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Aerojet's AJ26 Engine Completes Successful Hot Fire in Support of Antares Rocket
Jan 22, 2013 (SPX)
Aerojet has announced that its AJ26 engine successfully completed a hot fire test this evening at NASA's Stennis Space Center. Orbital Sciences Corporation (ORB...
Competition for hypersonic vehicles resumes
Jan 21, 2013 (Voice of Russia)
The Russian Defence Ministry will start testing advanced hypersonic missiles in the coming summer. At present, Russia is conducting research in several areas of...
NASA's Robotic Refueling Demo Set to Jumpstart Expanded Capabilities in Space
Jan 16, 2013 (SPX)
In mid-January, NASA will take the next step in advancing robotic satellite-servicing technologies as it tests the Robotic Refueling Mission, or RRM aboard the ...
NASA Engineers Resurrect And Test Mighty F-1 Engine Gas Generator
Jan 16, 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 ...
SpaceShipTwo soars to 71,000 feet above Earth during test
Jan 10, 2013 (UPI)
Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo soared above Earth for a test flight Friday in the California desert, the corporation said. About 50 minutes after it was attache...
NASA Researchers Studying Advanced Nuclear Rocket Technologies
Jan 10, 2013 (SPX)
Advanced propulsion researchers at NASA are a step closer to solving the challenge of safely sending human explorers to Mars and other solar system destinations...
Russia develops new rocket fuel
Jan 07, 2013 (Voice of Russia)
Specialists from Russian scientific-production association Energomash have developed a state-of-the-art high-efficient fuel, news reports said on Thursday. Acco...
Three key ISRO centres get new chiefs
Jan 04, 2013 (IANS)
The state-run Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has appointed three new directors for its various operational centres at Thiruvananthapuram in Kerala, M...
Russia Designs New Spaceship
Dec 28, 2012 (RIA Novosti)
Russian space rocket corporation Energia has completed the technical design of a new manned spacecraft whose flight tests are due to begin in 2017, Energia Pres...
SKorea retrieves NKorean rocket engine debris
Dec 28, 2012 (AFP)
South Korea has recovered what it believes to be debris from the engine of the long-range rocket launched by North Korea this month, the defence ministry said F...
Russia to Launch New Light Class Carrier Rocket in 2013
Dec 28, 2012 (RIA Novosti)
The first launch of a new Russian light class carrier rocket has been scheduled for the beginning of 2013, Russia's Aerospace Defense Forces Commander Maj. Gen....
Russia upgrading booster rocket for NASA manned missions
Dec 28, 2012 (XNA)
Russia was modernizing a booster which U.S. space agency NASA would use for manned flights, a Russian rocket engine manufacturer said Wednesday. "We are adjusti...
China forms key lab for cryogenic propellant
Dec 28, 2012 (XNA)
China has established its first key national laboratory for space cryogenic propellant research, which will provide technological support for the country's futu...
Boeing Completes Preliminary Design Review for Space Launch System Core Stage
Dec 26, 2012 (SPX)
Boeing and NASA on Dec. 20 completed the Preliminary Design Review (PDR) for the Space Launch System (SLS) core stage and avionics, validating the design of the...
US Firm Launches Reusable Space Rocket
Dec 26, 2012 (RIA Novosti)
The private US space engineering firm SpaceX released a video over the weekend showing its Grasshopper rocket making a short but important journey that could ta...
SSL And Sea Launch Announce Successful Completion Of Investigation
Dec 21, 2012 (SPX)
Space Systems/Loral (SSL) and Sea Launch AG have jointly reported that the Independent Oversight Board (IOB) formed to investigate the solar array deployment an...
Landmark Year in Private Space Flight Development
Dec 21, 2012 (VOA)
With NASA's retired shuttles mothballed in museums, 2012 saw a new kind of spacecraft blaze its own path toward the International Space Station. In May, the Dra...
Beating Heart of J-2X Engine Finishes Year of Testing
Dec 19, 2012 (SPX)
NASA on Thursday took another step toward human exploration of new destinations in the solar system. At the agency's Stennis Space Center in Mississippi, engine...
Rocketdyne Reaches Milestone for J-2X powerpack
Dec 19, 2012 (SPX)
Pratt and Whitney Rocketdyne successfully completed the last hot-fire test on the J-2X powerpack - an important step toward development of America's next rocket...
Fast20XX research project - ideas for travelling at hypersonic speed
Dec 13, 2012 (SPX)
The vision is enticing - board in Europe, sit back, and disembark 90 minutes later on the other side of the world, in Australia. But before the SpaceLiner, whic...
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