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JPL to Test New Supersonic Decelerator Technology
Dec 19, 2013 (JPL)
A giant crane will tower above NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., shooting out of a hilly mesa like an oversized erector set, ready to help t...
SLS Chief Engineer Driven by 'Challenge' of Building America's Next Great Rocket
Dec 19, 2013 (SPX)
During the Saturn V days, a 10-year-old boy came to NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., with his dad and uncle for an open house. There to ...
NASA Engineers Crush Giant Fuel Tank To Improve Rocket Design
Dec 11, 2013 (SPX)
Think of it as high-tech can crushing. Only the can is enormous, as big as part of the largest rocket ever made. During a series of tests from Dec. 9-13 at NASA...
'Solutions' necessary for rocket accidents
Dec 06, 2013 (XNA)
Experts have called for an insurance plan to cover damage caused by space launches and re-entries after two houses were damaged by rocket wreckage in Hunan prov...
Blue Origin Test-Fires New Rocket Engine
Dec 06, 2013 (SPX)
NASA commercial crew partner Blue Origin of Kent, Wash., announced it has tested a new, hydrogen- and oxygen-fueled engine designed to lift the company's crewed...
South Korea to launch homegrown rocket by 2020
Nov 27, 2013 (XNA)
South Korea plans to launch its homegrown space launch vehicles to put a satellite in orbit by 2020, the government said Tuesday. The National Space Committee o...
XCOR and ULA Achieve Major Milestone With Liquid Hydrogen Engine
Nov 22, 2013 (SPX)
XCOR and ULA have reported their first successful hot fire of the subscale 2500 lbf thrust XR-5H25 engine in the XCOR and ULA liquid hydrogen (LH2) engine devel...
Wind Tunnel Testing Used to Understand the Unsteady Side of Aerodynamics
Nov 07, 2013 (SPX)
Think about a time you've been a passenger in a car and stuck your hand out the window. As your speed increases, so do the vibrations in your hand. Trying to ke...
NASA and Sweden to test High Performance Green Propulsion technology
Oct 31, 2013 (SPX)
The Swedish National Space Board (SNSB) and the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) have signed a bilateral cooperative agreement for NASA...
Russia Mulls Development of New Super-Heavy Carrier Rocket
Oct 30, 2013 (RIA Novosti)
Russia's Federal Space Agency, Roscosmos, is to discuss with leading Russian scientists development of a new launch vehicle capable of carrying up payloads to 7...
Long March-3, Chang'e probes vital to space program
Oct 29, 2013 (XNA)
Long March-3 carrier rockets have played a crucial role in launching China's Chang'e space probes, and form a central pillar of China's overall space program. T...
Dream Chaser Free-Flight Test Report
Oct 28, 2013 (SPX)
Sierra Nevada Corporation has performed its first free-flight approach-and-landing test of the Dream Chaser spacecraft. The vehicle successfully released from i...
Orbital Completes COTS Demonstration Mission to ISS
Oct 24, 2013 (SPX)
Orbital Sciences reports that its Cygnus cargo logistics spacecraft reentered Earth's atmosphere over the Pacific Ocean east of New Zealand at approximately 2:1...
Spacecraft Integration, Assembly and Test
Oct 23, 2013 (SPX)
One would think that spacecraft assembly, integration and test (AI and T) is a well known process, designed and executed very efficiently by professionals after...
Hardware Ready for Pressure Testing in Preparation for Orion Launch
Oct 23, 2013 (SPX)
The design and fabrication of critical flight hardware that will be used to keep NASA's Orion spacecraft safe during launch was recently completed at Janicki In...
ESA drives forward with all-electric telecom satellites
Oct 21, 2013 (ESA)
ESA is set to begin developing a new generation of satellites propelled by solar electric thrusters, following the signing of a contract with SES of Luxembourg ...
Russian booster 'not the culprit in saiga kill'
Oct 11, 2013 (Voice of Russia)
The Kazakh government does not link recent kills of saiga antelopes to the launch activity at the Russian spaceport of Baikonur in central Kazakhstan. According...
Proton booster back in service after mishap
Oct 03, 2013 (Voice of Russia)
According to an announcement made by officials at the Russian spaceport of Baikonur in Kazakhstan, the remainder of this year should see four satellite launches...
XCOR And ULA Complete Critical Milestone In Liquid Hydrogen Engine Program
Sep 25, 2013 (SPX)
XCOR Aerospace and United Launch Alliance announced significant progress today in the XCOR/ULA liquid hydrogen (LH2) engine development program. "We are happy t...
Wind Tunnel Testing Used to Ensure SLS Will 'Breeze' Through Liftoff
Sep 23, 2013 (SPX)
Environmental factors, like wind gusts, can factor into an aircraft's performance. NASA's new heavy-lift launch vehicle, the Space Launch System (SLS), is no ex...
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