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Southern Launch prepares for lift off In South Australia
Jul 16, 2020 (SPX)
LEO are ideal for Earth Observation missions and other near-earth activities, including internet with global coverage. Approximately half of these SmallSats are...
Spaceflight unveils next-gen orbital transfer vehicle to fly aboard SpaceX mission
Jul 16, 2020 (SPX)
The mission, called SXRS-3 by Spaceflight, is scheduled to launch on a Falcon 9 no earlier than December 2020. Spaceflight has contracted 16 spacecraft for this...
Soyuz Launches From Kourou to Resume in October, German Aerospace Centre Says
Jul 13, 2020 (Sputnik)
The launch was initially scheduled for 6 March but was postponed due to a malfunction on the Fregat-M upper stage. Later, the Kourou Space Centre in French Guia...
New electric propulsion chamber explores the future of space travel
Jul 09, 2020 (SPX)
Aerospace's electric propulsion lab specializes in testing electric thrusters in space-like conditions, and they recently installed a new vacuum chamber that wi...
NASA astronauts and Russian cosmonauts perform habitability test of Crew Dragon capsule
Jul 09, 2020 (Sputnik)
"The crew will arrange the cabin to suit the four-space residents and report their comfort levels to engineers on the ground", the release said on Wednesday. Th...
Rocket Lab promises customers to 'Leave No Stone Unturned' launch failure
Jul 07, 2020 (Sputnik)
The CEO of Rocket Lab, Peter Beck, promised to "leave no stone unturned" after the company's Electron rocket experienced an anomaly during its latest mission an...
NASA hits Boeing with 80 recommendations before next space test
Jul 07, 2020 (AFP)
The recommendations primarily concern the on-board software, which was the main problem with the flight test last December. The capsule could not be placed in t...
Rocket Lab Mission Fails to Reach Orbit
Jul 04, 2020 (SPX)
The issue occurred approximately four minutes into the flight on July 4, 2020 and resulted in the safe loss of the vehicle. As a result, the payloads onboard El...
NASA Assembles Artemis II Orion Stage Adapter
Jul 03, 2020 (SPX)
Three panels were built by AMRO Fabricating Corp. in South El Monte, California and shipped to Marshall where engineers and technicians from NASA are joining th...
Advanced Rockets Corporation granted Space Vehicle System patents
Jul 02, 2020 (SPX)
The patent also addresses critical factors for reducing the cost of access to space, including, high-utilization, Continuous Intact Abort Capability (CIAC), and...
NASA checks out SLS Core Stage avionics for Artemis I mission
Jul 01, 2020 (SPX)
The SLS avionics power on and checkout was the second of eight tests in the Green Run test series at NASA's Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi...
NASA Plans for More SLS Rocket Boosters to Launch Artemis Moon Missions
Jun 30, 2020 (SPX)
Under this letter contract, with a potential value of $49.5 million, NASA will provide initial funding and authorization to Northrop Grumman to order long-lead ...
SpaceX launches next-generation GPS satellite from Florida
Jun 30, 2020 (UPI)
The Falcon 9 rocket lifted off at 4:10 p.m. EDT from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Launch Complex 40 into a partly cloudy sky as temperatures reached the mid...
Russia's Roscosmos Reveals Cost of Angara Heavy-Lift Rocket for Defence Ministry
Jun 30, 2020 (Sputnik)
"The contract for several rockets of this type was signed, as part of the research and development work, at a price below 5 billion rubles for one rocket. This ...
The rocket fired by Scrum
Jun 26, 2020 (SPX)
"The significance of the second stage test cannot be overstated," said Charlie Precourt, vice president, propulsion systems, Northrop Grumman. "We had already f...
SpaceX scrubs Starlink launch with two BlackSky satellites
Jun 26, 2020 (UPI)
The change in plans was not weather-related. "Standing down from Friday's Starlink mission; team needed additional time for pre-launch checkouts, but Falcon 9 a...
Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo Completes Second Flight from Spaceport America
Jun 26, 2020 (SPX)
On SpaceShipTwo Unity's flight deck were Mark 'Forger' Stucky and Michael 'Sooch' Masucci. Both pilots are commercial astronauts, having each previously flown U...
Virgin Galactic's Unity completes final test before adding rocket power
Jun 26, 2020 (Sputnik)
Flying out of its new Spaceport America in the New Mexico desert, space exploration company Virgin Galactic conducted its second successful gliding test of Unit...
NASA completes Artemis SLS structural testing campaign
Jun 26, 2020 (SPX)
"The Space Launch System and Marshall test team have done a tremendous job of accomplishing this test program, marking a major milestone not only for the SLS Pr...
Gilmour Space achieves 45-second milestone in latest hybrid rocket engine test fire
Jun 25, 2020 (SPX)
Rocket engineers at Gilmour Space Technologies in Queensland, Australia, have completed the first in a series of major technology demonstrations this year: a su...
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