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Test site for ESA-backed airbreathing engine
May 05, 2017 (ESA)
The Synergistic Air-Breathing Rocket Engine is uniquely designed to scoop up atmospheric air during the early part of its flight to orbit. This slashes the need...
Reaction Engines begins construction of UK rocket engine test facility
May 05, 2017 (SPX)
The test facility at Westcott, Buckinghamshire, will enable Reaction Engines to test critical subsystems along with the testing of a SABRE engine core, which wi...
Arianespace orbits telecom satellites for Brazil and South Korea
May 04, 2017 (ESA)
The launch took place on Tuesday, May 4 at 6:50 pm (local time) from the Guiana Space Center, Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. Today's launch was th...
Strike-delayed European rocket launch to go ahead
May 03, 2017 (AFP)
An Ariane 5 rocket is set to hoist two telecommunications satellites, one South Korean and the other Brazilian, into Earth orbit from Europe's space port in Kou...
SpaceX makes first US military launch, then lands rocket again
May 01, 2017 (AFP)
The payload for the National Reconnaissance Office, which makes and operates spy satellites for the United States, soared into the sky atop a Falcon 9 rocket at...
India to launch GSAT-9 communication satellite on May 5: ISRO
May 01, 2017 (IANS)
According to Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), the GSAT-9 communication satellite is being launched with an objective to provide different communicatio...
SpaceX launches classified payload for NRO; 1st Stage returns to LZ-1
May 01, 2017 (AFP)
The payload for the National Reconnaissance Office, which makes and operates spy satellites for the United States, soared into the sky atop a Falcon 9 rocket at...
SpaceX postpones classified US military launch until Monday
Apr 30, 2017 (AFP)
"Out of an abundance of caution we have decided to scrub today's launch," a SpaceX spokesman said, describing the issue as relating to the first stage of the Fa...
RSC Energia, Boeing Hammer Out a Deal on Sea Launch Project
Apr 27, 2017 (Sputnik)
"The settlement came into effect on February 22, and a joint claim was made by Boeing and RSC Energia on March 16. The California court made a final decision to...
New Russian Medium-Class Carrier Rocket Could Compete With SpaceX's Falcon
Apr 27, 2017 (Sputnik)
"RSC Energia proposes the development of a new medium-class launch vehicle for launches from Baikonur and Vostochny cosmodromes, as well as from the Sea Launch,...
India seeks status as a major space power with more satellite launches
Apr 26, 2017 (Sputnik)
"Earlier, we were doing 2-3 (launches) per year, then we increased it to 4-5, last few years we have been doing seven launches. Now, we are trying to go up to 8...
Aerojet Rocketdyne completes qualification tests on reusable rocket engine
Apr 24, 2017 (SPX)
The tests were conducted on Aerojet Rocketdyne's MR-104J hydrazine monopropellant engine in Redmond, Washington. For NASA service missions to the International ...
Russian MoD to Further Develop Plesetsk Cosmodrome Infrastructure
Apr 24, 2017 (Sputnik)
According to the minister, the infrastructure on Plesetsk Cosmodrome has significantly improved in recent years, currently allowing Russia to launch satellites ...
Airbus Safran Launchers initiates production of the Ariane 6 ground qualification models
Apr 24, 2017 (SPX)
The review confirmed that the maturity of the industrialization of Ariane 6 is sufficient to begin production of the ground qualification models for the future ...
India to Launch Carrier Rocket With Higher Payload Capacity in May
Apr 24, 2017 (Sputnik)
"Next month, we have scheduled the launch of GSLV-Mk III-D1," Kumar said, as cited by the PTI news agency. The GSLV-Mk III-D1, or Geosynchronous Satellite Launc...
45th SW supports Atlas V OA-7 launch
Apr 20, 2017 (SPX)
The Atlas V rocket is carrying Cygnus cargo vessel OA-7, the S.S. John Glenn, on the seventh operational cargo delivery flight to the International Space Statio...
Alaska Aerospace Pursuing Asian Small Satellite Launch Market
Apr 20, 2017 (SPX)
As part of the itinerary, the delegation toured the headquarters and manufacturing facility of Interstellar Technologies. Interstellar Technologies is a Japanes...
Creation of carrier rocket for Baiterek Space Complex to cost Russia $500Mln
Apr 19, 2017 (Sputnik)
The creation of a carrier rocket for the joint Russian-Kazakh Baiterek Space Complex at the Baikonur cosmodrome will approximately cost Russia $500 million, whi...
Russia and US woo Brazil, hope to use advantageous base for space launches
Apr 19, 2017 (Sputnik)
Brazilian Defense Minister Raul Jungmann said that Russia, France, the United States and Israel have signaled their willingness to use Brazil's Alcantara Launch...
Europe's largest sounding rocket launched from Esrange
Apr 10, 2017 (SPX)
MAXUS 9, Europe's largest sounding rocket for experiments in microgravity, successfully lifted off from SSC's (Swedish Space Corporation's) launch facility Esra...
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