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NASA Selects Space Launch System Adapter Hardware Manufacturer
Feb 05, 2014 (SPX)
NASA has selected Teledyne Brown Engineering of Huntsville, Ala., to design and build a key component of the new Space Launch System (SLS) rocket the agency is ...
NASA Ramps Up Space Launch System Sound Suppression Testing
Jan 30, 2014 (SPX)
The first round of acoustic tests on a scale model of NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) is underway. The tests will allow engineers to verify the design of the s...
Russian Space Agency Plans World's Biggest Rocket
Jan 29, 2014 (RIA Novosti)
Russia's Roscosmos space agency is to seek government approval to build the world's largest rocket, its head said Tuesday. "I think that in the near future, wit...
Constellation is Back
Jan 24, 2014 (SPX)
Finally, just last Friday President Obama signed a new federal spending bill into law. This bill includes money to continue NASA's human space exploration progr...
VG Announces Test Firings Of New Liquid Rocket Engines
Jan 24, 2014 (SPX)
Virgin Galactic has reached a significant milestone in the testing of a new family of liquid rocket engines for LauncherOne, the company's small satellite launc...
SNC Announces First Orbital Flight of Dream Chaser
Jan 24, 2014 (SPX)
Sierra Nevada Corporation has confirmed that the first orbital flight of its Dream Chaser Space System will occur on November 1, 2016. Dream Chaser will be brou...
China confirms new hypersonic glide vehicle test-flight
Jan 20, 2014 (Voice of Russia)
China confirmed conducting a test flight of a new hypersonic missile delivery vehicle capable of delivering nuclear warheads with record breaking speeds. The mo...
Missile defense buster: China tests new hypersonic glide vehicle
Jan 19, 2014 (Voice of Russia)
China has successfully tested its first hypersonic missile delivery vehicle capable of penetrating US missile defense system and delivering nuclear warheads wit...
Excitement Building As NASA Continues Preparations For RS-25 Engine Testing
Jan 19, 2014 (SPX)
Activity is growing in the A Test Complex at NASA's Stennis Space Center in Mississippi as the agency prepares to take a giant step forward in its return to dee...
China tested hypersonic missile vehicle: US officials
Jan 16, 2014 (AFP)
China for the first time has tested a hypersonic missile vehicle designed to travel several times the speed of sound, the Pentagon said Wednesday. The test make...
Reaction Engines signs Cooperative Agreement with USAF Lab
Jan 14, 2014 (SPX)
The CRADA provides a framework to assess the performance, applications and development paths for REL's SABRE air-breathing rocket engine, a new class of aerospa...
SLS Avionics System Sees the (First) Light
Jan 12, 2014 (SPX)
The modern avionics system that will guide the most powerful rocket ever built saw the light - the "first light," that is. Hardware, software and operating syst...
Sierra Nevada Announces International Expansion of the Dream Chaser Space System
Jan 10, 2014 (SPX)
Sierra Nevada Corporation reports that it has finalized cooperative understandings with the European Space Agency (ESA) and the German Aerospace Center (DLR). S...
Facility upgrades will support X-37B program
Jan 07, 2014 (SPX)
Boeing will expand its presence in Florida by adding technology, engineering and support jobs at the Kennedy Space Center. Financial and employment details are ...
India launches cutting-edge cryogenic rocket
Jan 05, 2014 (AFP)
India on Sunday successfully launched its first rocket using domestically produced booster technology after several previous missions had failed, taking another...
MAM produces plasma cavity for Helicon Double Layer Thruster Engine
Jan 03, 2014 (SPX)
Morgan Advanced Materials has provided a prototype plasma cavity for the Helicon Double Layer Thruster (HDLT), a new gas plasma space engine for use on satellit...
Russia launches upgraded Soyuz rocket
Dec 29, 2013 (Voice of Russia)
Russia launched an upgraded version of its Soyuz rocket on Saturday, successfully delivering a scientific satellite into space. The Soyuz-2.1v light class rocke...
JAXA plans to test new large rocket from 2020
Dec 26, 2013 (JIJI)
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency plans to launch a new large-scale test rocket in fiscal 2020 and another the following year. The rocket, provisionally du...
First launch of new Soyuz rocket with redesigned engine delayed
Dec 26, 2013 (UPI)
A test launch of a Russian Soyuz rocket with a new engine design has been delayed until 2014, officials said without specifying a new date. "The launch has been...
NASA Engineers Crush Fuel Tank to Build Better Rockets
Dec 19, 2013 (SPX)
NASA completed a series of high-tech can-crushing tests last week as an enormous fuel tank crumbled under the pressure of almost a million pounds of force, all ...
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