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Space Launch System Program Kicks Off Preliminary Design Review
Jun 21, 2013 (SPX)
NASA is beginning a preliminary design review for its Space Launch System (SLS). This major program assessment will allow development of the agency's new heavy-...
Companies to merge expertise for space program products
Jun 20, 2013 (UPI)
Sierra Nevada Corporation plans to acquire Orbital Technologies Corporation, a sub-systems integrator and high-tech company. Under a definitive agreement, ORBIT...
Russia to Unveil New Piloted Spacecraft at MAKS Airshow
Jun 18, 2013 (RIA Novosti)
A mock-up of Russia's new piloted spacecraft will be showcased in August at the MAKS airshow near Moscow, Russia's space chief said Friday. The new craft, being...
Students and Teachers Become Rocket Scientists at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility
Jun 18, 2013 (SPX)
More than 120 students and educators will delve into the world of rocket science June 15-21 during Rocket Week at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility on Virginia's E...
Laser and photon propulsion improve spacecraft maneuverability
Jun 11, 2013 (SPX)
Y.K. Bae Corporation proposes to adapt state-of-the-art high power lasers to dramatically expand applications for photon thrust in spacecraft propulsion. Curren...
Sierra Nevada Corporation Begins Dream Chaser Main Hybrid Rocket Motor Testing
Jun 11, 2013 (SPX)
Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) announces the successful start of the latest phase of hybrid rocket motor qualification testing for the Dream Chaser flight vehi...
NASA again delays flying saucer test
Jun 11, 2013 (UPI)
For the fourth time in a week, NASA is postponing the inaugural launch of the Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator (LDSD), a flying saucer prototype the space age...
Production of Key Equipment Paves Way for NASA SLS RS-25 Testing
Jun 07, 2013 (SPX)
NASA plans to begin testing RS-25 engines for its new Space Launch System (SLS) in the fall of 2014, and the agency's Stennis Space Center in Mississippi has a ...
Boeing Completes Commercial Crew Spacecraft And Rocket Milestones
Jun 02, 2013 (SPX)
The Boeing Company of Houston, a NASA Commercial Crew Program (CCP) partner, recently performed wind tunnel testing of its CST-100 spacecraft and integrated lau...
Boeing X-51A WaveRider Sets Record with Successful Fourth Flight
May 31, 2013 (SPX)
X-51A WaveRider unmanned hypersonic vehicle achieved the longest air-breathing, scramjet-powered hypersonic flight in history May 1, flying for three and a half...
SNC's Hybrid Rocket Engines Power SpaceShipTwo on its First Powered Flight Test
May 31, 2013 (SPX)
Sierra Nevada Corporation's (SNC) Space Systems is proud to announce that its Hybrid Rocket Motor propelled Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo (SS2) sub-orbital veh...
Adapter 'Flips' for Progress Toward 2014 Exploration Flight Test
May 24, 2013 (SPX)
Engineers at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., recently flipped an adapter -- no easy feat when you're talking about 1,000 pounds of alum...
New method for producing clean hydrogen
May 24, 2013 (SPX)
Duke University engineers have developed a novel method for producing clean hydrogen, which could prove essential to weaning society off of fossil fuels and the...
Girl expelled from school for exploding experiment going to space camp
May 23, 2013 (UPI)
A Florida girl expelled from school after her science experiment exploded will be going to space camp with the help of a former NASA manager, officials said. Ki...
Aerojet Rocketdyne, Dynetics to collaborate more fully
May 20, 2013 (UPI)
Aerojet Rocketdyne and Dynetics have agreed to a strategic partnership to enhance collaboration in developing and providing aerospace technologies and systems. ...
Sierra Nevada Corporation Dream Chaser Testing Begins at NASA Dryden, Langley
May 20, 2013 (SPX)
Sierra Nevada Corporation's (SNC) Space Systems Dream Chaser flight vehicle arrived at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center in Edwards, Calif., Wednesday to beg...
ATK Hoping Tp Clean Up Rocketscience
May 20, 2013 (SPX)
ATK has completed the first U.S.-based testing of the High Performance Green Propulsion (HPGP) thruster technology for the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSF...
A-1 Test Stand Houses First Full Engine in Nearly a Decade
May 17, 2013 (SPX)
Engineers install J-2X engine E10002 in the A-1 test stand at NASA's Stennis Space Center. The installation is in preparation for a new series of tests, where t...
Space tourism won't hurt environment: Branson
May 13, 2013 (AFP)
British billionaire Richard Branson said Monday that rocket-powered space tourism flights by his firm Virgin Galactic would have only a minor impact on climate ...
AFOSR-funded research key to revolutionary 'green' spacecraft propellant
May 08, 2013 (SPX)
In 2015, NASA, for the first time, will fly a space mission utilizing a radically different propellant-one which has reduced toxicity and is environmentally ben...
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