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Air Force's experimental scramjet aircraft hits Mach 5.1 -- 3,880 mph
May 03, 2013 (UPI)
The final flight of the X-51A Waverider test program saw the scramjet aircraft reach Mach 5.1 over the Pacific Ocean, the U.S. Air Force said Friday. The unmann...
Hot-fire Tests Steering the Future of NASA's Space Launch System Engines
May 01, 2013 (SPX)
Engineers developing NASA's next-generation rocket closed one chapter of testing with the completion of a J-2X engine test series on the A-2 test stand at the a...
Apollo-Era Test Stand Being Prepared for SLS Core Stage Testing
May 01, 2013 (SPX)
Before NASA's new Space Launch System (SLS) flies to space on its inaugural mission in 2017, it will fly in place at the agency's Stennis Space Center in Missis...
Virgin Galactic tourist spaceship breaks sound barrier
Apr 29, 2013 (AFP)
Virgin Galactic's passenger spaceplane, which is designed to take tourists to the edge of space, flew its first rocket-powered test flight Monday, breaking the ...
SpaceShipTwo Breaks Sound Barrier In First Rocket-Powered Flight
Apr 29, 2013 (SPX)
Virgin Galactic has completed the first rocket-powered flight of its space vehicle, SpaceShipTwo (SS2). The test, conducted by teams from Scaled Composites (Sca...
Russia Plans to Launch First Angara Rocket in 2014
Apr 26, 2013 (RIA Novosti)
The Russian military expects the first launch of a new Angara carrier rocket to take place in 2014 after the construction of a new launch complex at the Plesets...
Orbital Sciences launches Antares rocket
Apr 21, 2013 (AFP)
US manufacturer Orbital Sciences launched its first Antares rocket Sunday, paving the way for a demonstration flight to the International Space Station within m...
Orbital Sciences delays launch of Antares rocket
Apr 20, 2013 (AFP)
Orbital Sciences, one of two private US firms chosen by NASA to shuttle cargo to the International Space Station, delayed a bid Saturday to launch a first test ...
The Sounds of Progress: NASA's Space Launch System Engineers Begin Acoustic Testing
Apr 18, 2013 (SPX)
Test conductors at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., are making progress on the agency's new rocket by listening closely to the roar of f...
Antares Launch Reschedule To Friday
Apr 18, 2013 (SPX)
Orbital Sciences Corporation has confirmed the next probable attempt to test launch its Antares rocket from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility on Wallops Island, Va...
ATK supplying hardware, composites for Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle
Apr 18, 2013 (UPI)
Hardware and large composite structures for Phase 1 of the U.S. Air Force's Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle program are to be supplied by ATK. Included in the...
Space Shuttle substitute makes headway
Apr 08, 2013 (UPI)
Former NASA astronaut Lee Archambault will work with aviation and aerospace manufacturer Sierra Nevada Corp. to pursue the company's goal of producing a feasibl...
NASA Commercial Crew Partner Boeing Completes Launch Vehicle Adapter Review
Apr 06, 2013 (SPX)
The Boeing Company of Houston, a NASA Commercial Crew Program (CCP) partner, has successfully completed a preliminary design review (PDR) of the component that ...
NASA Turns Up the Heat on Construction of the Space Launch System
Apr 01, 2013 (SPX)
Welding engineers at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., have had an extremely busy winter assembling adapters that will connect the Orion ...
ATK Successfully Ground Tests New CASTOR 30XL Upper Stage Solid Rocket Motor
Apr 01, 2013 (SPX)
ATK has tested its newly developed CASTOR 30XL upper stage solid rocket motor at the U.S. Air Force's Arnold Engineering Development Complex (AEDC) in Tennessee...
Swiss firm plans robotic mini-shuttle
Apr 01, 2013 (UPI)
A Swiss firm says it intends to construct a robotic rocket plane that will launch satellites into orbit off the back of a modified jetliner. Swiss Space Systems...
XCOR Driving Rocket Science Forward With Lynx Suborbital Vehicle
Mar 28, 2013 (SPX)
XCOR Aerospace has announced a first in aviation and space history, the firing of a full piston pump-powered rocket engine. This breakthrough is the foundation ...
Moog Conducts More Than 7,900 Hot Fire Tests on 400 Engines in 2012
Mar 21, 2013 (SPX)
In the past year, Moog ISP, part of Moog Inc.'s Space and Defense Group, successfully conducted more than 7,900 hot fire tests on 400 engines for at least 14 di...
SpaceX's Merlin 1D Engine Achieves Flight Qualification
Mar 20, 2013 (SPX)
Space Exploration Technologies' (SpaceX) Merlin 1D engine has achieved flight qualification, a major milestone for the next generation Merlin engine. Through a ...
Here We Go Again, Another Air-Launch Idea
Mar 20, 2013 (SPX)
Over the past two decades there have been a number of proposals suggesting that air launching a satellite is an effective and low-cost approach to space operati...
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