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China develops new rocket engine
Jun 18, 2012 (XNA)
China announced Thursday that it has developed a new engine for its new generation of carrier rockets, making it the second in the world to harness such engine ...
Secret U.S. space plane prepares to land
Jun 15, 2012 (UPI)
A U.S. Air Force space plane in orbit for more than a year will come back to Earth this weekend, say officials who remained mum on the mission's purpose. The ro...
NASA Surpasses Test Facility Record With Long-Duration J-2X Powerpack Test
Jun 11, 2012 (SPX)
NASA's Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Miss., broke its own record on June 8, when it conducted a test on the new J-2X powerpack. The test lasted for 1...
NASA Begins Development of Space Launch System Flight Software
Jun 07, 2012 (SPX)
NASA engineers working on the new Space Launch System (SLS) can now begin developing the advanced, heavy-lift launch vehicle's flight software using newly deliv...
Dream Chaser Flight Vehicle Scales Rocky Mountain Summits
Jun 05, 2012 (SPX)
Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) Space Systems' Dream Chaser design passed one of its most complex tests to date with a successful captive-carry test conducted n...
Boeing Delivers First Space Launch System Hardware to NASA
Jun 05, 2012 (SPX)
Boeing has delivered NASA three flight computer software test beds, the first critical element for flight software development in support of NASA's Space Launch...
Sierra Nevada Announces the Completion of Four Dream Chaser Milestones FOR NASA
Jun 01, 2012 (SPX)
Sierra Nevada Corporation's (SNC) Space Systems announces that the Dream Chaser Space System has successfully completed four additional NASA Commercial Crew Dev...
Liquid Oxygen Piston Pump Ready for Reusable Space Flight
May 29, 2012 (SPX)
XCOR has achieved a key technical milestone with its flight weight rocket piston pump hardware. XCOR engineers have successfully and repeatedly pumped liquid ox...
J-2X Engine Continues to Set Standards
May 29, 2012 (SPX)
Testing of the next-generation J-2X rocket engine continues to set standards. Last fall, the engine attained 100 percent power in just its fourth test and becam...
Internet entrepreneur hits paydirt in space, autos
May 22, 2012 (AFP)
It was a landmark day for Elon Musk. The onetime Internet entrepreneur's firm SpaceX became the first commercial outfit to launch its own spacecraft toward the ...
NASA Team to Test New Vehicle-Descent Technologies
May 22, 2012 (SPX)
NASA technologists will get a chance next summer to relive the good old days when Agency engineers would affix space-age gizmos to rockets just to see if the co...
Pictures show N. Korea rocket launch upgrade
May 22, 2012 (AFP)
North Korea has undertaken a major upgrade of a launch pad that could pave the way for longer-range missiles, a research group said Tuesday, amid mounting conce...
Friction Stir Welding Brings Together Reliability and Affordability For Space Launch System
May 21, 2012 (SPX)
NASA's next heavy-lift launch vehicle, the Space Launch System, is moving further in development faster thanks to proven advanced technologies like friction sti...
Robotic Refueling Mission Results To Be Presented At NASA Satellite-Servicing Workshop
May 20, 2012 (SPX)
NASA and the Canadian Space Agency will present results to date from the satellite-servicing Robotic Refueling Mission (RRM) during the Second International Wor...
SpaceX scrubs launch to ISS after engine problem
May 19, 2012 (AFP)
Engineers aborted the launch of a privately built spacecraft on a landmark mission to the International Space Station at the last second Saturday due to a rocke...
XCOR Announces Lynx Suborbital Flight Winner
May 19, 2012 (SPX)
XCOR Aerospace has announced the grand prize winner of a trip aboard the Lynx Mark I suborbital launch vehicle. XCOR Chief Operating Officer Andrew Nelson made ...
Ball Aerospace Submits Solar Electric Propulsion Concept to NASA
May 17, 2012 (SPX)
Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corp. has submitted its mission concept study to NASA for demonstrating solar electric propulsion (SEP) technologies in space. B...
IRVE-3 Flight Hardware Test
May 17, 2012 (SPX)
A NASA flight test designed to demonstrate the feasibility of inflatable spacecraft technology is coming down to the wire. The Inflatable Reentry Vehicle Experi...
Marshall Completes Wind Tunnel Testing For Dream Chaser Space System
May 16, 2012 (SPX)
NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., successfully completed wind tunnel testing for Sierra Nevada Corp. (SNC) Space Systems of Louisville, C...
NASA Continues J-2X Powerpack Testing
May 14, 2012 (SPX)
NASA conducted a long duration test of the J-2X powerpack, 340 seconds total, at the Stennis Space Center in southern Mississippi on May 10, marking another ste...
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