U.S. private spacecraft company SpaceX launches upgraded Falcon rocket
U.S. private spacecraft company SpaceX launched its first new version Falcon 9 rockets from California, an ambitious test flight that also marked the company’s first…
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Success of the 1,810th launch of Soyuz
The 1,810th flight of a Soyuz launch vehicle was performed on Thursday, 26 September 2013 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 00:58 Moscow time…
Manufacturing Rockets and Spacecraft in the 21st Century
As the only operational vehicle capable of taking significant amounts of cargo both to and from the International Space Station, SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft is already…
Soyuz Launch Causes New Delay to US Cargo Ship Docking with Space Station
WASHINGTON, September 23 (RIA Novosti) – For the second time in 24 hours, NASA and private commercial US rocket company Orbital Sciences on Monday pushed…
Private Cygnus cargo ship delays rendezvous with ISS
WASHINGTON, Sept. 22 U.S. space company Orbital Sciences Corp. said Sunday that the rendezvous of its Cygnus cargo ship with the International Space Station (ISS)…
Software update keeps B-52 at forefront of bomber fleet
BARKSDALE AIR FORCE BASE, La. (AFNS) — The B-52 Stratofortress will soon receive a software upgrade that will keep the aircraft at the forefront…
Boeing Sends Protected Government Signal through Commercial Satellite
Boeing has transmitted a government-developed, frequency-hopping signal through a commercial satellite, demonstrating the potential for the military to access more communications pathways at a lower…
Arianespace and Astrium sign an agreement to begin production of 18 additional Ariane 5 ECA launchers
Arianespace and Astrium signed an initial agreement on 17 September to begin the production of 18 additional Ariane 5 ECA launchers. As part of this…
New U.S. private spacecraft launched to ISS
A new privately owned U.S. spaceship carrying food, clothing and other cargo blasted off Wednesday on a demonstration mission to the International Space Station (ISS)….
1st Boeing-built Inmarsat-5 Satellite on Track for 2013 Launch
High-data-rate communications satellite passes key environmental test The first of three Inmarsat-5 Global Xpress (GX) satellites being built by Boeing has successfully completed a key…
Next Boeing GPS IIF Satellite Arrives at Cape Canaveral for Launch
Boeing workers lift the Global Positioning System (GPS) IIF-5 satellite onto a transporter following its Aug. 1 arrival at the Navstar Processing Facility on Cape…
Voyager 1 becomes first man-made object to leave solar system
U.S. space agency NASA said Thursday that its Voyager 1 spacecraft has become the first human- made object to venture into interstellar space. New and…
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