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IXV test flight total success says operations manager

Apr 01, 2015 (SPX)

European Intermediate eXperimental Vehicle (IXV) was launched on a Vega rocket from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana on Feb. 11. The spacecraft was then rele...

Falcon 9 Evolves

Mar 31, 2015 (SPX)

SpaceX developed the two-stage Falcon 9, a family of launch vehicles that consists of the Falcon 9 v1.0, Falcon 9 v1.1, and the partially-reusable Falcon 9-R. B...

Lockheed Martin buys high-speed wind tunnel

Mar 26, 2015 (UPI)

Lockheed Martin has purchased the high speed wind tunnel it has leased for years from Triumph Aerostructures for research and development testing. The wind tunn...

Aerojet Rocketdyne Hot-Fire Tests Additive Components for the AR1 Engine

Mar 23, 2015 (SPX)

Aerojet Rocketdyne has recently completed a successful series of hot-fire tests of key additively manufactured components for its AR1 booster engine at its Sacr...

Sierra Nevada Corporation Unveils New Dream Chaser Cargo System

Mar 23, 2015 (SPX)

Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) unveiled a new Dream Chaser mission variant today, the Dream Chaser Cargo System, SNC's complete system solution for NASA's Comm...

Morpheus Project wins AES Innovation Award

Mar 19, 2015 (SPX)

Through every failure a lesson may be learned and a triumph may be had, especially in the case of the Morpheus/Autonomous Landing and Hazard Avoidance Technolog...

Replacing Russian Rocket Engine to Take 7 Years

Mar 19, 2015 (Sputnik)

As a result of alleged Russian interference in the internal affairs of Ukraine, the 2015 US National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) prohibits the use of the R...

NASA's Space Launch System Booster Passes Major Ground Test

Mar 15, 2015 (SPX)

The largest, most powerful rocket booster ever built successfully fired up Wednesday for a major-milestone ground test in preparation for future missions to hel...

Heat Shield for NASA's Orion Continues Post-Flight Journey by Land

Mar 11, 2015 (SPX)

The heat shield for NASA's Orion spacecraft that successfully survived a high-velocity re-entry during its December 2014 flight test, is continuing its journey,...

In 'milestone' toward Mars, NASA test-fires rocket

Mar 11, 2015 (AFP)

The most powerful solid rocket booster ever built was fired up for the first time Wednesday in a test that NASA described as a "significant milestone" toward Ma...

Booster Temps Will be Just Right for Major Ground Test

Mar 11, 2015 (SPX)

Steam me up, Scotty. Well before this week's major ground test of the booster for NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) rocket, engineers have been warming things up...

Shaking test for for Space Launch System at Redstone Test Center

Mar 05, 2015 (SPX)

There's a whole lot of shaking going on at the Redstone Test Center in Alabama for NASA's new mega rocket, the Space Launch System (SLS). SLS will be the most p...

IXV Spaceplane misison a boost Thales Alenia Space

Feb 24, 2015 (SPX)

On Feb. 11, ESA's Intermediate eXperimental Vehicle (IXV), atmospheric reentry demonstrator, successfully completed its first test flight, ending with a splashd...

Orion test flight yields critical data for next mission

Feb 24, 2015 (SPX)

NASA's Orion spacecraft continues on the agency's journey to Mars as engineers analyze data from the spacecraft's December flight test and make progress develop...

NASA, Orbital ATK preparing solid tocket booster avionics

Feb 24, 2015 (SPX)

A pretty strand of lights can quickly turn into a pain when one electrical short takes the twinkle out of the whole brigade. An arduous process begins of checki...

School is in Session: Welcome to Boosters 101

Feb 19, 2015 (SPX)

Have your pencils and notebooks handy because school is in session. Welcome to Boosters 101. No, this lesson is not about a child seat or an amusement park ride...

A Composite Booster Gets a Burst of Energy

Feb 19, 2015 (SPX)

Turning a rocket booster case into spaghetti sounds more like magic than engineering, but a test that did just that could be an important step in the future of ...

China tests new carrier rocket's power system

Feb 12, 2015 (XNA)

Chinese scientists have completed a ground test on the power system of the country's next-generation carrier rocket which may fly as early as next year. Scienti...

Europe tests space plane in step to strategic goal

Feb 11, 2015 (AFP)

Europe on Wednesday said it successfully launched and brought back to Earth a prototype space plane in a strategy to join an elite club of space powers. In a 10...

ESA experimental spaceplane completes research flight

Feb 11, 2015 (ESA)

An experimental vehicle to develop an autonomous European reentry capability for future reusable space transportation has completed its mission. ESA's Intermedi...