put together a plan to attempt the second firing of the Korea Space Launch Vehicle-1 (KSLV-1), its first locally developed space rocket, local media on Monday quoted a report to President Lee Myung-bak as saying.
El Segundo CA (SPX) Dec 21, 2009 - An innovative method for joining composite structures implemented by Northrop Grumman has passed a series of intensive structural tests, paving the way for the use of composites in future spacecraft.
Dulles VA (SPX) Dec 21, 2009 - Orbital Sciences been awarded a Phase 2 contract by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to develop the final design for System F6 (Future Fast, Flexible, Fractionated, Free-Flying Spacecraft).
Beijing (XNA) Dec 21, 2009 - China will put into space a civil high-definition survey satellite, the first of its kind in the country, in 2011, the State Bureau of Surveying and Mapping (SBSM) said here Friday.
Baikonur, Kazakhstan (AFP) Dec 20, 2009 - Astronauts from Russia, Japan and the United States blast off to the International Space Station on Monday, bringing with them promises of 'space sushi' and 'tweets' from the cosmos.
Baikonur, Kazakhstan (AFP) Dec 20, 2009 - Three astronauts from Japan, Russia and the United States blasted off Monday for a Christmas voyage to the International Space Station, an AFP correspondent reported.
Baikonur, Kazakhstan (AFP) Dec 19, 2009 - Despite being separated from their families, astronauts heading to the International Space Station next week are excited to be spending Christmas in space, a crew member said Saturday.
Wright-Patterson AFB OH (SPX) Dec 18, 2009 - The X-51A Waverider was carried aloft for the first time Dec. 9 by an Air Force Flight Test Center B-52 Stratofortress over Edwards Air Force Base, Calif.
