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Russia to create new Super-Heavy Class rocket after 2025
May 24, 2017 (Sputnik)
Russian President Vladimir Putin has asked the Roscosmos state space corporation to speed up the work to build a super-heavy class rocket, this type will appear...
ULS wins $208Mln for rocket vehicle production services
May 22, 2017 (Sputnik)
"United Launch Services LLC, Centennial, Colorado, has been awarded a $208,140,481 modification (P00163) to previously awarded contract... for launch vehicle pr...
Arianespace launches SES-15 using Soyuz rocket
May 19, 2017 (ESA)
This launch was the fifth of the year for Arianespace, and the second by Soyuz from CSG to geostationary transfer orbit (GTO), as well as the first Arianespace ...
Spaceflight buys Electron Rocket from Rocket Lab
May 18, 2017 (SPX)
The Electron is an ideal launch vehicle for dedicated and rideshare missions, especially those serving difficult-to-come-by launch destinations such as mid-incl...
Sky Skimmer: Rocket Lab Sets Date for Lightweight Spacecraft Test Launch
May 17, 2017 (Sputnik)
The launch will occur at the company's launch site on the Mahia Peninsula in New Zealand. "We are all incredibly excited to get to this point," said Rocket Lab ...
Airbus Safran Launchers to Become ArianeGroup
May 17, 2017 (SPX)
This change in identity, embodied in one of Europe's biggest successes, is the logical next step following the decision of the ESA Member States at the Minister...
Washington Still Has No Engine to Replace Russian-Made RD-180
May 17, 2017 (Sputnik)
The private company, founded by Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos, lost turbopumps and valves which provide the fuel-oxidizer mix to the injectors and combustion chambe...
ISRO to Launch GSLV Mark III, Its Heaviest Rocket Soon
May 17, 2017 (Sputnik)
Already being described as a game changer and a great leap forward for the Indian space agency's ability to launch rockets with heavier payloads, the rocket wil...
Aerojet Rocketdyne tests 3D-printed rocket
May 17, 2017 (UPI)
The series of exercises cover the performance, reliability, range and durability of 3D-manufactured engines. Aerojet Rocketdyne says these engines are an 500 pe...
Mining the moon for rocket fuel to get us to Mars
May 16, 2017 (The Conversation)
Planning expeditions to Earth's nearest celestial neighbor is no longer just a NASA effort, though the U.S. space agency has plans for a moon-orbiting space sta...
Dragon Spacecraft Prepared to Resupply International Space Station
May 16, 2017 (AFP)
The next mission to the Earth-orbiting laboratory will be the eleventh commercial resupply services flight for SpaceX. Liftoff is targeted for 5:55 p.m. EDT on ...
SpaceX launches Inmarsat communications satellite
May 16, 2017 (AFP)
The Inmarsat-5 F4 satellite, built by Boeing, blasted off atop a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida at 7:21 pm (2321 GMT). "We've had confirmation of ...
SSL satellite built for Bulgaria Sat arrives at Cape Canaveral for FOR falcon 9 launch
May 15, 2017 (SPX)
BulgariaSat-1 will be Bulgaria's first satellite. SSL is a subsidiary of MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates, Ltd., a global communications and information comp...
N. Korea's 'new missile' has unprecedented range: experts
May 15, 2017 (AFP)
Sunday's launch was of a "new ground-to-ground medium long-range strategic ballistic rocket" named the Hwasong-12, the official Korea Central News Agency (KCNA)...
Winners Announced for NASA, Orbital ATK Rocketry Challenge
May 15, 2017 (SPX)
They've proven hard work and determination pays off, literally, taking home a cash prize of $5,000, offered by Orbital ATK of Promontory, Utah, longtime corpora...
NASA Affirms Plan for First Mission of SLS, Orion
May 15, 2017 (SPX)
NASA determined it is technically capable of launching crew on EM-1, but after evaluating cost, risk and technical factors in a project of this magnitude, it wo...
Testing Prepares NASA's Space Launch System for Liftoff
May 11, 2017 (SPX)
SLS model testing in NASA Langley Research Center's 14x22-Foot Subsonic Wind Tunnel in Hampton, Virginia, is designed to simulate wind conditions. According to ...
First Contract under Booster Propulsion Technology Maturation BAA Complete
May 09, 2017 (AFNS)
The Space and Missile Systems Center awarded the Booster Propulsion BAA contracts between November 2015 to January 2016 with the objective of maturing technolog...
ISRO Successfully Launches GSAT-9 'SAARC' South Asian Communication Satellite
May 08, 2017 (IANS)
Precisely at 4:57pm, the Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV-F09) rose into the sky from the second launch pad at the Satish Dhawan Space Centre at th...
GSLV Successfully Launches South Asia Satellite
May 08, 2017 (SPX)
This is the fourth consecutive success achieved by GSLV carrying indigenously developed Cryogenic Upper Stage. In its oval shaped GTO, the South Asia Satellite ...
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