X MARKS THE SPOT: FALCON 9 ATTEMPTS OCEAN PLATFORM LANDING
During the next flight, SpaceX will attempt the precision landing of a Falcon 9 first stage for the first time, on a custom-built ocean platform known…
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Orion Spacecraft Finishes USA Cross Country Road Trip
Engineering Teams Will Begin Disassembly and Analysis KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla., Dec. 19, 2014 – The Lockheed Martin [NYSE:LMT]-built Orion spacecraft has just completed its…
Boeing CST-100 Spacecraft Moves Another Step Closer to Flight
Boeing and NASA recently completed the Ground Segment Critical Design Review and set the baseline design for the company’s Commercial Crew Transportation System, moving a…
ATV views Space Station as never before
ESA’s fifth and last Automated Transfer Vehicle tested a new technique before docking with the International Space Station in August, at the same time revealing…
NASA’s Curiosity Rover Finds Clues to How Water Helped Shape Martian Landscape
This illustration depicts a lake of water partially filling Mars’ Gale Crater, receiving runoff from snow melting on the crater’s northern rim. — Observations by…
Orion Spacecraft in Orbit
NASA’s new Orion spacecraft lifted off from Florida’s Cape Canaveral and rocketed to orbit Friday morning — the first test flight for a program that…
NASA’s Orion launch scrubbed, rescheduled for Friday
Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., Dec. 4, 2014 – The launch of the United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy rocket carrying NASA’s Orion spacecraft…
Boeing’s Spectrolab Manufactures Record 4 Millionth Space Solar Cell
Subsidiary is highest volume producer of spacecraft-powering solar cells SYLMAR, Calif., Dec. 2, 2014 – Boeing [NYSE: BA] subsidiary Spectrolab is the first company to…
Boeing Completes First Milestone for NASA’s Commercial Crew Transportation Systems
NASA has approved the completion of Boeing’s first milestone in the company’s path toward launching crews to the International Space Station from the United States…
ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti arrives at Space Station
The Soyuz spacecraft launched from Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan last night safely docked with the International Space Station this morning, delivering ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti…
NASA’s SMAP Satellite To Use Northrop Grumman’s AstroMesh(R) Reflector to Collect Data on Climate and Weather Fluctuations
CARPINTERIA, Calif. – Nov. 21, 2014 – Intended to effortlessly spin on-orbit at nearly 15 revolutions per minute collecting data, Northrop Grumman’s (NYSE: NOC) lightweight…
Russia to Start Deploying Own Space Station in 2017
New Russian orbital space station will be deployed in 2017; earlier this year, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin announced that Moscow was not planning…
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