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Aerojet Rocketdyne Successfully Tests Hypersonic DMRJ Engine

Oct 09, 2018 (SPX)

"Developing hypersonic capabilities has recently been cited by Department of Defense officials as the 'highest technical priority' for our nation," said Aerojet...

First SpaceX mission with astronauts set for June 2019: NASA

Oct 05, 2018 (AFP)

It will be the first manned US launch to the orbiting research laboratory since the space shuttle program was retired in 2011, forcing US astronauts to hitch co...

SpaceX uses dumping to drive Russia out of space launch market claims Roscosmos

Oct 02, 2018 (Sputnik)

"If you look at the price at which [Musk] sells Falcon [rocket launch vehicles] to the Pentagon and what its price is on the market, you'll see that it is pure ...

SLS chief engineer driven by 'challenge' of building rocket

Oct 02, 2018 (SPX)

"Building the world's most powerful rocket has been challenging," Lyles said. "There is tremendous complexity in how all the pieces and parts of the Space Launc...

A decade of commercial space travel - what's next?

Oct 01, 2018 (The Conversation)

But 10 years ago, none of those innovations were guaranteed. In fact, on Sept. 28, 2008, an entire company watched and hoped as their flagship product attempted...

Nucleus completes successful first launch

Oct 01, 2018 (SPX)

Nucleus launched at 14:16: local time from Andoya Space Center in Northern Norway, and reached an altitude of 107.4 km. That made it not only the first rocket p...

Vector Awarded Patent for Enhanced Liquid Oxygen-Propylene Rocket Engine

Sep 27, 2018 (SPX)

Vector is the first and only launch provider to utilize propylene fuel and liquid oxygen (LOX) in an operational launch system. This engine patent validates the...

Brilliant, brash and volatile, Elon Musk faces new challenge

Sep 27, 2018 (AFP)

But along with Elon Musk's grand ambition comes a brash demeanor with little tolerance for criticism. The founder and chief executive of Tesla and other compani...

Jeff Bezos space project lands big rocket partnership

Sep 27, 2018 (AFP)

United Launch Alliance said that Blue Origin will provide engines for the booster stage of a next-generation rocket -- the Vulcan Centaur -- which is on track t...

DARPA invests in propellant-free rocket theory

Sep 26, 2018 (UPI)

McCulloch believes his ideas about quantized inertia and Unruh radiation can inspire the creation of a rocket engine that turns light into thrust without the as...

Japan firm signs with SpaceX for lunar missions

Sep 26, 2018 (AFP)

Private lunar exploration company ispace said it would blast a lander and rovers towards the moon on a SpaceX rocket on two separate missions. The spaceware wil...

Europe's Ariane 5 rocket blasts off for 100th time

Sep 26, 2018 (AFP)

The Ariane 5 spacecraft took off from the Caribbean launch site on Tuesday at 19:38 (22:38 GMT), propelling two telecoms satellites into orbit. In service for m...

China to launch Long March-9 rocket in 2028

Sep 21, 2018 (XNA)

Li Guoping, director of the Department of System Engineering of the CNSA, said that the length of the Long March-9 will exceed 90 meters, and the rocket would h...

Arianespace to launch KOMPSAT-7 for the Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI) using a Vega C launch vehicle

Sep 21, 2018 (SPX)

Using a Vega C launcher, the mission will be conducted from the Guiana Space Center in Kourou, French Guiana, from December 2021. For nearly 30 years now, Arian...

Russia plans to develop reusable stage for carrier rocket by 2023, FPI Says

Sep 21, 2018 (Sputnik)

"As for the whole project, we are counting on four years from the start of the fully-fledged work...According to our estimates, the work will begin in the first...

100th Ariane 5 will carry Horizons 3e and Azerspace-2 Intelsat 38

Sep 19, 2018 (ESA)

With this 300th mission of its three-member launcher family - and the 100th utilizing the European-developed heavy-lift Ariane 5 - Arianespace once again serves...

SpaceX Open to Deploying Orbital Weapons for US

Sep 19, 2018 (Sputnik)

SpaceX's President and Chief Operating Officer Gwynne Shotwell announced during the Air Force Association's annual conference that the space company is ready to...

SSTL confirms the successful launch of NovaSAR-1 and SSTL S1-4 satellites

Sep 18, 2018 (SPX)

Sir Martin Sweeting, Executive Chairman of SSTL, said "I am pleased to confirm that successful contact has been made with both satellites and they are in good h...

Japanese billionaire businessman revealed as SpaceX's first Moon traveler

Sep 18, 2018 (AFP)

Maezawa, 42, will be the first lunar traveler since the last US Apollo mission in 1972. He paid an unspecified amount of money for the privilege. "Ever since I ...

UK, India Space Agencies Launch Twin Satellites Into Orbit, Collaborate Efforts

Sep 18, 2018 (Sputnik)

The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) successfully launched two British commercial satellites into sun synchronous orbit, roughly 583 kilometers above E...