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'Many will follow': SpaceX sends all-civilian crew into orbit
Sep 16, 2021 (AFP)
A huge fireball illuminated the sky as the rocket's nine engines began to pull away from Earth at 8:02 pm (0002 GMT Thursday). Around 12 minutes later, the Drag...
SpaceX Inspiration4 lifts off on first all-civilian orbital mission
Sep 15, 2021 (UPI)
The Falcon 9 rocket carried the Crew Dragon capsule into a mostly clear night sky as planned at 8:02 p.m. EDT from Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center. "...
SpaceX sends all-civilian crew into orbit
Sep 15, 2021 (AFP)
A huge fireball illuminated the sky as the rocket's nine engines began to pull away from Earth at 8:02 pm (0002 GMT Thursday). Around 12 minutes later, the Drag...
Sky watchers in Alaska treated to SpaceX satellites and glowing aurora
Sep 15, 2021 (UPI)
Space.com posted a video Thursday of the striking display, which Alaska aurora tour guide Ronn Murray saw during an aurora tour this month. "We saw this while t...
SpaceX's Inspiration4 civilian crew hopes mission will inspire world
Sep 14, 2021 (UPI)
Isaacman, also a pilot and the mission commander, told UPI when he began assembling his civilian crew in February that he has a long history of tying flights an...
A billionaire, a cancer survivor... Who will be on the next SpaceX mission?
Sep 13, 2021 (AFP)
The four passengers are supposed to embody the opening-up of space to everyone, giving the mission its name: Inspiration4. A billionaire, Jared Isaacman, is beh...
DLR agrees cooperation with Spanish start-up Pangea Aerospace
Sep 13, 2021 (SPX)
"By testing a new space propulsion system on behalf of the Spanish start-up Pangea Aerospace, DLR is using the expertise at its Lampoldshausen site to assist an...
NASA awards launch services contract for GOES-U Mission
Sep 13, 2021 (SPX)
The total cost for NASA to launch GOES-U is approximately $152.5 million, which includes the launch service and other mission-related costs. The GOES-U mission ...
SpaceX to launch private, all-civilian crew into Earth orbit
Sep 13, 2021 (AFP)
The "Inspiration4" mission caps a summer that saw billionaires Richard Branson and Jeff Bezos cross the final frontier, on Virgin Galactic and Blue Origin space...
Blue Origin rocket suffers booster failure, prompting emergency abort system
Sep 12, 2021 (UPI)
The unmanned mission was carrying 36 payloads from academia, research institutions, and students across the globe and was expected to reach the edge of space an...
SpaceX launches 34 more Starlink satellites, AST SpaceMobile satellite
Sep 10, 2021 (UPI)
The satellites were launched by a two-stage Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center in Florida after targeting a 9:20 p.m. liftoff due t...
Winds delay South Australian launch attempt
Sep 08, 2021 (SPX)
The Australian Government has given regulatory approval for a commercial rocket launch to take place from a newly licensed launch facility in South Australia. T...
ESA Council agrees resolution on Ariane 6 and Vega-C exploitation and future space transportation
Sep 07, 2021 (ESA)
The Resolution agreed upon by ESA Member States mid-August sets the conditions for the first three years of stabilised exploitation of Europe's new launch vehic...
Space industry grapples with COVID-19-related oxygen fuel shortage
Sep 07, 2021 (UPI)
In fact, NASA has pushed back the launch of its Landsat 9 climate and land use satellite from California one week to Sept. 23 because of delivery problems for r...
Firefly Aerospace rocket explodes after California liftoff
Sep 03, 2021 (SPX)
The Alpha rocket was "terminated" over the Pacific Ocean shortly after its 6:59 p.m. liftoff from Vandenberg Space Force Base, according to a base statement. Fi...
DLR Lampoldshausen prepares P5 test stand for the technologies of the future
Sep 03, 2021 (SPX)
The 65-metre-high building of ESA's P5 test stand towers over the DLR site. Inside, it has housed unique high-tech equipment since it was commissioned in 1990. ...
Firefly Aerospace rocket explodes minutes after first launch
Sep 03, 2021 (UPI)
Videos and photos posted online showed an orange fireball about two minutes after liftoff of the Firefly Alpha rocket at 9:59 p.m. EDT. White smoke trailed as a...
Firefly Aerospace rocket Alpha explodes after California liftoff
Sep 03, 2021 (SPX)
The Alpha rocket was "terminated" over the Pacific Ocean shortly after its 6:59 p.m. liftoff from Vandenberg Space Force Base, according to a base statement. Fi...
NASA says weather, SLS rocket look good for Artemis I launch on Saturday
Sep 02, 2021 (UPI)
The space agency was ready to launch Artemis I on Monday when fuel leaks and a problem with a core-stage main engine sensor led controllers to scrub the attempt...
FAA grounds Virgin Galactic amid spaceflight 'mishap' probe
Sep 02, 2021 (UPI)
The agency said the VSS Unity, a SpaceShipTwo spacecraft, deviated from its course as it returned to Spaceport America in New Mexico on July 11. "Virgin Galacti...
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