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Virgin Orbit completes final launch rehearsal ahead of 3rd commercial launch
Dec 27, 2021 (SPX)
"The successful completion of this final major test has us heading into the holiday season with excellent momentum and high confidence for our Above the Clouds ...
Cargo Dragon Docks to Station with Brand New Science
Dec 27, 2021 (SPX)
The Dragon launched on SpaceX's 24th contracted commercial resupply mission at 5:07 a.m. EST, Tuesday, Dec. 21 from Launch Complex 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space C...
World's most powerful telescope blasts off into space
Dec 25, 2021 (AFP)
The James Webb Space Telescope left Earth enclosed in its Ariane 5 rocket from the Kourou Space Centre in French Guiana at 1220 GMT, according to an AFP journal...
SpaceX launches Starlink, Sarah-2 missions
Dec 25, 2021 (UPI)
SpaceX on Sunday launched the Sarah-2 mission carrying the German satellites from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California at 8:11 a.m. EST. The flight had bee...
NASA sends shipment of supplies, experiments, holiday food to ISS
Dec 21, 2021 (UPI)
The shipment lifted off from Launch Pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center just after 5 a.m. EST Tuesday, right on schedule. The mission carried more than 6,500 po...
FAA approves Launch Site Operator License for Spaceport Camden
Dec 21, 2021 (SPX)
"In the 20th century Camden County was declared the 'Gateway to Space.' With this license, we have retained that title again in the 21st century," said Steve Ho...
Science fiction revisited: Ramjet propulsion
Dec 21, 2021 (SPX)
Many more or less speculative ideas about this have been put forward - one of them is the "Bussard collector" or "Ramjet propulsion". It involves capturing prot...
Webb telescope launch again pushed back
Dec 21, 2021 (AFP)
The new target date, if determined to be viable, would be an actual Christmas gift for scientists who have been waiting three decades to see the largest and mos...
Huayi-1 suborbital rocket makes debut flight
Dec 20, 2021 (XNA)
The Huayi-1 rocket blasted off at 2:30 pm, transporting the Agile Testbed experimental satellite and a biological experimental payload named Sparkle-1 to the sp...
STOKE Space Raises $65M Series A to Make Space Access Sustainable and Scalable
Dec 20, 2021 (SPX)
The Series A funding round was led by Breakthrough Energy Ventures and included new investors Spark Capital, Point72 Ventures, Toyota Ventures, Alameda Research...
Microlauncher competition: first payload winners chosen
Dec 20, 2021 (SPX)
They span a wide range of applications, from telecommunication services and monitoring of Earth's land, air and water masses all the way through to the rapid an...
SpaceX plans cargo launch with Parkinson's, MS experiments aboard
Dec 20, 2021 (UPI)
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is scheduled to lift off at 5:06 a.m. from Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center. Space Force forecasters predict only a 40% chance of fa...
Two Astronauts Receive Assignments for NASA's SpaceX Crew-6 Mission
Dec 20, 2021 (SPX)
NASA astronauts Stephen Bowen and Woody Hoburg will serve as spacecraft commander and pilot, respectively, for the mission. The agency's international partners ...
SpaceX launches Turksat-5b
Dec 19, 2021 (UPI)
Elon Musk's rocket firm launched the Turksat 5B satellite aboard a Falcon 9 rocket from Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station during a two-hour windo...
Rocket Lab scrubs first U.S. Electron launch over high winds
Dec 18, 2021 (UPI)
The launch at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia was scrubbed with less than a dozen minutes left in the count down. "All stations, unfortunately, we ar...
Launch of GeeSAT commercial satellites fails
Dec 17, 2021 (XNA)
Abnormal performance was detected during the flight of the rocket, which lifted off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China at 10 a.m. (Beij...
NASA 'Fires Up' Artemis RS-25 Rocket Engines with New Components
Dec 17, 2021 (SPX)
The first hot fire of the new series was conducted for a full-duration 500 seconds on the Fred Haise Test Stand (formerly A-1 Test Stand) at Stennis Space Cente...
NASA Completes Upper Part of Artemis II Core Stage
Dec 17, 2021 (SPX)
To construct this part of the core stage, the team first stacked three major parts of the stage-the forward skirt, the liquid oxygen tank, and the intertank. Th...
ESA contract to advance Vega-C competitiveness
Dec 17, 2021 (ESA)
The ESA-Avio contract is worth euro 51 million over two and a half years. The signature event in Paris on 15 December was attended by Daniel Neuenschwander, ESA...
Webb placed on top of Ariane 5
Dec 17, 2021 (ESA)
After its arrival in the final assembly building, Webb was lifted slowly about 40 m high and then carefully manoeuvred on top of Ariane 5, after which technicia...
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