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ORBITEC Has Real Vision For Its New AUSEP Rocket Engine
Sep 28, 2012 (SPX)
Orbital Technologies recently conducted several key rocket engine technology demonstrations at its large engine test facility in Baraboo, Wisconsin. Under obser...
Australian hypersonic test a success
Sep 28, 2012 (UPI)
Australian military scientists successfully completed another test flight of an experimental hypersonic vehicle, this time at the Andoya Rocket Range in Norway....
NASA Selects Space Launch System Advanced Development Proposals
Sep 24, 2012 (SPX)
NASA has selected 26 proposals from academia and industry for advanced development activities for the nation's next heavy lift rocket, the Space Launch System (...
Space formula of Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
Sep 18, 2012 (Voice of Russia)
155 years ago, on September 17, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, one of the founding fathers of rocketry and astronautics, was born in the Russian province. One of his f...
XCOR Announces FiberDyne as Lynx Mark I Wing Strake Manufacturer
Sep 17, 2012 (SPX)
XCOR Aerospace has announced that the Lynx Mark I suborbital reusable launch vehicle (RLV) wing strake assemblies will be manufactured by FiberDyne Advanced Com...
NASA's Space Launch System Celebrates a Year of Powering Forward
Sep 14, 2012 (SPX)
NASA is powering ahead toward new destinations in the solar system. This week marks one year of progress since the formation of the Space Launch System (SLS), t...
A Canopy of Confidence: Orion's Parachutes
Sep 13, 2012 (SPX)
They were perhaps some of the most visible images of the end of each Apollo mission: Giant orange and white parachutes unfurled high above the spacecraft, gentl...
India completes ton of space missions
Sep 13, 2012 (IANS)
The Indian space odyssey crossed a milestone on Sunday, as the fully-indigenous Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-C21) blasted off from the Satish Dhawan Spa...
A false case that delayed India's cryogenic project
Sep 12, 2012 (IANS)
In the early 1990s, S. Nambi Narayanan was working to develop cryogenic technology when things went for a toss and he was arrested on false espionage charges, w...
Roscosmos Space Agency Recalls Briz-M Upper Stage Batch
Sep 12, 2012 (RIA Novosti)
The Russian space agency Roscosmos will recall the entire batch of Briz-M upper stages, one of which caused the launch of a Proton-M carrier rocket to fail in A...
ATK and United Launch Alliance Test GEM-60 Motor
Sep 12, 2012 (SPX)
ATK and United Launch Alliance (ULA) conducted a successful cold-temperature ground test of a Graphite Epoxy Motor (GEM-60) solid rocket motor used to boost ULA...
Russian Companies Design Space Tour Plane
Aug 31, 2012 (RIA Novosti)
Russia's NPO Molniya design bureau and the Myasischev Experimental Factory (EMZ) are designing a space-plane for sub-orbital "space tourism" and small satellite...
Dream Chaser Team Completes Milestone
Aug 29, 2012 (SPX)
Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) is pleased to announce that the company's Dream Chaser Space System has successfully completed its first milestone as part of NA...
Space Launch System Giving Marshall, Langley Wind Tunnels a Workout
Aug 29, 2012 (SPX)
Launching rockets is no easy or inexpensive task. Developers must consider the ground support infrastructure, fuel elements and flight hardware itself; not to m...
Super-heavy carrier rocket could be created jointly with Ukraine, Kazakhstan
Aug 28, 2012 (Voice of Russia)
The space rocket corporation Energia, based in Korolyov near Moscow, has proposed a plan to create a super-heavy carrier rocket, Commonwealth, for long-distance...
XCOR Aerospace to Establish Operations and Manufacturing Base in Florida
Aug 27, 2012 (SPX)
XCOR Aerospace announced its intent to establish an East Coast U.S. operational base in Florida and as market demand dictates, establish a manufacturing and ass...
NASA Picks Revolutionary Space Tech Proposals For Development
Aug 22, 2012 (SPX)
NASA's Space Technology Program has selected five technologies that could revolutionize America's space capabilities. In March, NASA issued a call for proposal ...
NASA Selects Green Propellant Technology Demonstration Mission
Aug 17, 2012 (SPX)
NASA has selected a team led by Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corporation of Boulder, Colo., for a technology demonstration of a high performance "green" prop...
Hypersonic vehicle fails flight test: US Air Force
Aug 15, 2012 (AFP)
A flight test of an experimental unmanned vehicle designed to fly at hypersonic speeds has ended in failure, the US Air Force said Wednesday. The X-51A Waveride...
US military to test hypersonic vehicle over Pacific
Aug 14, 2012 (AFP)
The US military plans to launch a hypersonic unmanned vehicle in a test flight Tuesday over the Pacific, with the X-51A due to reach mind-boggling speeds of Mac...
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