Space – Page 33
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NewsEndeavour on penultimate shuttle mission
Space shuttle Endeavour launched on 16 May on STS-134, its final mission before retirement and penultimate before the shuttle programme ends.
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NewsSpace Adventures gears up for private Moon mission in 2015
Space Adventures, the only company offering tourist orbital spaceflights, has offered to equip the Russian Soyuz TMA spaceship with additional living space for eight-day commercial flights around the Moon.
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NewsSpaceShipTwo makes 'feathered' descent
Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo has made its first flight in 'feathered' configuration, the planned standard configuration for the vehicle's atmospheric re-entry.
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NASA funding crucial to commercial spaceflight
NASA's role as the provider of pump priming funding for the commercial spaceflight industry is set to come under further scrutiny despite the recent award of the latest Commercial Crew Development (CCDev) contracts
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NewsShuttle Endeavour launch no earlier than 10 May
Space Shuttle Endeavour's final launch - and the next-to-last in the 30-year Shuttle programme - will come no earlier than 10 May; STS-134 had been set to launch to the International Space Station on 29 April, but lift-off was scrubbed with 4h to go owing problems with an auxiliary power ...
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NewsNASA awards second round commercial spaceflight contracts
NASA has awarded $280 million to four companies for development of manned commercial space systems. The second round of Commercial Crew Development...
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Business bad week
RUSSIA Fifty years after putting Yuri Gagarin in orbit, the country's rocket industry is under fire. Facing harsh criticism for a delayed Soyuz launch to...
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Space junk raises alarm
In January 2007, China successfully tested an anti-satellite missile, destroying one of its redundant spacecraft orbiting about 800km (1,290 miles) above...
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NASTAR Center simulates spaceflight in Philadelphia
The USA's National Aerospace Training and Research Center is putting aspiring suborbital fliers through the strains of spaceflight
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Business people
PEOPLE moves Aerojet, Flydubai, HKAC, ILFC, Jade Cargo, Raytheon Holcroft: Cambridge airport Islamic financier Mukesh Sodani is to join...
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SpaceX plans world's largest commercial rocket
SpaceX is to develop the world's largest commercial rocket that, if successful, could transform the market for heavy spacecraft. The Falcon 9 Heavy,...
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Europe to target space hazards
Europe must, as a matter of priority, establish a space situational awareness system to monitor orbiting debris, solar radiation and asteroids, according...
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Goodrich to provide sensor upgrade for U-2
Goodrich is providing Syers sensor upgrades for the USAF's U-2 and E-8C surveillance aircraft fleets ...
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India's opts for caution on return to launch pad
After two failures of its heavy lift Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle in April and December last year, India is taking a cautious approach to resuming...
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NewsXcor, ULA team up for upper-stage booster
Commercial spaceflight start-up Xcor Aerospace has teamed with the United Launch Alliance (ULA) to develop a low-cost challenger to the 52-year-old Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne RL10 engine.
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Surrey Satellite takes the small route to the high ground
Micro-satellites specialist Surrey Satellite Technology hopes soon to be preparing for launch of a new synthetic aperture radar payload that could bring a dramatic new capability to its Earth observation customers.
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NewsSecond X-37B mission reaches orbit
The second Boeing X-37B orbital test vehicle (OTV-2) launched into space on 5 March, riding atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from space launch...
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X-37B ready for second test flight
The US Air Force plans to launch the second test flight for the X-37B space plane on 4 March, the service says ...
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This Week briefing
Bombardier delivered 58 fewer aircraft during its 2010-11 fiscal year compared with the year before, but remains confident its fundamentals are strong in the long term for both the business and commercial aircraft markets
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Kepler launch marks 42nd straight Ariane 5 success
Ariane 5 underscored its reputation as the workhorse of heavylift launchers with its 42nd consecutive successful launch, and heaviest in its history, to send the 20.1t Johannes Kepler, the European Space Agency's second Automated Transfer Vehicle robotic supply ship, to the International Space Station.