Shenzhou-9 spacecraft to return Friday morning
The Shenzhou-9 manned spacecraft will return to Earth around 10 a.m. Beijing Time Friday, a spokesperson for China’s manned space program announced here Thursday. …
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Boeing Validates Performance of Crew Space Transportation Vehicle’s Attitude Control Engine
Boeing recently demonstrated the dual-role propulsion features and performance of the Orbital Maneuvering Attitude Control (OMAC) engine on the service module for the company’s Crew…
Lockheed Martin Commercial GEO Satellites Surpass 1,000 Years in Orbit
NEWTOWN, Pa., June 26, 2012 – The Lockheed Martin (NYSE:LMT) commercial geostationary (GEO) communications satellite fleet has achieved a significant milestone by accumulating 1,000 years…
Astrium contracts DLR for major parts of the EDRS ground network
•DLR will implement and operate four EDRS ground stations as well as the control centre for the satellite and payload •Astrium Services advances implementation of…
China’s first manual space docking successful
Three Chinese astronauts Sunday successfully completed a manual docking between the Shenzhou IX spacecraft and the orbiting Tiangong-1 lab module, the first such attempt in…
US Air Force X-37B space vehicle comes in for a landing
18/6/2012 – WASHNGTON (AFNS) — The Air Force’s unmanned, reusable space plane landed in the early morning of June 16 at Vandenberg Air Force Base,…
Boeing Completes 5th GPS IIF Satellite for US Air Force
Spacecraft on standby for launch New capabilities critical to sustaining GPS constellation The Boeing Company has completed the fifth of 12 Global Positioning System (GPS)…
China first manned space docking succeeds
The first manned space docking of China succeeded Monday afternoon with the coupling of the Shenzhou IX spacecraft and Tiangong-1 lab module, the Beijing Aerospace…
Shenzhou-9 launch successful, first Chinese woman in space
Atop an upgraded Long March 2F carrier rocket, blast off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwestern China at 6:37 pm Saturday. A see-off…
China to launch Shenzhou IX spacecraft Saturday
China will launch the Shenzhou IX manned spacecraft at 6:37 pm Saturday and send the country’s first female astronaut into space, a spokeswoman said Friday. …
U.S. secret space plane X-37B may end mission soon
After spending more than a year orbiting Earth on a mystery mission, the U.S. Air Force’s X-37B space plane is due to return to Earth…
NASA NuSTAR Mission Lifts Off
PASADENA, Calif. – NASA’s Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) launched into the morning skies over the central Pacific Ocean at 9 a.m. PDT (noon EDT)…
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