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SpaceX set to launch again Monday
Jan 06, 2017 (AFP)
SpaceX plans to resume flights of its Falcon 9 rocket on Monday, after pinning down the cause of a launchpad explosion that destroyed a satellite in September, ...
Arianespace to launch JCSAT-17 for SKY Perfect JSAT
Jan 06, 2017 (SPX)
Japanese operator SKY Perfect JSAT Corporation has chosen Arianespace to launch its JCSAT-17 telecommunications satellite. On January 4, 2017 Arianespace announ...
Arianespace to launch Intelsat 39
Jan 06, 2017 (SPX)
Arianespace has announced that it will launch Intelsat 39 for Intelsat, one of the world's largest satellite operators. Intelsat 39 will provide broadband netwo...
Mission contracts secure Commercial Crew operations for coming years
Jan 04, 2017 (SPX)
NASA took another big step to ensure reliable crew transportation to the International Space Station into the next decade. The agency's Commercial Crew Program ...
NASA testing SLS for transonic behavior
Jan 04, 2017 (SPX)
Tucked away in Hampton, Virginia, is a 56-year-old NASA wind tunnel capable of generating winds speeds of up to 900 miles per hour. In its lifetime, the Transon...
SpaceX sets launch date for Falcon 9 RTF
Jan 03, 2017 (AFP)
SpaceX says it has determined the cause of a launchpad explosion that destroyed a satellite in September and is ready to start launches again as early as Sunday...
SpaceX ready to launch again
Jan 03, 2017 (AFP)
SpaceX says it has determined the cause of a launchpad explosion that destroyed a satellite in September and is ready to start launches again as early as Sunday...
SpaceX concluded accident investigation, to start launching rockets again
Jan 02, 2017 (UPI)
SpaceX has identified the anomaly responsible for the explosion of its Falcon 9 rocket on Sept. 1, 2016, and is now ready to resume its launch schedule starting...
Russia won't be leaving Baikonur anytime soon
Jan 01, 2017 (Sputnik)
This week, Russia and Kazakhstan signed a cooperation agreement extending Russia's use of Kazakhstan's Baikonur Cosmodrome. According to experts, there are a nu...
Russia to double number of space launches in 2017
Jan 01, 2017 (Sputnik)
Director-General Igor Komarov said that Russia's state space corporation Roscosmos plans to launch twice as many rockets into space in 2017 as in the outgoing y...
India to develop large scale solid fuel mixer
Dec 29, 2016 (SPX)
Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) uses solid motors of 139 ton capacity for PSLV/GSLV flights and 200 ton capacity for the GSLV Mk III flights as part o...
Europe and Russia looking at Space Tug Project
Dec 29, 2016 (Sputnik)
Europe's largest aerospace group Airbus Defence and Space (Airbus DS) plans to help the Russian Rocket and Space Corporation (RSC) Energia in the practical impl...
New round of wind tunnel tests underway for bigger SLS version
Dec 26, 2016 (SPX)
As engines are fired, software written and hardware welded to prepare for the first flight of NASA's Space Launch System (SLS), engineers are already running te...
Preparing to Plug Into NASA SLS Fuel Tank
Dec 23, 2016 (SPX)
A team prepares a robot - the yellow machine attached to the liquid hydrogen tank for the Space Launch System rocket - for friction plug welding at NASA's Micho...
United Launch Alliance launches EchoStar XIX satellite
Dec 21, 2016 (SPX)
A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket carrying the EchoStar XIX satellite lifted off from Space Launch Complex-41 Dec. 18 at 2:13 p.m. EST. EchoStar XIX...
Ultra-Cold Storage - Liquid Hydrogen may be Fuel of the Future
Dec 16, 2016 (SPX)
When NASA saved a shuttle-era storage facility at the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida from demolition five years ago, engineers already had future in m...
NASA Engineers Test Combustion Chamber to Advance 3-D Printed Rocket Engine Design
Dec 13, 2016 (SPX)
Recent tests of a developmental rocket engine at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, produced all the performance data engineers were ho...
Technical glitch postpones NASA satellite launch
Dec 12, 2016 (AFP)
A technical problem on Monday delayed the planned launch for at least 24 hours of a series of NASA satellites designed to study hurricanes, the US space agency ...
After glitch, NASA satellite launch set for Wednesday
Dec 12, 2016 (AFP)
A technical problem has delayed until Wednesday the planned launch of a series of NASA satellites designed to study hurricanes, officials said Monday. The new, ...
Allegations Rocket Engine Failure Behind Progress Spacecraft Crash Incorrect
Dec 09, 2016 (Sputnik)
Information alleging that the Russian Progress MS-04 cargo spacecraft crashed after an emergency stop of an engine of the third stage of the Soyuz-U carrier roc...
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