All Space articles – Page 25
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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.
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NewsUS warns debris genuine threat to orbital space
On the agenda of the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space meeting currently being held in Vienna is the increasingly urgent problem of space debris.
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NewsSierra Nevada completes Dream Chaser preliminary design review
Sierra Nevada has completed the preliminary design review (PDR) of the Dream Chaser spacecraft, a crucial design milestone for the vehicle. "There...
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NewsSeaLaunch puts Intelsat 19 in orbit, but satellite has a problem
A Zenit launch vehicle has successfully inserted Intelsat 19 into geosynchronous transfer orbit (GTO) after its 1 June liftoff from the SeaLaunch platform...
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NewsBlue Origin completes system requirements review of reusable capsule
Commercial space company Blue Origin has completed the system requirements review (SRR) of its reusable Space Vehicle, which will earn the company $900,000...
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NewsFAA awards suborbital flight permit to SpaceShipTwo
The US Federal Aviation Administration has awarded a suborbital launch permit to Scaled Composites for testing its SpaceShipTwo suborbital tourism vehicle...
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NewsVandenberg AFB readies for X-37B landing
US Air Force Space Command is preparing to receive the Boeing X-37B when it descends from a year-long orbit as early as this weekend to land at Vandenberg...
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NewsCORRECTED: Sierra Nevada's Dream Chaser begins flight testing
Sierra Nevada Corporation's Dream Chaser orbital spacecraft has begun initial flight testing, and the company has announced completing four milestones under...
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NewsSpaceX signs Intelsat as first Falcon 9 Heavy customer
SpaceX has announced that major communications satellite operator Intelsat is the first customer for its Falcon 9 Heavy, essentially three-core, 27-engine...
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NewsSpaceX launch heralds a new beginning for commercial spaceflight
SpaceX's Dragon capsule is destined for ISS rather than far galaxies, but the mission opens a new era in space travel
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NewsExcalibur Almaz details plans for capsule and space station
Excalibur Almaz has detailed its plans to launch spacecraft to space stations in orbit around the moon, the first time the secretive company has done so...
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NewsStratolaunch enters system design review
The Stratolaunch system has entered system design review (SDR), says team partner Dynetics, a key milestone in designing the unique and complex launch vehicle. After...