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Microlaunchers: new ways to access space
Nov 19, 2018 (ESA)
After a presentation at this workshop on ESA's vision and roadmap, five companies - PLD Space, Deimos, Avio, ArianeGroup and MT Aerospace - each shared the find...
With each rocket launch, 'I have three heart attacks'
Nov 19, 2018 (AFP)
Eberly heads the Antares rocket program at Northrop Grumman, the US aerospace company that shares with SpaceX a high-value client: NASA. Saturday at four in the...
Cygnus cargo ship launches to ISS
Nov 17, 2018 (AFP)
An Antares rocket operated by Northrop Grumman lit up the night sky at 4:01 am (0901 GMT) as it propelled the craft loaded with 7,400 pounds (3,350 kilograms) o...
Rocket Lab announces $140 Million in new funding
Nov 17, 2018 (SPX)
New investor ACC also contributed to the round. The Series E round close brings total Rocket Lab funding to date to more than $288 million (USD), with the compa...
Russia's Cargo Craft Blasts Off to Station for Sunday Delivery
Nov 17, 2018 (SPX)
At the time of launch, the International Space Station was flying about 252 statute miles over southern Kazakhstan. The resupply ship reached preliminary orbit ...
GHGSat selects Arianespace to launch GHGSat-C1 on Vega
Nov 16, 2018 (SPX)
Montreal, Canada-based GHGSat is building the GHGSat-C1 spacecraft to measure greenhouse gases emissions from industrial facilities around the world. GHGSat-C1 ...
SpaceX plans to launch 71 satellites at once
Nov 16, 2018 (Sputnik)
Dubbed the "SmallSat Express," the upcoming mission, which is scheduled to launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California at 1:32 p.m. EST Monday, will put...
SPARC Research awarded contract for hypersonic airbreathing weapon propulsion
Nov 16, 2018 (SPX)
The concept is based on advanced airbreathing propulsion technologies enabling extended flight at speeds unachievable today. Hypersonic vehicles are a future cl...
SpaceX launches communications satellite for Qatar on Falcon 9
Nov 16, 2018 (Sputnik)
"The spacecraft's multi-mission architecture will enable Es'hailSat to respond to demand for the fastest-growing applications in the Middle East and North Afric...
India launches GSLV-3 carrying GSAT-29
Nov 15, 2018 (SPX)
GSLV-Mk III which is three-stage vehicle with two solid motor strap-ons, a liquid propellant core stage and a cryogenic stage, is capable of launching 4 ton cla...
Science on the cusp: sounding rockets head north
Nov 15, 2018 (SPX)
It turns out, that's not so far from the truth. This special place is known as the northern polar cusp. It's one of only two places on Earth where particles fro...
New horizon for space transportation services
Nov 14, 2018 (ESA)
This call for ideas is part of an overall initiative within ESA to provide tools necessary to identify and promote innovation within the European space sector -...
DARPA issues contract proposition for hypersonic missile defense
Nov 14, 2018 (UPI)
"Glide Breaker will develop an enabling technology critical for an advanced interceptor capable of defeating hypersonic vehicles," DARPA said in the contract so...
First Angara A5V Heavy-Class Rocket Launch to Take Place in 2026 - Roscosmos
Nov 13, 2018 (Sputnik)
The rocket's launch was initially set to take place in 2027, according to the Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center. "On Vostochny [space center...
DARPA, Army select companies to develop hypersonic missile propulsion
Nov 12, 2018 (UPI)
Aerojet Rocketdyne, Exquadrum, and Sierra Nevada have each received contracts to begin work on design and development for the systems, DARPA announced on Friday...
Fleet Space Technologies' first satellites launched by Rocket Lab
Nov 11, 2018 (SPX)
The launch of the two CubeSats at Launch Complex-1 on New Zealand's Mahia Peninsula represent a huge step forward for Fleet Space Technologies' mission to build...
Rocket Lab reaches orbit again, deploys more satellites
Nov 11, 2018 (SPX)
Rocket Lab's Electron launch vehicle lifted-off from Launch Complex 1 on New Zealand's Mahia Peninsula at 16:50 on 11 November NZDT (03:50 UTC). After first rea...
Simulating hypersonic flow transitions from smooth to turbulent
Nov 07, 2018 (SPX)
"At hypersonic speeds, the flow is moving at high Mach numbers, but there are also wings or flaps on the vehicle. At each of those junctures, you can have very ...
Fregat Upper Stage Separates From Soyuz Carrier Bringing Satellite to Orbit
Nov 06, 2018 (Sputnik)
"The head block of the medium capacity space rocket Soyuz-2.1b, consisting of Fregat upper stage rocket and Glonass-M satellite, separated normally from the thi...
Russia plans to carry out 17 space launches in 2018
Nov 05, 2018 (Sputnik)
"If this year we have only 17 launches, then next [year] we have over 35, and 10 of them are heavy rockets," Rogozin said, adding that nine heavy rockets will b...
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