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BWXT Delivers Fuel to NASA to Support Nuclear Thermal Propulsion
Dec 15, 2021 (SPX)
Nuclear Thermal Propulsion (NTP) is one of the technologies that is capable of propelling a spacecraft to Mars and back. Innovative new nuclear fuels and reacto...
NASA starts RS-25 engine testing for future Artemis missions
Dec 13, 2021 (UPI)
The initial single-engine hot fire test Wednesday, at Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis in Mississippi, will run for 500 seconds starting at 2 p.m. CST. "...
Orion splashes down in Pacific Ocean after trip around the moon
Dec 11, 2021 (UPI)
The 25 1/2-day Artemis I mission landed in the Pacific Ocean off Mexico's Baja California at 12:40 p.m., NASA reported. "Splashdown! From Tranquility Base to Ta...
Spire Global selects Virgin Orbit for late-load addition to next flight
Dec 10, 2021 (SPX)
Going from idea to orbit in less than one year, ADLER-1 is developed by Spire in partnership with the Austrian Space Forum (OeWF) and Findus Venture GmbH and ha...
New rocket test facility under construction in Scotland
Dec 10, 2021 (SPX)
Ian Annett, Deputy CEO of the UK Space Agency, said: The construction of this new facility marks another major milestone in our ambitions to become a modern, ag...
Orbex begins construction of new rocket launchpad in the UK
Dec 10, 2021 (SPX)
Orbex has commissioned Motive Offshore Group, a leading Scottish company specialising in the design and manufacture of marine and lifting equipment, to fabricat...
Rocket Lab launches 109th satellite to orbit
Dec 09, 2021 (SPX)
The 'A Data With Destiny' mission, arranged for BlackSky through global launch services provider Spaceflight Inc., was Electron's 23rd liftoff from Rocket Lab L...
Russia strikes deal with NASA for first cosmonaut on SpaceX flight
Dec 09, 2021 (UPI)
Dmitry Rogozin, director general of Russia's Roscosmos agency, said his program has pledged a seat of a Russian Soyuz capsule to an American astronaut in return...
AFRL celebrates successful rocket launch at STEM Academy
Dec 09, 2021 (SPX)
On a beautiful sunny fall day, 184 New Mexico middle school students from Christ Lutheran, Cleveland Middle, Holy Ghost Catholic, Menaul, Mesa View Elementary, ...
Britain set to launch its first space mission
Dec 06, 2021 (UPI)
A launch window for Virgin Orbit's LauncherOne is scheduled to open Dec. 14, NASA's spaceflight editor Chris Bergin tweeted Tuesday. Virgin Orbit's LauncherOne ...
European space firm to build small, reusable launcher
Dec 06, 2021 (AFP)
The launch vehicle should be operational by 2026, Bruno Le Maire said in a visit to ArianeGroup's large rocket testing facility in Vernon, northwest France. Le ...
RUAG Space: First fully U.S.-made fairing to fly into space
Dec 06, 2021 (SPX)
"For the very first time, a fully U.S.-made fairing from us will fly into space." It is also the first time a payload fairing made in the Out-of-Autoclave produ...
NASA awards Artemis contract for future SLS boosters
Dec 03, 2021 (SPX)
This contract, with a value of $3.19 billion, definitizes a letter contract awarded in June 2020 that authorized Northrop Grumman to order long-lead items and b...
Galileo launch postponed
Dec 02, 2021 (ESA)
Pending the resolution of this anomaly the earliest launch date for Galileo satellites 27-28 is now 4 December 2021 at 01:23 CET (21:23 local Kourou time on 3 D...
Rocket Lab reveals Neutron launch vehicle's advanced architecture
Dec 02, 2021 (SPX)
"Neutron is not a conventional rocket. It's a new breed of launch vehicle with reliability, reusability and cost reduction is hard baked into the advanced desig...
Rocket Lab readies Electron for lift-off in fastest launch turnaround yet
Dec 02, 2021 (SPX)
The "A Data With Destiny" mission for BlackSky managed through global launch services provider Spaceflight Inc., will be Rocket Lab's 23rd Electron launch and s...
SpaceX successfully launches latest Starlink fleet from Florida
Dec 02, 2021 (UPI)
The Falcon 9 rocket successfully lifted off from Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station at about 6:12 p.m. EST. SpaceX was also able to successfully l...
Orbex to use Calor BioLPG for Prime launch
Dec 02, 2021 (SPX)
Under the terms of the new deal, Calor will supply Orbex with its BioLPG solution, a clean-burning propane produced from renewable feedstocks such as plant and ...
Test tanks fuelled for ESA's Themis reusable first stage
Dec 02, 2021 (ESA)
Through the Themis programme, ESA aims to assess the economic value of reusability for Europe while investing in new technologies for potential use in ESA's fut...
SpaceX Starlink launch from Florida delayed to Thursday
Dec 01, 2021 (UPI)
SpaceX gave no immediate reason for the postponement. With the rescheduling, a Falcon 9 rocket is scheduled to carry the satellites into orbit at 6:28 p.m. EST ...
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