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SpaceX laying off 10 percent of workforce
Jan 14, 2019 (Sputnik)
SpaceX will offer affected employees a minimum of eight weeks pay and other benefits, the Los Angeles Times reported on Friday citing a person familiar with the...
Elon Musk shows off prototype of Mars-bound rocket, Starship
Jan 11, 2019 (AFP)
Musk posted pictures on Twitter late Thursday of the Starship Hopper prototype, which awaits its first flight test in Texas in the coming weeks. "Starship test ...
SpaceX launches final 10 satellites for Iridium
Jan 11, 2019 (AFP)
"Three, two, one, ignition, liftoff of Falcon 9," Iridium CEO Matt Desch said on a live webcast as the white Falcon 9 rocket took flight from Vandenberg Air For...
Roscosmos introduces $15Bln cap on building Yenisei super-heavy rocket
Jan 11, 2019 (Sputnik)
In December, a source told Sputnik that the project might require up to 1.5 trillion rubles in funding. "During one of the recent sessions, the leadership of Ro...
Small-satellite launch service revenues to pass $69B by 2030
Jan 09, 2019 (SPX)
In order to keep up with market demand, Frost and Sullivan anticipates innovative solutions will be deployed across the value chain including launch, manufactur...
Navy test-fires low-cost, hypersonic-speed projectiles
Jan 09, 2019 (UPI)
Twenty projectiles were successfully fired at near-hypersonic speed from the USS Dewey's standard Mk 45, five-inch main deck gun during the "Rim of the Pacific"...
The high cost of space missions
Jan 08, 2019 (SPX)
Since the retirement of the Space Shuttle in 2011, NASA has been using other sources for resupplying the station. Initially, Russia provided this service, but m...
ISRO planning to 32 space missions in 2019
Jan 04, 2019 (IANS)
The year 2019 promises to be challenging to the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) community with 32 planned missions," its chairman K. Sivan said in a m...
Russia continues work on plasma engine for superfast space travel
Jan 03, 2019 (Sputnik)
Physicists from the Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics of the Siberian branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Novosibirsk are preparing another round of ...
Plesetsk spaceport to prepare launch pad for Angara rocket in May
Jan 01, 2019 (Sputnik)
"Additional equipment will be tentatively installed on the launch pad... in preparation for launches of the Angara-A5 rocket atop the new 14 48 upper stage in M...
Two Soyuz launches with UK satellites planned for 1st Quarter of 2019
Jan 01, 2019 (Sputnik)
"Two launches of the Soyuz-ST carrier rocket with a Fregat upper stage are planned for February 19 and March 26. The first launch is planned to bring from four ...
China's first private rocket production base begins operation
Dec 31, 2018 (XNA)
The company told Xinhua on Friday that their production base, with research and development (R and D) functions, opened last Wednesday. The company's TQ-12 rock...
Difficulties in Planned Soyuz Launches Preparation to Emerge in 2020 - Source
Dec 31, 2018 (Sputnik)
"In late 2019, one of the two launch sites for Soyuz rockets on Baikonur will be decommissioned. Thus, all the load of over 15 Soyuz launches in 2020 will be pl...
What You Need to Know About Russia's Vostochny Cosmodrome
Dec 28, 2018 (Sputnik)
The Vostochny cosmodrome is the first civilian spaceport in Russia, designed to prepare and launch spacecraft for scientific, socio-economic and commercial purp...
Russian Soyuz-2 1a Rocket With Satellites Blasts Off From Vostochny Cosmodrome
Dec 28, 2018 (Sputnik)
The rocket was launched at 05:07 a.m. Moscow time (02:07 GMT) as planned. Russian remote sensing satellites Kanopus-V number five and number six entered the pre...
Russia touts hypersonic missile speed
Dec 27, 2018 (AFP)
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday tracked final tests of a hypersonic missile dubbed "Avangard," which he says would defeat all existing missile def...
Number of World's Space Launches in 2018 Exceeds 100, Space Industry Source Says
Dec 27, 2018 (Sputnik)
"A total of 112 space launches have been carried out so far this year. The number of launches per year for the last time exceeded 100 in 1990," the source said....
Putin hails 'successful' test of new hypersonic missile
Dec 26, 2018 (AFP)
"On my instructions, the Ministry of Defence prepared and conducted a final test of this system. This has just been completed with absolute success," Putin said...
Russia to Complete Flight Tests of Soyuz-2.1V Carrier Rocket in 2019 - Source
Dec 25, 2018 (Sputnik)
"The fifth and final launch of Soyuz-2.1v as part of flight tests is scheduled for 2019. Previously, it was planned to be carried out this year," the source sai...
Roscosmos selects super-heavy rocket concept designed for lunar flights
Dec 24, 2018 (Sputnik)
"The question of the parameters of a super-heavy carrier rocket has caused an active discussion among the members of the presidium of the scientific and technic...
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