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Aerojet Rocketdyne to develop high-powered Nested Hall Thruster system
Feb 17, 2016 (SPX)
Aerojet Rocketdyne has been awarded a contract valued at more than $2.5 million from NASA's Advanced Exploration Systems Division to develop and demonstrate a h...
SSL Advances Solar Electric Propulsion Capabilities
Feb 16, 2016 (SPX)
Space Systems Loral (SSL) has announced that it is collaborating with a U.S. technology innovator, Busek Co, Inc. to advance the current capability of solar ele...
ISRO to launch cryogenic GSLV vehicle in December
Feb 13, 2016 (IANS)
The Indian Space Research Organasion (ISRO) has confirmed that it would launch the Cryogenic mark-III based GSLV satellite launch vehicle during December this y...
The Making of a Mockup: Work Begins on NASA SLS Core Stage Pathfinder
Feb 12, 2016 (SPX)
Major work is beginning in three Alabama communities on a 213-foot, 230,000-pound simulation of the core stage of NASA's new rocket, the Space Launch System (SL...
Jerry Cook Named Deputy Director of NASA's Space Launch System Program
Feb 10, 2016 (SPX)
Jerry Cook, a native of Greensboro, Alabama, has been named deputy director of NASA's Space Launch System Program at the agency's Marshall Space Flight Center i...
NASA Team Demonstrates Loading of Swedish 'Green' Propellant
Feb 05, 2016 (SPX)
A NASA team has successfully demonstrated the handling and loading of a new-fangled, Swedish-developed "green propellant" that smells like glass cleaner, looks ...
US Senator McCain to introduce bill to end use of Russian rocket engines
Jan 28, 2016 (Sputnik)
US Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman John McCain announced during a hearing on Wednesday that he will introduce a bill aimed at ending the use of Russian...
The Path to the Pad
Jan 26, 2016 (SPX)
2016 is well underway. Another year over, another year begun. For the SLS program, it means we're even further past the halfway point toward launch readiness. I...
Bezos space firm duplicates reusable rocket breakthrough
Jan 23, 2016 (AFP)
Two months after the breakthrough launch and vertical landing of a reusable rocket, the space firm created by Internet entrepreneur Jeff Bezos did it again. The...
Russia to phase out importing Ukrainian Rocket Parts
Jan 22, 2016 (Sputnik)
Russia's Roscosmos space agency plans to gradually stop using Ukrainian-made rocket parts after a breakdown in space cooperation, the organization's spokesperso...
Last Leg of Welding Underway on Conical SLS Test Hardware
Jan 22, 2016 (SPX)
The aft cone, or bottom portion, of a test version of the launch vehicle stage adapter (LVSA) for the world's most powerful rocket, NASA's Space Launch System, ...
China to debut new carrier rockets
Jan 19, 2016 (XNA)
China will send two new models of carrier rocket in the Long March series on their maiden space trips in 2016, the China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporat...
Orbital ATK tests 3D-printed hypersonic engine combustor
Jan 19, 2016 (UPI)
Orbital ATK has announced a successful test of a 3D-printed hypersonic engine combustor at NASA Langley Research Center. The combustor tested was produced throu...
Orbital ATK Receives Award for Rocket Propulsion System Development
Jan 19, 2016 (SPX)
Orbital ATK has been awarded a $47 million contract from the U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center Launch Systems Directorate for the development of a...
Air Force awards two rocket propulsion system prototype OTAs
Jan 18, 2016 (SPX)
The Space and Missile Systems Center has awarded the first two Other Transaction Agreements (OTAs) for shared public-private investments in Rocket Propulsion Sy...
Russia developing futuristic methane-powered rocket propulsion
Jan 15, 2016 (Sputnik)
Russian federal agency Roscosmos plans to develop a natural-gas-powered rocket engine. The federal space exploration program for 2016-2025 guarantees funding fo...
Aerojet Rocketdyne to mature development of MPS-130 CubeSat propulsion system
Jan 13, 2016 (SPX)
Aerojet Rocketdyne has entered a public-private partnership with NASA to mature the development of an MPS-130 CubeSat propulsion system using a green propellant...
Second SLS Test Stand Begins Rise at NASA Marshall
Jan 12, 2016 (SPX)
A crane moves the first steel tier to be bolted into place on Jan. 6, for welding of a second new structural test stand at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center i...
Russia concludes upgraded Soyuz-2 flight tests
Dec 31, 2015 (Sputnik)
Russia's flight test commission has decided to complete testing Soyuz-2.1a and Soyuz-2.1b rockets and to hand the launch vehicles over for operation by the Defe...
Falcon 9 Succeeds in Historical First-Stage Landing - But?
Dec 29, 2015 (SPX)
On the eve of the Winter Solstice SpaceX engineers achieved a historic first achievement. The first stage of a Falcon 9 launch vehicle, after boosting the upper...
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