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China's New Hypersonic Strike Vehicle Takes Flight Again
Dec 08, 2014 (Sputnik)
China has conducted yet another test of its new Hypersonic Glide Vehicle (HGV) dubbed by the Pentagon WU-14, according to The Washington Free Beacon website. Th...
HAL to make cryogenic engine for ISRO
Dec 03, 2014 (IANS)
Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL) on Monday said it will manufacture cryogenic engine to launch heavy rockets by the Indian space agency for carrying heaver satel...
India to launch advanced rocket next month
Dec 01, 2014 (XNA)
India will test launch an advanced rocket next month, a senior space official said Sunday. "The state-owned Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) will test ...
Russia's Angara Space Rocket Tests to End in 2020: Defense Ministry
Dec 01, 2014 (Sputnik News)
Tests of new Russian ecologically clean space rocket Angara will end in 2020, Russia's Aerospace Defense Forces commander Lt. Gen. Alexander Golovko said Saturd...
Process converts human waste into rocket fuel
Nov 27, 2014 (SPX)
Buck Rogers surely couldn't have seen this one coming, but at NASA's request, University of Florida researchers have figured out how to turn human waste -- yes,...
Scientists develop process to turn human waste into rocket fuel
Nov 26, 2014 (UPI)
It sounded like an immature April Fool's joke, but it wasn't. NASA really did want researchers at the University of Florida to figure out a way to turn human ex...
NASA Selects Student Teams for High-Powered Rocket Challenge
Nov 21, 2014 (SPX)
NASA has selected eight teams from middle and high schools across the country to participate in the 2014-2015 NASA Student Launch Challenge, April 7-12, organiz...
European space plane set for February launch: firm
Nov 21, 2014 (AFP)
Europe's first-ever "space plane" will be launched on February 11 next year, rocket firm Arianespace said Friday after a three-month delay to fine-tune the miss...
3-D Printed Engine Parts Withstand Hot Fire Tests
Nov 14, 2014 (SPX)
Today's innovations in science and technology are being driven by new capabilities in additive manufacturing. Also known as 3-D printing, this approach is chang...
Space pilot 'unbuckled' himself as craft split apart
Nov 12, 2014 (AFP)
The surviving pilot of the Virgin Galactic spaceship that crashed last month unbuckled himself and was thrown free from the disintegrating craft, investigators ...
Swiss Space Systems concludes first phase of drop-tests
Nov 11, 2014 (SPX)
Swiss Space Systems (S3) has concluded the first phase of a drop-test flight campaign with the help of Canadore College and its partners in North Bay. These fir...
Orion launch to test human flight risks in deep space
Nov 06, 2014 (AFP)
With memories still fresh of two commercial space flight accidents in the past 10 days, NASA is readying its first test flight of the Orion spacecraft that coul...
The Little Engine that Could
Nov 06, 2014 (SPX)
The Price Induction DGEN model 380 turbofan engine rolled into the NASA Glenn Aero-Acoustic Propulsion Laboratory on the back of a flatbed truck recently to see...
Orbital likely to discontinue using Russian rocket engine
Nov 06, 2014 (RIA Novosti)
The US manufacturer of fallen unmanned cargo spacecraft Antares is likely to discontinue using the Russian rocket engine that it believes to be the cause of the...
Orbital blames rocket engine failure for launchpad blast
Nov 05, 2014 (AFP)
Orbital Sciences Corporation said Wednesday a preliminary probe into last month's unmanned rocket blast shows an engine failure was to blame for the explosion s...
NTSB reveals spaceship crash timeline, fingers lever
Nov 04, 2014 (AFP)
Investigators gave a precise timeline late Monday of the devastating Virgin Galactic spaceship crash, detailing exactly when a slowing mechanism was wrongly dep...
Virgin boss hits out after safety warning claim
Nov 03, 2014 (AFP)
Questions about why the Virgin Galactic spaceship crashed switched focus Monday to a prematurely-deployed lever on the doomed flight, as Virgin's boss suggested...
Virgin 'ignored' space safety warnings: expert
Nov 03, 2014 (AFP)
Virgin Galactic "ignored" repeated warnings in the years leading up to the deadly crash of its spacecraft in California, a rocket science safety expert said Sun...
Branson says 'no explosion' behind spacecraft crash
Nov 03, 2014 (AFP)
Richard Branson, the British billionaire founder of Virgin Galactic, on Monday hit out against "self-proclaimed experts" asserting an explosion was behind the c...
Probe of US spaceship crash may take 'year'
Nov 02, 2014 (AFP)
Authorities who Saturday carried out their first full day of investigation into a US spacecraft crash that killed one pilot and seriously injured another said p...
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