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Virgin Galactic signs agreement with NASA
Jun 23, 2020 (UPI)
NASA said it hopes the agreement will encourage more commercial participation in low Earth orbit. Under the agreement, Virgin Galactic will develop the program ...
China launches final satellite to complete rival to GPS
Jun 23, 2020 (AFP)
Footage broadcast live on television showed a rocket blasting off with the satellite from a mountainous region of southwest China, which state media hailed as a...
Australian professor wants local town to become hub for commercial space travel
Jun 22, 2020 (SPX)
Steven Moore, Deputy Dean of Research, Professor from Central Queensland University (CQU) wants to create a hub for commercial space travel in the town of Bowen...
NASA Prepares to Complete Artemis SLS Rocket Structural Testing
Jun 22, 2020 (SPX)
In the name of science, engineers will try to break a structural test article of the tank--on purpose. The liquid oxygen tank's structure is identical to the ta...
Launch postponement for Flight VV16 due to weather conditions at the Spaceport
Jun 19, 2020 (ESA)
Therefore, tomorrow's scheduled liftoff from French Guiana has been postponed. Depending on suitable weather conditions, the soonest possible launch date for th...
Spacecrafts get a boost in 'aerogravity assisted' interactions
Jun 19, 2020 (SPX)
A technique in which energy gains are granted to a spacecraft by a close encounter with a planet or other celestial body via that body's atmosphere and gravity....
Researchers design a system to reduce the noise of space rockets in the launch phase
Jun 19, 2020 (SPX)
"During the launch of space rockets, over 150 dB of sound pressure level are reached at certain frequencies. It is the highest level sound event produced by a h...
New US-UK agreement boosts UK's Spaceport plans
Jun 18, 2020 (SPX)
UK Ambassador Dame Karen Pierce and U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for International Security and Non-proliferation, Christopher Ford, signed the US-UK Techn...
SpaceX wants to build offshore spaceports for hypersonic flights around Earth
Jun 18, 2020 (Sputnik)
"SpaceX is building floating, superheavy-class spaceports for Mars, moon and hypersonic travel around Earth," Musk tweeted. Musk linked to another tweet regardi...
Northrop Grumman rocket boosters arrive at KSC for Artemis I mission
Jun 16, 2020 (SPX)
The booster segments will be the first elements of the SLS rocket to be stacked on the mobile launcher in preparation for the launch of Artemis I, and the compl...
Putin: Russia is building defenses against hypersonic missiles
Jun 15, 2020 (UPI)
The United States and China have begun hypersonic missile programs, building nuclear-equipped armaments capable of traveling up to 5,000 mph in a flat trajector...
Rocket Lab launches Boston University's magnetosphere experiment
Jun 13, 2020 (UPI)
California-based Rocket Labs, which owns the New Zealand launch site on the Mahia Peninsula, lofted the satellites aboard a company Electron rocket at 1:12 a.m....
Arianespace Vega mission to perform Small Spacecraft Mission Service Proof of Concept flight
Jun 12, 2020 (ESA)
The European Space Agency (ESA) funded the SSMS hardware development, and also contributed with the European Union to the funding of this "Proof of Concept" (Po...
Kids are building rockets from their bedrooms
Jun 11, 2020 (SPX)
Kids get to explore topics such as building and launching real-life rockets, Rocket Lab missions, the future of space, jobs in space, and even space entrepreneu...
New Zealand rocket launch postponed due to wind gusts
Jun 11, 2020 (UPI)
Private aerospace company Rocket Lab grounded the launch due to high winds and rescheduled for this weekend. "We have several days left in the launch window for...
Winds scrub Rocket Lab launch from New Zealand
Jun 10, 2020 (UPI)
California-based Rocket Labs, which owns the New Zealand launch site, is scheduled to send the satellites into orbit aboard the company's Electron rocket at 12:...
Agency seeks hypersonic missile defense system proposals
Jun 08, 2020 (UPI)
The request for proposals, issued last week, calls for "commercial services to launch and support its Tracking Phenomenology Experiment [TPE],"and represents th...
China plans to develop new solid-fueled carrier rocket
Jun 07, 2020 (XNA)
The upgraded carrier rocket, called the Long March-11A, will be designed for both land and sea launches, and its cost is calculated at 10,000 U.S. dollars per k...
ESA moves ahead on low-cost reusable rocket engine
Jun 05, 2020 (ESA)
At the Space19+ Council meeting in Seville, Spain last November, ESA received full funding to bring the current Prometheus engine design to a technical maturity...
ULA on track to launch new Vulcan rocket in early 2021
Jun 05, 2020 (UPI)
The new rocket is designed to provide a more efficient, more powerful launch vehicle than ULA's workhorse rockets, Atlas and Delta, with engines produced in the...
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