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PH-1 test flight advances Chinese reusable suborbital spacecraft plans
Jan 13, 2026 (SPX)
The vehicle, designated PH-1, is developed by Beijing-based commercial aerospace company CAS Space and is intended to support low cost scientific experiments in...
Indian rocket hits snag during launch
Jan 12, 2026 (AFP)
The PSLV-C62, a four-stage launch vehicle, "encountered an anomaly" towards the end of the third stage, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) posted on ...
Starfighters completes supersonic tests for GE Aerospace ramjet program
Jan 06, 2026 (SPX)
As part of the ATLAS program, Starfighters flew three supersonic captive carry missions from Kennedy Space Center with the test vehicle mounted to the aircraft....
North Korea tests hypersonic missiles, says nuclear forces ready for war
Jan 05, 2026 (AFP)
Pyongyang said Sunday's test was made all the more necessary by "recent geopolitical crisis" -- a clear nod to this weekend's events in North Korea's socialist ...
Galileo satellites ride Ariane 6 to boost Europe navigation resilience
Jan 03, 2026 (SPX)
The spacecraft, designated SAT 33 and SAT 34, were launched at 06:01 CET and separated from the launcher after a flight of just under four hours, with mission t...
AI systems proposed to boost launch cadence reliability and traffic management
Dec 29, 2025 (SPX)
Reusable launch vehicles have reduced per-flight cost, but they do not yet deliver the launch tempo and reliability needed for this next phase of activity. A st...
China debuts Long March 12A reusable rocket in Jiuquan test flight
Dec 26, 2025 (SPX)
A 70.4-meter-high Long March 12A, the tallest space vehicle China has ever built, blasted off at 10 am from a newly constructed service tower at the Jiuquan Sat...
Japan's flagship H3 rocket fails to launch satellite
Dec 22, 2025 (AFP)
The second-stage engine "terminated prematurely" after the rocket blasted off at 10:51 am (0151 GMT) from the Tanegashima space centre in southern Japan, accord...
Hydrogen from ethanol reforming mapped as aviation fuel-cell pathway
Dec 19, 2025 (SPX)
The paper identifies electrochemical reforming as the route that best aligns with aviation's operational and environmental demands when set against steam methan...
Europe's Ariane 6 rocket puts EU navigation satellites in orbit
Dec 17, 2025 (AFP)
It was the fourth commercial mission of the Ariane 6 launch system since the long-delayed single-use rockets came into service last year. The rocket launched in...
Rocket Lab completes first dedicated JAXA mission with Electron launch
Dec 16, 2025 (SPX)
The flight, named RAISE And Shine, lifted off from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1 on New Zealand's Mahia Peninsula on December 14, 2025 at 03:09 UTC / 16:09 NZDT. ...
Southern Launch to host INNOSPACE missions from South Australian spaceports
Dec 16, 2025 (SPX)
The agreement allows INNOSPACE to undertake a range of missions from Southern Launch sites, including orbital satellite launches and suborbital technology demon...
China launches carrier rocket to deploy experimental cargo ship and satellite
Dec 14, 2025 (SPX)
The rocket blasted off at 9:08 am at the Jiuquan Space Launch Center in the Inner Mongolia autonomous region and soon placed the DEAR 5 ship and the Xiwang 5B s...
Musk signals plan to launch IPO for SpaceX
Dec 11, 2025 (AFP)
Musk, who is also the CEO of Tesla among other ventures, described as "accurate" a report in online publication Ars Technica outlining the controversial billion...
Neutron Hungry Hippo fairing completes qualification ahead of first launch
Dec 09, 2025 (SPX)
Neutron is described as a large carbon composite launch vehicle with a planned lift capacity of up to 13,000 kilograms, or about 33,000 pounds, to orbit. With t...
EU dismisses 'completely crazy statements' after Musk attack
Dec 08, 2025 (AFP)
"It's part of freedom of speech to put out even completely crazy statements," EU spokeswoman Paula Pinho said. Musk hit out at the EU over the weekend saying th...
Sea based rocket net recovery platform enters service for Chinese reusable launchers
Dec 08, 2025 (SPX)
The vessel, named Linghangzhe or Pathfinder, has been certified by the China Classification Society, becoming the first sea based rocket recovery platform in th...
UK plasma thruster test positions Pulsar Fusion for larger satellite propulsion
Dec 05, 2025 (SPX)
The project received partial funding from the UK Space Agency as part of a broader collaboration focused on advanced propulsion systems for future spacecraft. A...
EU hits Musk's X with 120-mn-euro fine, sparking US ire
Dec 05, 2025 (AFP)
The high-profile probe into the social media platform was seen as a test of the EU's resolve to police Big Tech. Even before the penalty was made public, US Vic...
Space shuttle design study maps path to breakthrough inventions
Dec 05, 2025 (SPX)
Management professor Francisco Polidoro Jr. of Texas McCombs compares the space shuttle to the original iPhone, noting that both depend on tightly linked featur...
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