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X-60A hypersonic flight research vehicle program completes critical design review

Mar 11, 2019 (SPX)

X-60A program completed its Critical Design Review, a major milestone in the program. The program now moves into the fabrication phase. The initial flight of th...

Illinois Native Uses Experience On Farm To Build Deep Space Rocket

Mar 11, 2019 (SPX)

Growing up on a working dairy farm in rural Breese, Illinois, NASA engineer Julie Bassler watched planes fly overhead as she worked in the fields. "As a child, ...

Ion experiment aces quantum scrambling test

Mar 11, 2019 (SPX)

Their experiments on a group of seven atomic ions, reported on March 7 in Nature, demonstrate a new way to distinguish between scrambling - which maintains the ...

SpaceX Dragon capsule splashes down in Atlantic Ocean: NASA

Mar 08, 2019 (AFP)

"Good splashdown of Dragon confirmed!" the SpaceX account tweeted along with an image of the capsule showing its four main white and orange parachutes deployed ...

China's new solid rocket booster completes test

Mar 08, 2019 (XNA)

With a diameter of 2.65 meters, the booster engine is expected to be used on the modified version of the Long March-11 rocket. The rocket is the only series in ...

N. Korea rocket site appears 'operational' again: US experts

Mar 07, 2019 (AFP)

The specialized website 38 North and the Center for Strategic and International Studies used commercial satellite imagery to track construction at the site -- w...

Corvid wins $223.2M deal to help build suborbital flight vehicles

Mar 05, 2019 (UPI)

The contract is for short- and medium-range vehicles over a five-year ordering period, the Defense Department announced Monday. In a suborbital flight, a spacef...

German engineers produce and test 3D-printed rocket engine

Mar 05, 2019 (Sputnik)

German Aerospace Centre (DLR) in collaboration with SLM Solutions, have successfully created a rocket engine, called BERTA, fully assembled using 3D-printing te...

Raytheon awarded $63.3M for hypersonic weapons system research

Mar 05, 2019 (UPI)

Raytheon announced the contract on Monday, revealing the work will be part of a joint development of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and the Air F...

D-orbit signs framework agreement with Firefly to acquire launch capacity

Mar 05, 2019 (SPX)

The agreement grants D-Orbit the status of a preferred launch aggregation partner for the European market, allowing D-Orbit to purchase, market, and resell laun...

SpaceX Dragon capsule successfully docks on ISS

Mar 03, 2019 (AFP)

"We can confirm hard capture is complete," NASA said. The announcement was met with applause at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. The docking began at...

Countdown as SpaceX, NASA prepare to test new astronaut capsule

Mar 02, 2019 (AFP)

This time around, the only occupant on board SpaceX's Crew Dragon capsule will be a dummy named Ripley. But if the test goes smoothly, NASA plans to put two ast...

SpaceX astronaut capsule launched on ISS Demo-1 mission

Mar 02, 2019 (AFP)

The docking of the capsule, which has only a dummy on board, was concluded at 1051 GMT, nearly 250 miles (400 kilometers) over the surface of the Earth, NASA an...

Arianespace Reveals Launch Date of O3b Satellites Atop Russia's Soyuz Rocket

Mar 01, 2019 (Sputnik)

On Wednesday, a source told Sputnik that the launch of the four telecoms satellites of the O3b constellation had been postponed for three days from 26 March to ...

SpaceX to launch test for resumption of manned US flights

Feb 28, 2019 (AFP)

Since the shuttle Atlantis returned to earth on July 21, 2011, no American astronaut has blasted off from US soil for a tour in space. NASA pays Russia to get i...

McDermott awarded EPC Contract for largest hydrogen cryogenic sphere ever built for NASA

Feb 27, 2019 (SPX)

"McDermott's CB and I Storage Tank Solutions has more than a century of experience delivering innovative and complex storage solutions," said Richard Heo, McDer...

Morpheus Space qualifies the world's smallest satellite propulsion system in orbit

Feb 27, 2019 (SPX)

This enabled the Germany-based company to operate the first electric thruster in this satellite size in space. The primary objective of the satellite mission is...

Global Space Propulsion System Market forecast to exceed $10 billion by 2023

Feb 27, 2019 (SPX)

The growth of the market can be attributed to the significant increase in the manufacturing of both satellites and launch vehicles. Significant investment in th...

Minister Pedro Duque opens up PLD Space facilities at the Teruel Airport

Feb 27, 2019 (SPX)

During the event, the minister outlined that "PLD Space is the perfect example of a transfer between science and innovation". Duque also highlighted the team's ...

Firefly Aerospace Announces Mass Production Facility and Cape Canaveral Launch Site

Feb 26, 2019 (SPX)

Firefly's announcement is concurrent with its receipt of a Statement of Capability from the 45th Space Wing. As Florida's spaceport development authority, Space...