Space – Page 15
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NewsSpace Launch System enters preliminary design review
NASA's Space Launch System (SLS), the next-generation rocket built to launch crewed missions beyond Earth orbit, has formally entered the preliminary design...
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PARIS: FLIR reveals imaging system for low-slung aircraft
FLIR Systems has introduced a new imaging system that provides extremely high resolution while being carried under low-slung aircraft such as helicopters.
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PARIS: Earth observation projects on show
While Paris air show eyes are naturally fixed on the aircraft and systems on static display or flying daily overhead, much of the action that helps give the "aerospace" industry its name will be well out of sight.
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NewsPARIS: Brent Tweddle wins the Boeing Engineering Student of the Year award
Leader of a project designing specialist goggles allow satellites to ‘see’ moving objects, Brent Tweddle is the Boieing Engineering Student of the Year.
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NewsPARIS: Elon Musk wins Leader of the Year at the Flightglobal Achievement Awards
The inspiring entrepreneur has transformed the launch vehicle industry and wins Flightglobal's Leader of the Year award
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NewsPARIS: NASA’s Curiosity wins Innovator of the Year at the Flightglobal Achievement Awards
NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory, or Curiosity, is one of the most innovative spacecraft ever built, winning this year's Flightglobal Achievement Awards.
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NewsDual-engine Centaur upper stage design hits major milestone
United Launch Alliance (ULA) has completed the preliminary design review for the dual-engine Centaur (DEC) upper stage, crucial to several commercial orbital...
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China launches fifth human spaceflight
China has successfully launched its fifth human spaceflight mission, Shenzhou 10, carrying a crew of three into low Earth orbit (LEO). The 11 June...
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NewsLockheed Martin Orion capsule completes structural testing
Lockheed Martin's Orion spacecraft has finished structural testing and is structurally prepared for its first launch in September, 2014. The capsule...
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NewsPARIS: European Space Agency's busy year looks forward and very far back
ESA is in the middle of one of its busiest years, with missions to study galaxies, moons and magnetic fields
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NewsAriane 5 launches European supply capsule
An Ariane 5 ES has successfully launched Automated Transfer Vehicle 4 (ATV 4) to resupply the International Space Station (ISS). The 5 June launch...
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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...