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Firefly Aerospace Successfully Launches Eight CubeSat Satellites
Jul 04, 2024 (SPX)
The CubeSats were launched under NASA's Launch Services Program Venture, providing satellite developers at U.S. universities and nonprofits with low-cost access...
Orbit Fab Delivers First Grip In-space Refueling Nozzle Following Successful Testing
Jul 03, 2024 (SPX)
After completing rigorous GRIP testing and in-space refueling simulations, Orbit Fab has successfully retired major technical risks ahead of key government and ...
Starliner undergoing thruster testing before indefinite return flight
Jul 03, 2024 (UPI)
Test pilots Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams are safely aboard the ISS and are not stranded in space, NASA commercial crew program manager Steve Stich said durin...
SpaceX completes Starlink launch, brings Direct to Cell satellite total to 103
Jul 03, 2024 (UPI)
The liftoff at pad 40 took place in at 4:55 a.m. EDT from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida after a 2-hour delay. The Falcon 9 rocket carried with i...
Space Pioneer Issues Apology After Engine Test Explosion
Jul 03, 2024 (SPX)
Tianlong-3, a two-stage kerosene-liquid oxygen rocket comparable to SpaceX's Falcon 9, experienced the failure during a test of its nine engines intended to pow...
Europe's Ariane 6 rocket finally ready for liftoff
Jul 02, 2024 (AFP)
After four years of delays, the European Space Agency's (ESA) most powerful rocket yet is finally due to blast off from Europe's spaceport in Kourou, French Gui...
Firefly Aerospace aims to launch eight CubeSat satellites after scrub
Jul 02, 2024 (UPI)
The satellites are being put into space under NASA's Launch Services Program Venture. Officials blamed a "last minute" ground systems issues led to the mission'...
PLD Space invests 10 million euros in MIURA 5 launch complex in French Guiana
Jul 02, 2024 (SPX)
PLD Space has always been committed to the CNES/CSG as the main site for MIURA 5 recurrent launches because is the most competitive launch base in Europe. Kouro...
China's first commercial spacecraft launch site ready
Jul 02, 2024 (SPX)
According to the Hainan International Commercial Aerospace Launch Co Ltd (HICAL), which built and operates the launch site, the exercises performed using the la...
Ahead of Ariane 6 launch, what are the other big rockets?
Jul 02, 2024 (AFP)
Here are some of the other big rockets competing for the lucrative job of hauling satellites and other missions into space. - Ariane 6 - The first flight of the...
SSC and Firefly Aerospace plan joint satellite launches from Esrange
Jul 01, 2024 (SPX)
"We're pleased to announce this historic collaboration that will have a huge impact on the global launch market, not least in Europe and the U.S.," said Charlot...
Chinese rocket takes off during test, causing local fire
Jul 01, 2024 (SPX)
Beijing Tianbing Technology Co, also known as Space Pioneer, reported that the first stage of its Tianlong-3 rocket detached from the launch pad during a struct...
The science behind splashdown
Jul 01, 2024 (SPX)
Grissom crewed the Liberty Bell 7 mission, a ballistic test flight that launched him through the atmosphere from a rocket. During the test, he sat inside a smal...
Japan succesfully launches H3 next-gen rocket with new observation satellite
Jul 01, 2024 (UPI)
"Today, the payload, Daichi-4, was deployed into its operational environment -- space -- and has commenced its mission," Hiroshi Yamakawa, JAXA's president, sai...
Space Systems Accelerated by Northrop Grumman
Jul 01, 2024 (SPX)
The rapid pace required to address evolving threats necessitates getting solutions into orbit faster than ever. What once took years now must be achieved in mon...
Europe satellite operator drops Ariane 6 rocket for SpaceX: report
Jun 28, 2024 (AFP)
The latest blow to European space efforts comes after four years of delays to the Ariane 6, which is scheduled to finally blast off for the first time on July 9...
NASA insists Boeing Starliner crew 'not stranded' on ISS
Jun 28, 2024 (AFP)
In an unusually defensive press call, officials attempted to put a positive spin on where things currently stood after weeks of negative headlines due to the sp...
20 Years after 'Hyper-X', UVA team makes NASA hypersonic breakthrough
Jun 27, 2024 (SPX)
In 2004, NASA's final X-43A unmanned prototype tests were a milestone in the latest era of jet development - the leap from ramjets to faster, more efficient scr...
N. Korean test of likely hypersonic missile fails: Seoul military official
Jun 26, 2024 (AFP)
The early morning launch came just hours after Pyongyang sent another flurry of trash-bearing balloons southward, this time forcing a three-hour halt to flights...
China performs successful test towards reusable rocket goal
Jun 25, 2024 (SPX)
The state-owned conglomerate announced that one of its subsidiaries, the Shanghai Academy of Spaceflight Technology, used an experimental rocket to perform a "h...
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