All Space news – Page 24
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NewsVirgin Galactic to launch smallsats from WhiteKnightTwo
Virgin Galactic has announced reinvigorated plans to launch small satellites into orbit using its WhiteKnightTwo carrier aircraft, a unique Scaled Composites-built...
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NewsIN FOCUS: Farnborough air show promises to be another success, despite its detractors
To its knockers, the Farnborough air show has become an anachronism. The event, they say, remains anchored in an era when British brands ruled the skies...
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NewsSpaceX fires new Merlin 1D for full duration
SpaceX has conducted the first full duration test fire of a more efficient and more powerful engine to power future Falcon-9 and Falcon-9 Heavy flights....
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NewsSLS Pad may be made reconfigurable for other launch vehicles
As NASA plots the future of the Space Launch System (SLS) programme and fends off accusations that it is starving the funding of the commercial crew development...
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NewsEuropean Space Agency's ATV supply ship may be basis for Orion service module
The European Space Agency's ATV (Automated Transfer Vehicle) robotic resupply ship may live on beyond its last planned mission to the International Space...
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NewsESA re-entry test needs new budget after Russian pull-out
One element in a European Space Agency push to develop vehicles capable of re-entry has been pushed back until at least 2013 as the agency seeks a launch...
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NewsBoeing and NASA hit major milestones for super-heavy launch vehicle
Boeing and NASA have completed the system requirements review (SRR) and system definition review (SDR) for the cryogenic stages of Space Launch System (SLS),...
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NewsExcalibur Almaz signs MoU with Xcor
Commercial spaceflight company Excalibur Almaz has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Xcor to provide suborbital astronaut training. Xcor...
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NewsUS government, industry support launch insurance indemnification
Witnesses representing US government agencies and the commercial spaceflight industry supported extending insurance indemnification for commercial spaceflight...
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NewsChina successfully launches crewed capsule to its space station
China has successfully launched the crewed Shenzhou-9 capsule and docked it with the Tiangong space station in low earth orbit. The Long March 2F rocket...
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NewsOrbital Sciences successfully launches NuSTAR X-ray observatory
An Orbital Sciences Pegasus XL launch vehicle has successfully launched NASA's nuclear spectroscopic telescope array (NuSTAR) into low Earth orbit. After...
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NewsOrbital Sciences receives final launch approval for NASA telescope
Orbital Sciences' Pegasus launch vehicle has received final approval to launch NASA's nuclear spectroscopic telescope array (NuSTAR), scheduled for 13 June....
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NewsIN FOCUS: Setting sail for the stars with 100-year project
At the intersection of science fiction and engineering is an interstellar propulsion technology known as the beam-powered light sail.
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NewsIN FOCUS: New players thrusting forward in space game
From the International Space Station to orbital science and deep-space exploration, European, Russian and US space programmes represent the bulk of regular launch and operations activity.
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NewsIN FOCUS: Virgin Galactic looks to the stars
Virgin Galactic's decade-long project to open the age of suborbital spaceflight for fare-paying passengers got a shot in the arm last month with a US Federal Aviation Administration green light for rocket-powered test flights of SpaceShipTwo.
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NewsIN FOCUS: Future of EELVs hangs in the balance
United Launch Alliance is the US government's main launch service but customers including the Air Force are looking beyond Atlas and Delta
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NewsIN FOCUS: Researchers pursue multiple routes to reusable rockets
Rocket scientists and engineers are working on reusable concepts that will change the way mankind accesses space within the next 20 years
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NewsIntelsat 19 experienced 'unusual' event during launch
A SeaLaunch Zenit launch vehicle experienced an 'unusual' event during the 31 May launch of Intelsat 19. Despite reaching its assigned transfer orbit, the...
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NewsNASA, House compromise on awards for commercial crew development
NASA has confirmed that the agency intends to make no more than two full awards and one half-sized award for the commercial crew integrated capability (CCiCap)...
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NewsSurrey Satellite turns to Xbox for latest technology
While many parents are understandably quick to criticise computer games as mindless time wasters with a narcotic grip on their offspring, engineers at Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) see in the latest addition to Microsoft's Xbox system a shortcut to resolving several conundrums of spacecraft design.