All Space news – Page 16
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NewsBoeing completes wind tunnel tests for CST-100 and Atlas V
Boeing has completed two additional milestones under the commercial crew integrated capability (CCiCap) agreement with NASA, earning the company nearly $60...
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NewsPlanetary Resources unveils crowdfunded telescope
Asteroid mining hopeful Planetary Resources has unveiled a new space-based telescope design, with intentions to crowdsource funding and allow the public...
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NewsHoming in on threat posed by near Earth objects
While awareness that a cataclysmic meteor strike could end life on Earth as we know it is hardly new, events this year have rung alarm bells and flagged up the gap between our detection capabilities and the astonishing number of threats lurking in space.
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ADS-B signals get first-ever satellite boost
While one objective of North American and European drives to improve air traffic control is to exploit the automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast (ADS-B) systems that could augment or even replace radar as a way to track aircraft in flight, one telecommunications company hopes to go a step further and use satellites ...
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Soyuz delivers crew to International Space Station in six hours
The International Space Station (ISS) is fully staffed after the arrival late on 28 May of a multinational crew launched on a fast-track mission from Baikonur...
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NewsBigelow releases NASA-funded study on public-private partnerships
Bigelow Aerospace has formally completed the first phase of a public-private partnership study commissioned by NASA, laying out how the agency can capitalize...
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NewsJapan schedules first Epsilon space launch
Japan's first Epsilon rocket will launch on 22 August, says space agency JAXA. The Epsilon is propelled by three solid-fuel stages, based off the...
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NewsUK spaceflight gets a boost with Peake selection for 2015 ISS mission
Europe's contribution to the International Space Station crew rota has been agreed up to April 2016 with the selection of Timothy Peake to join expedition...
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NewsAir launch systems begin to come of age
An ageing Airbus A300, currently used to train astronauts in zero- g flight, is about to find another use as the first stage of a new air-launched...
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NewsDream Chaser shipped to NASA Dryden for glide tests
Sierra Nevada has shipped the Dream Chaser orbital spacecraft to NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center near Palmdale, California, for glide tests. The...
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NewsISS ammonia pump replacement appears successful
The coolant leak aboard the International Space Station (ISS), which required a spacewalk to replace a pump, appears successful though further testing is...
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NewsISS ammonia leak may require spacewalk for repair
An ammonia leak aboard the International Space Station (ISS) threatens to disrupt an electrical channel that may require a spacewalk to repair. The...
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NewsVega’s second success ‘confirms functionality’
The European Space Agency and its launch operator, Arianespace, have declared their new light launcher, Vega, to be "fully functional" following its second flight success in two attempts.
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SpaceX Grasshopper moves to New Mexico
SpaceX is moving its reusable rocket test bed to Spaceport America near Truth or Consequences, New Mexico. The move confirms big plans for the test...
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NewsSierra Nevada passes second NASA commercial crew checkpoint
Sierra Nevada has achieved its second milestone under NASA's commercial crew integrated capability (CCiCap) programme to develop the Dream Chaser, earning the company $45 million as the vehicle prepares for glide testing.
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NewsIN FOCUS: SpaceShipTwo makes first powered flight
Space tourism venture completes 16s in-flight engine burn, bringing commercial suborbital flights this year a step closer...
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NewsSpaceShipTwo ignites engine in-flight
Virgin Galactic has conducted the first powered flight of SpaceShipTwo, the crewed suborbital vehicle set to become the first capable of routine commercial...
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China and Russia successfully launch satellites
A Long March 2D rocket launched from Jiuquan, China has successfully inserted an Earth observation satellite into orbit, while a Russian Soyuz 2 launched from Plesetsk is inserting the latest addition to the Glonass navigation constellation.
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NewsBudget woes may mean schedule slips, employee furloughs for NASA
NASA administrator Charles Bolden defended his case for fully funding the space agency's budget request of $17.7 billion in fiscal 2014 during congressional...
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Successful Soyuz resupply launch to International Space Station
A Soyuz-U has launched from Baikonur, Kazakhstan, putting an uncrewed Progress supply capsule in orbit to dock with the International Space Station (ISS).