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ATK Announces Contract Award from ULA to Build Composite Launch Vehicle Structures

Apr 23, 2014 (SPX)

ATK has reached agreement on a $178 million contract award as part of the Air Force's Phase 1 Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle (EELV) buy from United Launch Al...

Russia to Test Launch New Angara Rocket June 25

Apr 23, 2014 (RIA Novosti)

The date of the maiden launch of Russia's new Angara rocket has been set for June 25, an official with the Russian Space Agency told RIA Novosti Friday. "The la...

NASA Gears Up for Next Set of Engine Tests for Space Launch System

Apr 16, 2014 (SPX)

The RS-25 engine that will power NASA's new rocket, the Space Launch System (SLS), off the launch pad and on journeys to an asteroid and Mars is getting ready f...

Avionics System for SLS Boosters Gets 'Boost' of Its Own on Path to Space

Apr 11, 2014 (SPX)

The avionics that will guide NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) boosters on the rocket's trip to deep space missions will get a big "boost" toward being ready for...

NASA Engineers Prepare Game Changing Cryotank for Testing

Apr 11, 2014 (SPX)

NASA and Boeing engineers are inspecting and preparing one of the largest composite rocket propellant tanks ever manufactured for testing. The composite cryotan...

NASA Signs Deal With German, Canadian Partners To Test New Fuels

Apr 11, 2014 (SPX)

NASA has signed separate agreements with the German Aerospace Center (DLR) and the National Research Council of Canada (NRC) to conduct a series of joint flight...

SLS Core Stage Model 'Sounds' Off for Testing

Apr 07, 2014 (SPX)

A 5-percent scale model of the Space Launch System (SLS) core stage fires up for another round of acoustic testing at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Hun...

Airbus Defence and Space to cooperate with Snecma on electric propulsion

Mar 25, 2014 (SPX)

Airbus Defence and Space has signed a cooperation agreement with Snecma (Safran) for the use of Snecma's PPS5000 engine in Airbus Defence and Space's Eurostar s...

Boeing on Schedule to Deliver World's First All-Electric Satellites

Mar 25, 2014 (SPX)

Boeing is on track to deliver the world's first all-electric propulsion satellites in late 2014 or early 2015 as it has met key production milestones on its ini...

Advancing the Technology Readiness Of SLS Adaptive Controls

Mar 25, 2014 (SPX)

Can a rocket maneuver like an airplane? And can an airplane act as a surrogate for a maneuvering rocket? NASA engineers demonstrated just that when they used a ...

Europe's IXV atmospheric reentry demonstrator ready for final tests

Mar 24, 2014 (SPX)

IXV (Intermediate eXperimental Vehicle), the European Space Agency's atmospheric reentry demonstrator developed by Thales Alenia Space, has finished development...

First filament winding operations on new Ariane 6 motor structure completed

Mar 21, 2014 (SPX)

Airbus Defence and Space has just begun the first filament winding operations on a motor case for the future European launcher Ariane 6. This first unit, of a s...

Space Launch System - Who Needs It

Mar 19, 2014 (SPX)

NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) is a Space Shuttle - derived heavy launch vehicle developed for future human space exploration. Launchspace engineers think of ...

US to seek licence for domestic production of Russia's RD-180 rocket engines

Mar 18, 2014 (Voice of Russia)

The US will consider the expediency of further use of Russia's RD-180 rocket engines, given the recent developments in Ukraine, according to the US Defence Secr...

NASA reveals hovering prototype planetary lander Morpheus

Mar 13, 2014 (Voice of Russia)

NASA's latest test vehicle may not survive in its current form going forward, but its ability to hover like a helicopter and land on tough terrain could prove i...

Boosters for Orion's Launch Vehicle Arrive to Cape Canaveral

Mar 11, 2014 (SPX)

The Orion spacecraft has moved another step closer toward its first test flight as the core and starboard boosters for the United Launch Alliance (ULA) Delta IV...

MIT team proposes storing extra rocket fuel in space for future missions

Mar 10, 2014 (SPX)

Future lunar missions may be fueled by gas stations in space, according to MIT engineers: A spacecraft might dock at a propellant depot, somewhere between the E...

NASA Tests New Robotic Refueling Technologies

Mar 09, 2014 (SPX)

NASA has successfully concluded a remotely controlled test of new technologies that would empower future space robots to transfer hazardous oxidizer - a type of...

Sierra Nevada Completes Dream Chaser Flight Profile Data Milestone

Mar 06, 2014 (SPX)

Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) announces the successful completion of a flight-profile data review milestone for its Dream Chaser spacecraft. Completed under t...

Japan Calls For New Launcher Proposals

Mar 03, 2014 (SPX)

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) is making final preparations towards the development of our new flagship launch vehicle from Japan Fiscal Year (JF...