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Leading the New Space Age: Government backs ambitious plans for the UK in space
Jun 06, 2019 (SPX)
There are significant opportunities for the growing UK space sector as commercial space activity increases globally and the United States leads international ef...
Space Rider: Europe's reusable space transport system
Jun 06, 2019 (ESA)
Launched on Vega-C, Space Rider will serve as an uncrewed high-tech space laboratory operating for periods longer than two months in low orbit. It will then re-...
SpaceX Cargo Spacecraft Splashes Down in Pacific Ocean with Scientific Research
Jun 06, 2019 (SPX)
Flight controllers at mission control in Houston used the space station's Canadarm2 robotic arm to detach Dragon from the Earth-facing side of the station's Har...
All engines GO for Vega-C maiden flight
Jun 06, 2019 (ESA)
Since the previous update on the status of Vega-C in December, the project has moved into the qualification phase following a successful critical design review ...
U.S Army prepares to test hypersonic weapon in 2020
Jun 05, 2019 (UPI)
In addition to the hypersonic weapon, the Army plans to field combat vehicles with 50-kilowatt lasers on them sometime in 2022, Pentagon officials told reporter...
China conducts first sea-based space rocket launch
Jun 05, 2019 (AFP)
The Asian giant now spends more than Russia and Japan on its civil and military space programmes -- unveiling ambitious plans for missions to the moon and beyon...
NASA Reaches New Milestone on Complex, Large Rocket
Jun 04, 2019 (SPX)
The Artemis program will send the first woman and the next man to the Moon by 2024 and develop a sustainable human presence on the Moon by 2028. The program tak...
RUAG Space produces thermal insulation for launchers
Jun 03, 2019 (SPX)
For the new product RUAG Space can build on its established processes and competencies in the area of thermal hardware. "During the journey from Earth to space ...
Ozmens' SNC test-fires new rocket engine in preparation for US launches
Jun 03, 2019 (SPX)
Among the public officials witnessing the rocket engine test was U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), who supported transition of 1,500 acres of the Badger Army A...
New Russian Soyuz-5 launcher should conquer commercial market - Roscosmos
Jun 02, 2019 (Sputnik)
"We have some reserve of possibilities, so we aim at competing with them [the United States] in this field. Moreover, the Soyuz-5 launcher, which will be constr...
Proton launches Russian comsat Yamal-601 into Orbit
May 31, 2019 (SPX)
The customer has taken control of the new satellite. The Yamal-601 project is part of the Targeted Federal Program for the Development of Television and Radio B...
NASA Makes Progress Assembling Massive Space Launch System Rocket Stage
May 30, 2019 (SPX)
This stage and its four RS-25 engines will produce 2 million pounds of thrust to help send the Artemis 1 Mission, the first integrated flight of SLS and the Ori...
Michigan Company Helps Build NASA Moon Rocket, Accelerate Moon Missions
May 23, 2019 (SPX)
Futuramic, a company with factories in Detroit and Warren, is one of more than 78 Michigan companies and 3,200 businesses across 50 states supporting NASA's ret...
From airport to spaceport as UK targets horizontal spaceflight
May 23, 2019 (SPX)
Sites such as Newquay in Cornwall, Campbeltown and Glasgow Prestwick in Scotland, and Snowdonia in Wales are already developing their sub-orbital flight, satell...
ULA Completes Final Design Review for New Vulcan Centaur Rocket
May 22, 2019 (SPX)
"This is a tremendous accomplishment for the ULA team and a significant milestone in the development of a rocket - signaling the completion of the design phase ...
Advanced rocket engine ready for space mission
May 21, 2019 (XNA)
LandSpace, a private startup in Beijing, announced on Friday that its TQ-12 methane rocket engine successfully underwent a 20-second trial run at the company's ...
USC Students Win the Collegiate Space Race
May 21, 2019 (SPX)
Most importantly, the flight of Traveler IV brings to a close a quiet, intense space race that has kept the world's top engineering colleges locked in competiti...
ESA signs contracts for enhanced Ariane 6 composite upper stage technologies
May 21, 2019 (SPX)
MT Aerospace and ArianeGroup are combining their respective skills in Augsburg and Bremen to design and test the Prototype of a Highly OptimizEd Black Upper Sta...
SpaceX Falcon Heavy launch for Air Force set June 22
May 15, 2019 (UPI)
It's the first time the U.S. military will use a Falcon Heavy rocket, and it will reuse the two boosters that launched Falcon Heavy's Arabsat-6A mission in Apri...
Rocket Lab to launch rideshare mission for Spaceflight
May 13, 2019 (SPX)
The mission is Rocket Lab's seventh Electron launch overall and the company's third for 2019, continuing Rocket Lab's average monthly launch cadence. The flight...
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