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Iran in 'successful' test of satellite-launch rocket
Jul 27, 2017 (AFP)
It said the launch vehicle, named Simorgh after a bird in Iranian mythology, was capable of propelling a satellite weighing 250 kilograms (550 pounds) to an alt...
Aerojet Rocketdyne's RS-25 Flight Controller Goes Three for Three in SLS Test
Jul 27, 2017 (SPX)
The RS-25 engine will propel America's next-generation heavy lift rocket, the Space Launch System (SLS), into space. The flight controller tested is slated to f...
Navy completes testing fixes on electro-magnetic launch systems
Jul 27, 2017 (UPI)
The Navy conducted 71 launch tests at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst in New Jersey earlier this summer. F/A-18E/F Super Hornet fighters and EA-18G Growler ele...
Three Up, Three Down as NASA Tests RS-25 Flight Controller
Jul 27, 2017 (SPX)
The test involved installing the controller unit on an RS-25 development engine and firing it in the same manner, and for the same length of time, as needed dur...
Vega to launch two Earth Observation Satellites for Italy, Israel and France
Jul 26, 2017 (ESA)
This marks the seventh Earth observation mission for the versatile Vega launch vehicle. The launch will be performed from the Vega Launch Complex (ZLV) in Kouro...
Russia to Supply Largest Ever Number of Space Rocket Engines to US This Year
Jul 21, 2017 (Sputnik)
In 2014, the US Congress strictly limited future purchases of Russian RD-180 engines used in Atlas launch vehicles since 2000 at a time when it imposed economic...
Elon Musk says successful maiden flight for Falcon Heavy unlikely
Jul 20, 2017 (AFP)
Development of the booster rocket, which is powered by 27 engines, has proven to be "way harder than the team initially thought," he told the International Spac...
ISRO Develops Ship-Based Antenna System to Track Satellite Launches
Jul 18, 2017 (Sputnik)
ISRO Telemetry, Tracking and Command Network (ISTRAC)'s 4.6-meter ship-borne antenna system has been built indigenously and consists of three-axis Antenna Mount...
Spiky ferrofluid thrusters can move satellites
Jul 12, 2017 (SPX)
He is the lead author of a recent article in Physics of Fluids, "Ionic Liquid Ferrofluid Interface Deformation and Spray Onset Under Electric and Magnetic Stres...
Hypersonic Travel Possibility Heats Up Massively After New Material Discovery
Jul 10, 2017 (Sputnik)
Hypersonic travel is defined as moving at Mach five or above - at least five times faster than the speed of sound. While a historic aspiration of aviation profe...
Aerojet Rocketdyne tests Advanced Electric Propulsion System
Jul 10, 2017 (SPX)
"The Power Processing Unit successfully demonstrated stable operation of the propulsion system and responded appropriately to all of our planned contingency sce...
Dragon Splashes Down to Complete Resupply Mission
Jul 07, 2017 (SPX)
Expedition 52 astronauts Jack Fischer and Peggy Whitson of NASA released the SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft from the International Space Station's robotic arm r...
Russia to Carry Out Five Launches From Vostochny Space Center in 2018
Jul 07, 2017 (Sputnik)
Vostochny is expected to reduce Russia's dependency on the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan. Baikonur is on lease to Russia until 2050. "First two, then five...
On the road to creating an electrodeless spacecraft propulsion engine
Jul 07, 2017 (SPX)
Magnetic fields stretched by plasma flows, resulting in an increase in the field component along the plasma flow, can be frequently observed in space. By contra...
After two delays, SpaceX launches broadband satellite for IntelSat
Jul 05, 2017 (AFP)
The satellite, known as IntelSat 35e, soared into the blue sky over Cape Canaveral at 7:38 pm (2338 GMT), riding a Falcon 9 rocket to a distant, geostationary o...
Aerojet Rocketdyne advocates solar electric propulsion as central element of deep space exploration
Jul 03, 2017 (SPX)
During testimony before the Subcommittee on Space in the U.S. House of Representatives, Joe Cassady, executive director for Space Programs at Aerojet Rocketdyne...
Ariane 5 launch proves reliability and flies new fairing
Jul 03, 2017 (ESA)
Liftoff came at 21:15 GMT (18:15 local time, 23:15 CEST) last night from Kourou, French Guiana on a mission lasting about 39 minutes to deliver Hellas Sat 3-Inm...
ArianeGroup starts production of VINCI engine combustion chamber
Jun 29, 2017 (SPX)
Construction was begun following more than 120 successful tests, using development models. This is a key step towards the success of the first Ariane 6 flight, ...
80th consecutive success for Ariane 5 with launch of Hellas Sat, Inmarsat and ISRO
Jun 28, 2017 (SPX)
The launch took place on Wednesday, June 28 at 6:15 p.m. (local time), from the Guiana Space Center (CSG), Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana (South America). ...
N. Korea conducts rocket engine test: report
Jun 28, 2017 (AFP)
The respected 38 North analysis group however said it was not clear whether the test, conducted at the North's Sohae satellite launch site, involved an ICBM eng...
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