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Ariane 6 progress toward inaugural flight: ArianeGroup, Les Mureaux, France
Jun 27, 2023 (ESA)
Ariane 6 builds on the heritage of its hugely successful predecessor, Ariane 5. But it will lift more payload at less cost and fly more often, to give Europe on...
Initial RS-25 Certification Campaign of 12 hot-fire tests complete
Jun 24, 2023 (SPX)
"With the completion of this 12-test campaign, we have cleared a major milestone in our RS-25 production restart program," said Eileen P. Drake, Aerojet Rocketd...
NASA achieves key milestone for production of future Artemis engines
Jun 24, 2023 (SPX)
"This certification test series for the redesigned engine sets the stage for a new chapter of spaceflight history for the RS-25 engines and future flights of th...
SpaceX tender offer values it at around $150bn: report
Jun 23, 2023 (AFP)
The company -- the first private company to send astronauts into orbit, among many other firsts -- is initially seeking a $750 million tender offer, the report ...
Rocket Lab to Launch Multiple Satellites as Part of Upcoming Recovery Mission
Jun 23, 2023 (SPX)
Rocket Lab is also planning to conduct a marine recovery of Electron's first stage as part of this mission. Rocket Lab's recovery team will retrieve Electron us...
Ariane 6 revealed on its launch pad in preparation for hot-firing tests
Jun 23, 2023 (SPX)
For several months, teams from ArianeGroup, CNES and ESA have been working together to conduct combined tests at the Spaceport in Kourou to verify and qualify t...
Safran and Terran Orbital sign a MoA to produce satellite electric propulsion systems in US
Jun 23, 2023 (SPX)
Safran Electronics and Defense, via Safran Spacecraft Propulsion, and Terran Orbital will undertake an in-depth analysis to determine the technical, industrial ...
New date for Ariane 5 rocket's final launch after delay
Jun 23, 2023 (AFP)
After 27 years of launches, the 117th and last mission to take off on an Ariane 5 rocket was originally scheduled for June 16 from Europe's spaceport in Kourou,...
Upgrades to KSC ground systems near completion for Artemis II
Jun 22, 2023 (SPX)
Technicians repaired the elevators on the mobile launcher, which sustained damage during Artemis I launch, and teams are evaluating ways to harden the elevators...
SETS' SPS-25 Propulsion System proves successful in space testing
Jun 22, 2023 (SPX)
The SPS-25 propulsion system is significant because it was developed in Ukraine, a country ravaged by ongoing conflict with Russia. Despite these exceptionally ...
Top Secret NRO Spy Satellite launched on ULA's Delta IV Heavy Penultimate Flight
Jun 22, 2023 (SPX)
United Launch Alliance's (ULA) second-to-last flight of its Delta IV Heavy rocket lit the Florida Space Coast sky on the NROL-68 mission to haul a classified pa...
Introducing Commercial Crew-7
Jun 22, 2023 (ESA)
In addition to Andreas and NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli who were already announced as Crew-7 pilots, Japanese astronaut Satoshi Furukawa and Roscosmos astrona...
SpaceX launches 47 more Starlink satellites into orbit
Jun 22, 2023 (UPI)
The Falcon 9 rocket with the satellites lifted off in the darkness at 3:19 a.m. EDT with the deployment of the satellites confirmed about an hour later. The roc...
New form of electromagnetic launch will reduce orbital costs by 100-fold
Jun 21, 2023 (SPX)
The partners intend to prove the physics and demonstrate the engineering for a "Quench Launcher," a non-contact form of electromagnetic launch using a combinati...
Long March 6 rocket carries experimental satellite to space
Jun 21, 2023 (XNA)
The company said in a news release that the rocket blasted off at 11:18 am at the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in Shanxi province and soon placed the Shiyan ...
Rocket Lab debuts HASTE with suborbital launch from Wallops Island
Jun 20, 2023 (SPX)
The HASTE suborbital launch vehicle is derived from the Company's Electron rocket but has a modified Kick Stage for hypersonic payload deployment, a larger payl...
Leidos' MACH-TB program successfully completes 1st test launch
Jun 19, 2023 (SPX)
"This successful test has demonstrated first hypersonic insertion of a payload from a commercial launch vehicle and the team is ready to move forward into the n...
VAST selects Impulse Space for Haven-1 Space Station Propulsion
Jun 18, 2023 (SPX)
Impulse Space's Founder and CEO, Tom Mueller, conveyed the company's enthusiasm for this groundbreaking endeavor, stating, "Impulse Space is excited to work wit...
Spanish rocket launch aborted due to last-minute glitch
Jun 17, 2023 (AFP)
The launch of the Miura 1 in the southwestern provence of Huelva was "automatically aborted" as some of the umbilicals -- which are used to provide power and fu...
Handing over European Service Module for Artemis II
Jun 16, 2023 (ESA)
The European Service Module-2 will power the Orion spacecraft on the Artemis II mission that will see NASA astronauts commander Reid Wiseman, pilot Victor Glove...
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