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Elon Musk shares new photos of Falcon Heavy Rocket
Dec 20, 2017 (UPI)
On Wednesday, SpaceX's founder shared a series of images of the company's biggest rocket on Twitter. The images showcase the new rocket from a trio of angles. S...
ArianeGroup to start production of the first Ariane 62
Dec 19, 2017 (SPX)
Ariane 6 is specifically designed to be able to respond to evolving market demands. It will be a versatile, modular, competitive launcher, available in two vers...
Ariane 5 to loft Heinrich Hertz technology demonstrator satellite
Dec 18, 2017 (SPX)
The satellite will be orbited by an Ariane 5 heavy-lift launcher from the Guiana Space Center, Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, between mid-2021 and...
ArianeGroup signs contract with ESA for future Prometheus engine
Dec 17, 2017 (SPX)
The aim is to be able to build future liquid propellant engines with a unit cost of about 1 million euros, or 10 times less than the cost of producing existing ...
In first, SpaceX launches recycled rocket and spaceship
Dec 15, 2017 (AFP)
After the launch, the California-based company headed by Internet tycoon Elon Musk landed its rocket booster upright on solid ground at Cape Canaveral, Florida....
RS-25 Engine Test is Giant Step for 3-D Printing
Dec 15, 2017 (SPX)
"This test demonstrates the viability of using additive manufacturing to produce even the most complex components in one of the world's most reliable rocket eng...
Russia's Fregat Upper Stage Fail Caused by Incorrect Software Operation
Dec 13, 2017 (Sputnik)
The reason for the fall of the Fregat upper stage with 19 satellites into the Atlantic Ocean was incorrect operational software, the first deputy chief of Russi...
Ariane 5 rocket takes off with European GPS satellites
Dec 12, 2017 (AFP)
The European space workhorse took off at 1836 GMT and deployed the satellites four hours after launch. The Galileo programme, when complete, will have 30 satell...
Russian space agency blames satellite loss on programming error
Dec 12, 2017 (AFP)
On November 28 Russia lost contact with its Meteor-M weather satellite after its launch from the new Vostochny cosmodrome -- only the second such launch since t...
Nozzle Assemblies Complete for Exploration Mission-1 Solid Rocket Boosters
Dec 11, 2017 (SPX)
SLS, the world's most powerful rocket, and Orion will take humans on deep space missions, and the boosters provide most of the power to get the spacecraft off t...
Rocket Lab makes another attempt at rocket launch in New Zealand
Dec 11, 2017 (UPI)
The launch window will reopen Monday night at 8:30 p.m. EST -- 2:30 p.m. on Tuesday in New Zealand -- where the launch will take place. "The Rocket Lab launch t...
Rocket Lab to launch rocket from New Zealand
Dec 07, 2017 (UPI)
The four-hour launch window was originally supposed to open at 8:30 p.m. ET on Thursday -- Friday in New Zealand, where the rocket will launch from. The new win...
SpaceX's Elon Musk to launch his own car into deep space
Dec 06, 2017 (AFP)
Many wondered if Musk was joking last week when he tweeted his plans for the Falcon Heavy's inaugural payload to be his "midnight cherry Tesla Roadster playing ...
ISRO eyes one rocket launch a month in 2018
Nov 30, 2017 (IANS)
"For 2018-19 and 2019-20 financial years, we are looking to receive increased budgets from the country in view of the missions," he told media on the sidelines ...
Russia to build launch pad for super heavy-lift carrier by 2028
Nov 29, 2017 (Sputnik)
Russia plans to build a launch pad for its "super heavy-lift rocket by 2028," Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said at a government meeting. In Augu...
SSTL ships CARBONITE-2 and Telesat's LEO-1 for PSLV launch
Nov 28, 2017 (SPX)
LEO-1 will be one of two Telesat Phase 1 satellites planned for launch this year that will allow Telesat to start testing key performance parameters of its next...
Russia launches second rocket from new cosmodrome
Nov 28, 2017 (AFP)
Marking another milestone after the inaugural liftoff last year, the Soyuz rocket carrying a weather satellite and other equipment took off at 2:41pm local time...
Russia loses contact with satellite after launch from new spaceport
Nov 28, 2017 (AFP)
The glitch is a fresh embarrassment for Russia's beleaguered space programme which has suffered a series of setbacks over recent years as Moscow seeks to ease d...
Flat-Earther's self-launch plan hits a snag
Nov 27, 2017 (Sputnik)
Hughes said he was postponing the flight, scheduled for Saturday, after he failed to get permission from the Bureau of Land Management to conduct it on public l...
Aerojet Rocketdyne Supports ULA Delta II Launch of Joint Polar Satellite System-1
Nov 21, 2017 (SPX)
The mission will provide sophisticated meteorological data and observations of atmosphere, ocean and land to help NOAA's National Weather Service improve the 3 ...
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