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Russia Delays New Soyuz Launch
Mar 19, 2013 (RIA Novosti)
The first launch of Russia's new Soyuz-2.1V lightweight carrier rocket, scheduled for early 2013, is now likely to be delayed until the second half of 2013, its...
Swiss firm aims for low-cost satellite service
Mar 14, 2013 (AFP)
A new Swiss-based company said Thursday it would offer low-cost satellite launches which it claims could be a quarter of current market rates. Swiss Space Syste...
Breakthrough Propulsion Physics
Mar 12, 2013 (SPX)
It is commonly known that the lack of new propulsion technologies has held space exploration opportunities to a minimum. A particular frustration is the lack of...
2014 maiden launch for Long March-7 rocket
Mar 06, 2013 (XNA)
China's indigenous carrier rocket Long March-7 will hopefully make its first launch in 2014, a senior official of the rocket's designing institute said on Frida...
China's first solid-fuel rocket to debut before 2016
Mar 04, 2013 (XNA)
China's first solid-fuel rocket Long March-11 is expected to make its first launch before 2016, a senior official of the rocket's designing institute said on Sa...
J-2X Engine 'Goes the Distance' at Stennis
Mar 04, 2013 (SPX)
J-2X rocket engine testing continues at NASA's Stennis Space Center in Mississippi with the second in a series of tests conducted on Feb. 27. The 550-second, fu...
NASA Partner Orbital Tests Rocket, Newest US Launch Pad
Feb 26, 2013 (SPX)
NASA commercial partner Orbital Sciences of Dulles, Va., successfully conducted an engine test of its Antares rocket Friday, February 22, at the nation's newest...
NASA Seeks Big Ideas for Small In-Space Propulsion Systems
Feb 22, 2013 (SPX)
NASA's Space Technology Program is calling for proposals to develop miniaturized electrospray propulsion technologies that could revolutionize small satellite p...
NASA Awards Final Space Launch System Advanced Booster Contract
Feb 21, 2013 (SPX)
NASA has selected Aerojet of Sacramento, Calif., for a $23.3 million contract to develop engineering demonstrations and risk reduction concepts for future advan...
Antares Engine Test Aborted; New Date TBD
Feb 19, 2013 (SPX)
The planned first stage propulsion system "hot fire" test of Orbital's new Antares medium-class rocket was halted in the final seconds of the countdown by the r...
Magnetic shielding of ion beam thruster walls
Feb 15, 2013 (SPX)
Electric rocket engines known as Hall thrusters, which use a super high-velocity stream of ions to propel a spacecraft in space, have been used successfully onb...
NASA Set for New Round Of J-2X Testing at Stennis Space Center
Feb 14, 2013 (SPX)
NASA's progress toward a return to deep space missions continues with a new round of upcoming tests on the next-generation J-2X rocket engine, which will help p...
NASA and ATK Complete Avionics and Controls Testing for SLS Booster
Feb 07, 2013 (SPX)
NASA and ATK (ATK) completed the second in a series of development tests for NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) booster program on January 30 at ATK's Promontory,...
Flight Control Test-2 for SLS at ATK
Feb 05, 2013 (SPX)
An ATK technician performs one last check on the avionics test article for solid rocket boosters in preparation for the second Flight Control Test of NASA's Spa...
Astrium wins ESA contracts to design Ariane 6 and continue development of Ariane 5 ME
Feb 04, 2013 (ESA)
The European Space Agency (ESA) has awarded Astrium, Europe's leading space technology company, euro 108 million worth of prime contractor agreements covering t...
Teledyne unit wins $60 million contract to build NASA launch adapter
Feb 04, 2013 (UPI)
Teledyne Brown Engineering Inc., an Alabama unit of the international aerospace major Teledyne, will design and build a launch vehicle stage adapter for NASA's ...
NASA Awards Space Launch System Advanced Development Grants
Jan 30, 2013 (SPX)
NASA has awarded grants to nine universities for advanced development activities for the nation's next heavy-lift rocket, the Space Launch System (SLS). The age...
Dextre Refuels Mock Satellite and Aces a Major Test for Space Robotics
Jan 29, 2013 (SPX)
Dextre, the Canadian Space Agency's robotic "handyman" on board the International Space Station (ISS), made space history last night by successfully refueling a...
NASA Engineers Resurrect And Test Mighty F-1 Engine Gas Generator
Jan 29, 2013 (SPX)
Imagine a young engineer examining an artifact from the Apollo era that helped send people on humankind's first venture to another world. The engineer has seen ...
Scientists create tractor beam
Jan 26, 2013 (UPI)
Scientists at Scotland's St. Andrews University have invented a miniature working version of a Star Trek-style "tractor beam." The device the researchers create...
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