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Rocket Lab launches ninth Electron mission, deploys payload to highest orbit yet

Oct 17, 2019 (SPX)

The mission, named 'As The Crow Flies,' lifted off from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1 on New Zealand's Mahia Peninsula at 01:22 UTC, 17 October 2019 (14:22 NZDT)....

Russia eyes launching satellite into orbit from Saudi Arabia

Oct 15, 2019 (Sputnik)

While space and high technology are known to be among the key areas for cooperation between Russia and Saudi Arabia, Kirill Dmitriev, the head of the Russian Di...

U.S. Army to deploy hypersonic missiles by 2023

Oct 15, 2019 (UPI)

Robert Strider, deputy director of Army hypersonic programs on Monday told attendees of the AUSA convention that an experimental prototype, "with residual comba...

Aerojet Rocketdyne teams with NASA to develop novel rocket engine technology

Oct 14, 2019 (SPX)

The goal of the project is to reduce manufacturing costs and make a thrust chamber that is easily scalable to support a variety of missions, including America's...

Aerojet Rocketdyne teams with NASA to develop novel rocket engine technology

Oct 14, 2019 (SPX)

The goal of the project is to reduce manufacturing costs and make a thrust chamber that is easily scalable to support a variety of missions, including America's...

Space and Missile Systems Center completes summer launch campaign; with small launchers next focus

Oct 14, 2019 (SPX)

Launching four critical missions in under 60 days from NASA's Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, SMC/LE's "Summer of Launch '...

NASA and SpaceX hope for manned mission to ISS in early 2020

Oct 11, 2019 (AFP)

Bridenstine made the announcement as he toured the California headquarters of billionaire Elon Musk's SpaceX, a major contractor for NASA. The visit came as Bri...

NASA, SpaceX present united front on human spaceflight

Oct 11, 2019 (SPX)

"This is a big deal for our country," Bridenstine said, standing next to Musk at SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne, Calif. "We can't get it wrong. In fact, we ha...

SwRI hypersonic research spotlights future flight challenges

Oct 10, 2019 (SPX)

"Hypersonic speed is defined as faster than five times the speed of sound or greater than Mach 5. When something is flying that fast, the air will chemically de...

Jet taking off from Florida will launch NASA weather satellite

Oct 10, 2019 (UPI)

The Ionospheric Connection Explorer or ICON satellite will help NASA understand and predict how solar flares interact with the earth's atmosphere and magnetic f...

Boeing's HorizonX $20M investment in Virgin Galactic values VG at $1.5B

Oct 09, 2019 (UPI)

Boeing's venture arm HorizonX will make the investment, which gives the Chicago-based company a minority stake in Virgin Galactic and will boost the latter's va...

Sea Launch platform stripped of foreign equipment, ready to leave US for Russia

Oct 09, 2019 (Sputnik)

The Sea Launch maritime launch platform has been prepared to be moved from the US to Russia, with all of its US and Ukrainian-made components removed, a source ...

RAF pilot seconded to Virgin Orbit

Oct 04, 2019 (SPX)

The announcement was made in Long Beach, California, aboard the iconic RMS Queen Mary ship - a fitting venue given the ship's history as Winston Churchill's flo...

Virgin Orbit selects RAF pilot as it plans satellite launch program

Oct 04, 2019 (UPI)

Flight Lt. Mathew Stannard will join the Virgin Orbit program in a three-year contract. He will be one of the company's pilots in the trials of Boeing 747-400 a...

Artemis Generation takes on NASA Student Launch: 64 teams to compete

Oct 04, 2019 (SPX)

On Oct. 3, NASA announced the 64 teams from 21 states and Puerto Rico participating in the 2020 NASA Student Launch competition. The eight-month program require...

SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket to blast off in 2021 with private lunar lander

Oct 04, 2019 (Sputnik)

The commercial lander, known as Nova-C, is expected to launch from Complex 39A at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) Kennedy Space Cente...

Italy signs first ever agreement with Virgin to launch suborbital research missions

Oct 03, 2019 (Sputnik)

On Wednesday, Virgin Galactic signed an agreement with the Italian Air Force which would include putting humans on board its suborbital spacecraft VSS Unity and...

Space Launch System mock up arrives at Kennedy for testing

Oct 03, 2019 (SPX)

The upgraded 310-foot-long barge arrived Sept. 27, 2019, ferrying the 212-foot-long Space Launch System rocket core stage pathfinder. Weighing in at 228,000 pou...

Rocket Lab to launch dedicated mission for Astro Digital

Oct 02, 2019 (SPX)

The dedicated mission is scheduled to take place during a 14-day launch window opening on October 15 NZDT (14 October UTC). The mission will lift-off from Rocke...

New US spacecraft to conduct first manned flights to ISS in 2020 says Roscosmos Chief

Oct 02, 2019 (Sputnik)

"The Americans expect that they will start flying on board their own spacecraft. According to NASA, with whom we were negotiating now at Baikonur, they hope to ...