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Antares rocket launch failed due to possible engine flaw

Oct 31, 2014 (RIA Novosti)

The Antares rocket and Cygnus cargo ship, carrying supplies to the International Space Station (ISS) from NASA facility in Virginia, exploded during launch due ...

Orbital Sciences Considers Replacing Russian Engine Used on Antares

Oct 31, 2014 (RIA Novosti)

The Orbital Sciences Corporation, that built and launched Antares supply rocket crashed in Virginia, may replace the spacecraft's current AJ-26 Russian rocket e...

Getting to Know You, Rocket Edition: Interim Cryogenic Propulsion Stage

Oct 31, 2014 (SPX)

Some elements of a rocket can be familiar, like the boosters and engines. But there are several important parts on NASA's new rocket, the Space Launch System (S...

Supersonic Laser-Propelled Rockets

Oct 30, 2014 (SPX)

Scientists and science fiction writers alike have dreamt of aircrafts that are propelled by beams of light rather than conventional fuels. Now, a new method for...

Decades-old Soviet engines powered US rocket that exploded

Oct 29, 2014 (AFP)

The Orbital Sciences rocket that exploded after launch was powered by a pair of rocket engines that were made during the Soviet era and refurbished, experts sai...

Rocket failure casts spotlight on risks of space flight

Oct 29, 2014 (AFP)

The explosion of a privately owned rocket on its way toward the International Space Station cast a spotlight on the risks involved with NASA's reliance on the f...

Orbital rocket explodes after launch

Oct 28, 2014 (AFP)

An unmanned rocket owned by Orbital Sciences Corporation exploded Tuesday in a giant fireball and plummeted back to Earth just seconds after launch on what was ...

Russian Space Agency to Receive Designs of Super-Heavy Carrier Rocket by Year-End

Oct 27, 2014 (RIA Novosti)

Russia's Federal Space Agency Roscosmos will receive technical suggestions in creating the country's super-heavy carrier rockets by the end of 2014, an agency d...

Space Launch System Booster Separation Testing Brings Confidence to First Flight

Oct 27, 2014 (SPX)

It's a familiar phrase heard just before a rocket launches at NASA's Kennedy Space Center or Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. Throughout history, mi...

Novel Rocket Design Flight Tested

Oct 27, 2014 (SPX)

Los Alamos National Laboratory scientists recently flight tested a new rocket design that includes a high-energy fuel and a motor design that also delivers a hi...

Europe postpones launch of first 'space plane'

Oct 24, 2014 (AFP)

Europe said Friday it was postponing the launch next month of its first-ever "space plane" to give scientists time to finetune the mission's flight plan. Dubbed...

ESA spaceplane progressing towards Vega launch

Oct 23, 2014 (ESA)

Europe's Intermediate eXperimental Vehicle (IXV) spaceplane has completed another step in its pre-launch checkout process, and is now being readied for fueling ...

Descent Data May Help With Future Mars Landings

Oct 21, 2014 (SPX)

NASA successfully captured thermal images of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on its descent after it launched in September from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Flo...

NASA Partners with X-37B Program for Use of Former Space Shuttle Hangars

Oct 11, 2014 (SPX)

NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida has entered into an agreement with the U.S. Air Force's X-37B Program for use of the center's Orbiter Processing Facility...

NASA's Space Power Facility Getting Ready to Shake Orion Up

Oct 08, 2014 (SPX)

What does it feel like to sit on top of a rocket with 8.6 million pounds of thrust? A table in Sandusky, Ohio, could give you a taste. The 22-foot-wide, 55,000-...

Rocket fuel freeze caused EU satellite mislaunch: probe

Oct 08, 2014 (AFP)

Fuel that froze on a Russian Soyuz rocket caused two satellites from Europe's troubled Galileo navigation system to be placed into the wrong orbit in August, an...

NASA's Orion Spacecraft, Rocket Move Closer to First Flight

Oct 06, 2014 (SPX)

NASA's new Orion spacecraft and the Delta IV Heavy rocket that will carry it into space are at their penultimate stops in Florida on their path to a December fl...

NASA-Funded Rocket Has Six Minutes to Study Solar Heating

Sep 30, 2014 (SPX)

On Sept. 30, 2014, a sounding rocket will fly up into the sky - past Earth's atmosphere that obscures certain wavelengths of light from the sun -- for a 15-minu...

Delta IV Booster Integration Another Step Toward First Orion Flight

Sep 29, 2014 (SPX)

Engineers took another step forward in preparations for the first test flight of NASA's new Orion spacecraft, in December. The three primary core elements of th...

Analyst: US to Finish Human Space Launcher by 2018 at Best

Sep 22, 2014 (RIA Novosti)

It will take the United States a long time to complete its project to launch spacecraft with American astronauts into orbit from US soil, following the country'...