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Elon Musk Lauds Brilliant Russian Rocket Engine RD-180 in Core of US' Atlas V
Dec 24, 2018 (Sputnik)
The head of SpaceX Elon Musk has praised the RD-180's engine, designed and manufactured by Russia's NPO Energomash and used on the American booster Atlas V, not...
Arianespace supports Drance and European defense with launch of CSO-1
Dec 24, 2018 (SPX)
The launch took place on Wednesday, December 19 at 1:37 p.m. (local time) from the Guiana Space Center (CSG), Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana (South America...
New Materials Architectures Sought to Cool Hypersonic Vehicles
Dec 21, 2018 (SPX)
To address this thermal challenge, DARPA recently announced its Materials Architectures and Characterization for Hypersonics (MACH) program. The MACH program se...
NZ-Dutch space startup raises 3M dollars
Dec 21, 2018 (SPX)
The money will be used to commercialise its world-leading satellite propulsion systems and begin development of it's Mk-II Spaceplane. The company makes reusabl...
NASA's Plum Brook Station Completes Acoustic Test for SLS
Dec 19, 2018 (SPX)
Given the extreme sound produced by the world's most powerful rocket, this test series, conducted at Plum Brook's Reverberant Acoustic Test Facility, provided d...
Winning ideas for new space transport services
Dec 19, 2018 (ESA)
This campaign aimed to foster open innovation and offer encouragement to those with new ideas within the privately-funded space sector. It has given ESA a valua...
Russia's Vostochny Cosmodrome to Have Only One Space Launch in 2019
Dec 19, 2018 (Sputnik)
"Most likely, it will be the launch of the Soyuz-2.1b booster... planned for spring or summer 2019," the source said. The first launch from the cosmodrome, on w...
Russia to Decommission Carrier Vehicle With Ukraine-Made Components
Dec 19, 2018 (Sputnik)
"In 2019, it is planned to carry out two launches of Rokot [launch vehicle] with Briz-KM upper stages from the Plesetsk cosmodrome, after which the rocket will ...
Elon Musk's SpaceX set to raise $500 mn: report
Dec 18, 2018 (AFP)
SpaceX will garner the funds from existing shareholders and a new investor, Baillie Gifford & Co, a Scottish money management firm that is also a major sharehol...
SpaceX blasts off powerful GPS satellite for US military
Dec 18, 2018 (AFP)
Largest piece of SLS rocket test hardware moved for testing
Dec 17, 2018 (SPX)
The liquid hydrogen tank test article will make its way up the river to NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, where dozens of hydraulic cy...
Static test qualifies crew safety launch abort motor for flight in cold conditions
Dec 17, 2018 (SPX)
The completion of this milestone brings Orion one step closer to its first flight atop NASA's Space Launch System and to enabling humans to explore the moon, Ma...
Aerojet Rocketdyne awarded DARPA contract to design advanced opfires propulsion system
Dec 13, 2018 (SPX)
DARPA's Operational Fires, or OpFires, program seeks to develop a mobile missile system that would be capable of delivering a variety of tactical payloads to di...
Roscosmos to submit super-heavy rocket project to Government
Dec 13, 2018 (Sputnik)
"An internal memo of Roscosmos stipulates that the project under the federal program on the creation of a super-heavy carrier rocket should be submitted for app...
NASA Sounding Rockets Carry TRICE-2 over Norwegian Sea
Dec 11, 2018 (SPX)
The Twin Rockets to Investigate Cusp Electrodynamics or TRICE-2 were launched at 3:26 and 3:28 a.m. EST from the Andoya Space Center in Andenes, Norway. The fir...
Tesla CEO Elon Musk taunts US financial regulatory agency
Dec 10, 2018 (AFP)
"I want to be clear. I do not respect the SEC -- I do not respect them" he said in an interview on the CBS network news program "60 Minutes." Musk had to resign...
Dragon attached to Station, returns to Earth in January
Dec 10, 2018 (SPX)
The 16th contracted commercial resupply mission from SpaceX delivers more than 5,600 pounds of research, crew supplies and hardware to the orbiting laboratory. ...
China puts 2 Saudi satellites into orbit
Dec 10, 2018 (Sputnik)
The Long March 2D carrier rocket with the two satellites was launched from the Jiuquan cosmodrome in the country's northern-central Gansu province at 12:12 a.m....
Ariane 6 on the way to flight
Dec 07, 2018 (ESA)
ESA has worked with an industrial network led by prime contractor ArianeGroup, of more than 600 companies in 13 European countries, including 350 small- and med...
Inmarsat to be first commercial customer for the new H3 launch vehicle
Dec 07, 2018 (SPX)
This is the second agreement entered by Inmarsat and MHI, following the launch services contract awarded to MHI's H-IIA Launch Vehicle in 2017. These agreements...
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