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Rocket Crafters pivots with new patents for 3D-printed fuel

Mar 21, 2019 (UPI)

The scrappy space company works out of a gritty garage in Cocoa, about 15 miles from Kennedy Space Center. It made Florida space startup Rocket Crafters pivots ...

Ariane 6 maiden flight will deploy satellites for OneWeb, additional launches booked

Mar 21, 2019 (SPX)

The launch service agreement specifies the use of the qualification launch of the Ariane 62 version, scheduled for the second half of 2020; the two Ariane 6 opt...

Aerojet Rocketdyne Powers WGS-10 Military Communications Satellite from Launch Pad to Orbit

Mar 19, 2019 (SPX)

Aerojet Rocketdyne propulsion systems on the Delta IV rocket included an RS-68A booster engine, an RL10B-2 upper-stage engine, 12 MR-106H reaction control thrus...

Brazil leader, wooing Trump, opens base to US rockets

Mar 19, 2019 (AFP)

The outspoken conservative, who will meet Trump at the White House on Tuesday, has ideological affinities with the US leader and has broken Brazilian precedent ...

Russia's Vostochny Cosmodrome Ready for Space, ISS Launches

Mar 19, 2019 (Sputnik)

"Indeed, [the route] with an inclination [of 51 degrees to the equator during launches from Vostochny spaceport] can be used for flight to the ISS", the spokesp...

ESA greenlight for UK's air-breathing rocket engine

Mar 15, 2019 (SPX)

ESA, together with the UK Space Agency (UKSA) recently reviewed the preliminary design of the demonstrator engine core of the Synergetic Air-Breathing Rocket En...

NASA heavy rocket may not get off the ground in time for Lunar mission

Mar 15, 2019 (SPX)

NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine has told US lawmakers that with its SLS rocket behind schedule, the agency is considering the use of commercial rockets for i...

Russia's New Hypersonic Nuclear Weapon

Mar 15, 2019 (SPX)

This is 15,000 MPH, almost the speed of an orbiting satellite. According to Russian news sources, Avangard will enter Russian service this year. Check YouTube f...

SpaceX Dragon 2 pulls off nail-biting landing - here's the rocket science

Mar 15, 2019 (The Conversation )

When docked to the ISS, the Dragon capsule was orbiting the Earth at a speed of 27,600km per hour, about 400km above the surface of the Earth. To give it a safe...

Bridenstine addesses SLS and Orion workforce at NASA

Mar 14, 2019 (SPX)

Yesterday, I was asked by Congress about the schedule slip of the Space Launch System and plans to get NASA back on track. I mentioned that we are exploring the...

NASA chief acknowledges more trouble with SLS rocket

Mar 13, 2019 (AFP)

The Space Launch System program is being run much as the Apollo and space shuttle mission were handled in the days of old. But Wednesday's announcement illustra...

Microlaunchers to grow Europe's economy

Mar 12, 2019 (ESA)

ESA intends to strengthen European industry by fostering a globally competitive European space sector with increased industry participation in launcher developm...

China's Long March rockets complete 300 launches

Mar 12, 2019 (XNA)

"This is a milestone for China's space industry development," said Wu Yansheng, board chairman of the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC)....

China developing key technologies on heavy-lift rocket

Mar 12, 2019 (XNA)

The development of the heavy-lift rocket will greatly improve China's capacity of entering outer space. The Long March-9 rocket will support China's space indus...

Dragon splashdown marks success of first NASA Commercial Crew test

Mar 11, 2019 (SPX)

About 6 hours after departing the space station, Crew Dragon splashed down at 8:45 a.m. EST approximately 230 miles off the coast of Cape Canaveral, Florida. Sp...

XQ-58A Valkyrie demonstrator completes inaugural flight

Mar 11, 2019 (SPX)

This joint effort falls within the Air Force Research Laboratory's Low Cost Attritable Aircraft Technology (LCAAT) portfolio, which has the objective to break t...

China's commercial carrier rocket to make maiden flight in H1

Mar 11, 2019 (XNA)

The rocket, named Smart Dragon-1 (SD-1), is the first member of the Dragon series commercial carrier rockets family to be produced by CALVT, as China accelerate...

SpaceX CEO Musk on Russia's Rocket Engineering, Engines: 'Excellent'

Mar 11, 2019 (Sputnik)

"Russia has excellent rocket engineering and best engine currently flying. Reusable version of their new Angara rocket would be great," Musk wrote on Twitter on...

Ethanol to help fuel Russian space tourism rocket

Mar 11, 2019 (UPI)

A company named CosmoCourse plans to start relatively short flights in 2025 to take groups of six tourists to an altitude of 37 to 200 miles - giving space tour...

China's Largest Solid-Fuel Rocket Scheduled for First Launch in 2019

Mar 11, 2019 (Sputnik)

China's private space sector will embrace more opportunities in 2019. The country should complete its laws and regulations on the private space sector to suppor...