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NASA, SpaceX launch climate science research to ISS
Jul 15, 2022 (SPX)
The spacecraft launched on a Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Pad 39A at Kennedy for the company's 25th commercial resupply services mission for NASA. It is schedule...
Skyrora opens UK's largest rocket engine manufacturing facility
Jul 14, 2022 (SPX)
After recently opening its engine test facility in Midlothian, this new facility in Cumbernauld allows the company to concentrate its launch development practic...
Vega-C completes inaugural flight
Jul 14, 2022 (ESA)
Total payload mass at liftoff was approximately 474 kg: 296 kg for LARES-2, with the remainder being the six CubeSats, payload adapters and carrying structures....
Ariane 6 central core transferred to mobile gantry
Jul 13, 2022 (ESA)
The combined tests include filling tanks, and draining them in case of launch abort, count-down automated sequence, and cryogenic arms disconnection and retract...
First encounter between the Ariane 6 central core and launch pad for combined tests
Jul 13, 2022 (ESA)
"The first encounter between Ariane 6 and its launch pad is a particularly important and symbolic step, after years of parallel development at the factories in ...
Maiden Flight of Vega-C: Top of new European rocket from Beyond Gravity
Jul 13, 2022 (SPX)
Tomorrow, Wednesday, 13 July, the new medium-lift European Vega-C rocket is scheduled to lift-off from the European spaceport in Kourou for its inaugural flight...
To Sicily and beyond: ESA, partners debate future of space transportation
Jul 12, 2022 (ESA)
These were just a few of the questions discussed during an ESA-hosted roundtable conference held on 27-28 June in Palermo, Sicily. The event, called "Shared Vis...
Hypersonics: Developing and defending against missiles far faster than sound
Jul 11, 2022 (SPX)
That was the message when Wes Kremer, president of Raytheon Missiles and Defense, a Raytheon Technologies business, spoke to investors about how teams are worki...
Rocket Lab Introduces Responsive Space Program
Jul 07, 2022 (SPX)
"Satellites are vulnerable to natural degradation, accidents, technical failure, and deliberate actions. Unexpectedly losing the vital services and capabilities...
Australia's space future blasts off from Nhulunbuy
Jul 07, 2022 (SPX)
The launch site's developer, Equatorial Launch Australia, wants to make Nhulunbuy a premier global launch site. Despite unexpected rain and wind forcing holds i...
Commercial space launch site begins construction
Jul 07, 2022 (XNA)
The Hainan Commercial Space Launch Site program is a joint venture of the Hainan government and three State-owned space conglomerates-China Aerospace Science an...
Musk says doing 'best' to boost birth rates
Jul 07, 2022 (AFP)
"Doing my best to help the underpopulation crisis," tweeted the billionaire tech entrepreneur, who has fathered 10 children. "A collapsing birth rate is the big...
Elon Musk had twins with company exec last year: report
Jul 07, 2022 (AFP)
The babies' mother, 36-year-old Canadian Shivon Zilis, is an executive at Neuralink, Musk's brain-implant maker, and has worked at multiple of his other compani...
Virgin Orbit launches 'Straight Up' mission for US Space Force
Jul 03, 2022 (SPX)
Virgin Orbit's fully mobile LauncherOne system conducted its first ever evening flight from a bare concrete pad and a runway at the Mojave Air and Space Port in...
Virgin Orbit mission success brings UK launch another step closer
Jul 02, 2022 (SPX)
With this mission complete, Virgin Orbit is on track for launch from Spaceport Cornwall later this year. The UK Space Agency and Cornwall Council are supporting...
NASA, SpaceX target new launch date for commercial cargo mission
Jul 01, 2022 (SPX)
The new target launch date supports ongoing Dragon spacecraft inspections as well as repair and replacement of any components that could have degraded by exposu...
Relativity and Oneweb sign multi-launch agreement for Terran R
Jul 01, 2022 (SPX)
Terran R will launch OneWeb missions from Launch Complex 16, Relativity's site at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, where the first entirely 3D printed rocket...
Bacteria for blastoff: Using microbes to make supercharged new rocket fuel
Jul 01, 2022 (SPX)
Well aware of the advantages biology has to offer, a group of biofuel experts led by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) took inspiration from ...
SES's C-band satellite launched onboard SpaceX Falcon 9
Jun 30, 2022 (SPX)
The first of SES's C-band satellites dedicated to freeing up the lower 300 MHz of C-band spectrum is built by Thales Alenia Space, and will operate in the 135 d...
Successful high-speed flight experiments with new sounding rocket configuration
Jun 30, 2022 (SPX)
In the early morning of 26 June 2022, the three-stage rocket lifted off from the Andoya Space launch site in northern Norway. The upper stage reached a flight s...
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