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Fiery Blast After Astra Rocket Launch Fail in Kodiak
Sep 14, 2020 (Sputnik)
Astra's Rocket 3.1 launch in Kodiak, Alaska, was a failure, as the rocket's engines stopped while the craft was still ascending, instead turning over and fallin...
China's launch of new satellite fails
Sep 14, 2020 (XNA)
Abnormal performance was identified during the rocket's flight, said the launch center. The cause of the failure is under investigation. Source: United Press In...
Gilmour Space to launch Space Machines Company on first Eris rocket
Sep 09, 2020 (SPX)
"This could well be the first Australian payload to be launched to orbit on an Australian rocket, from an Australian launch site," said Adam Gilmour, co-founder...
India eyes hypersonic cruise missile with domestically-made scramjet engine
Sep 08, 2020 (Sputnik)
India's state-funded DRDO has flight tested the Hypersonic Technology Demonstrator Vehicle (HSTDV) using the domestically-developed scramjet propulsion system, ...
Plasma propulsion for small satellites
Sep 07, 2020 (ESA)
While traditional chemical propulsion have fundamental upper limits, electric propulsion pumps extra energy into the thrust reaction to reach much higher propel...
With DUST-2 launch, NASA's sounding rocket program is back on the range
Sep 07, 2020 (SPX)
DUST-2, a collaboration between NASA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, follows up on the DUST mission launched in October 2019. Like its predecessor, ...
Rocket Lab Granted FAA Launch Operator License for Missions from Launch Complex 2
Sep 07, 2020 (SPX)
The Launch Operator License allows for multiple launches of the Electron launch vehicle from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 2, eliminating the need to obtain individ...
Soyuz-5 rocket program to start in 2021
Sep 07, 2020 (Sputnik)
"At the start of next year we will get a new aluminum alloy [1580] that we will use to make a small number of testing samples, and I think that by the middle of...
A machine-learning assist to predicting hurricane-laura-louisiana intensity
Sep 03, 2020 (JPL)
Accurately predicting whether a hurricane-laura-louisiana will undergo rapid intensification - where wind speeds increase by 35 mph (56 kph) or more within 24 h...
Vega return to flight proves new rideshare service
Sep 03, 2020 (ESA)
This flight marks the fast and efficient completion of corrective measures and actions carried out by industry with ESA in the lead as the Vega Launch System Qu...
Northrop Grumman tests Space Launch System booster for Artemis
Sep 03, 2020 (SPX)
During the test, the 154-foot-long, five-segment rocket motor fired for just over two minutes, producing 3.6 million pounds of thrust. Two SLS boosters will pro...
NASA conducts SLS booster test for future Artemis missions
Sep 03, 2020 (SPX)
NASA completed a full-scale booster test for NASA's Space Launch System rocket in Promontory, Utah, on Sept. 2. NASA and Northrop Grumman, the SLS booster lead ...
Engineers test Space Launch System rocket booster in Utah
Sep 02, 2020 (UPI)
Live footage of the test, which took place at Northrop Grumman's facilities in Promontory, Utah, showcased the tremendous force generated by the system's rocket...
DARPA completes key milestone on Hypersonic Air-breathing Weapons program
Sep 02, 2020 (SPX)
HAWC performers Lockheed Martin and Raytheon Technologies have each tested advanced air vehicle configurations that promise to achieve and sustain efficient hyp...
New launch opportunity begins on Sept 1 for small sats mission
Sep 01, 2020 (ESA)
For Arianespace's sixth mission in 2020, and its first vega-c-features-small-spacecraft-mission-service-chart flight of the year, the company will orbit 53 sate...
Student research team develops hybrid rocket engine
Aug 31, 2020 (SPX)
"Hybrid propulsion powers Virgin Galactic's suborbital tourist spacecraft and the development of that engine has been challenging. Our students are now experien...
SpaceX launches satellite for Argentina into polar orbit
Aug 31, 2020 (UPI)
A Falcon 9 rocket lifted off with the SAOCOM 1B satellite at 7:18 p.m. EDT from Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. Clouds that had threatened a del...
SpaceX plans to launch Argentine satellite into polar orbit from Florida
Aug 29, 2020 (UPI)
A Falcon 9 rocket is scheduled to lift off with the SAOCOM 1B satellite at 7:19 p.m. EDT from Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. This rocket is to ...
Ball Aerospace completes small satellite, Green Fuel Mission
Aug 25, 2020 (SPX)
GPIM launched on June 25, 2019 at 2:30 a.m. EDT on board a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket and was commissioned in early July of the same year. "The successful compl...
Safety of SpaceX suits an 'open question' says Russian designer
Aug 25, 2020 (Sputnik)
SpaceX's Crew Dragon space suits are impressively designed, but their safety level remains an open question, said Vladimir Pirozhkov, CEO of the KINETICA High C...
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