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…
Spacecraft
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)….
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…
NASA Ends Attempts to Fully Recover Kepler Spacecraft, Potential New Missions Considered
Following months of analysis and testing, the Kepler Space Telescope team is ending its attempts to restore the spacecraft to full working order, and now…
NASA Astronauts Demonstrate Operations in Boeing CST-100 Spacecraft
Commercial Space Transportation vehicle’s interior unveiled ahead of Critical Design Review Two NASA astronauts for the first time evaluated communications, ergonomics and crew-interface aspects of…
Boeing CST-100 Spacecraft Model Passes Water-Recovery Tests
HOUSTON, July 19, 2013 – Boeing [NYSE: BA] recently demonstrated that astronauts in its Crew Space Transportation (CST)-100 capsule will be able to safely exit…
Shenzhou X spacecraft set for launch
China will launch the Shenzhou X spacecraft in the middle of June, a spokesperson for the manned space program was quoted as saying by China…
Russian Soyuz spacecraft docks with space station
MOSCOW, May 29 Russia’s Soyuz TMA-09M spacecraft carrying three astronauts docked with the International Space Station (ISS) on Wednesday, the federal space agency Roscosmos said….
Boeing Selected to Build ViaSat-2 Satellite
ViaSat becomes new Boeing satellite customer Companies to cooperatively sell satellite architecture Boeing [NYSE: BA] has a new satellite customer under a contract to design…
SpaceX Dragon Spacecraft Returns Critical NASA Science to Earth
A Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) Dragon spacecraft successfully completed the company’s second cargo flight to the International Space Station on Tuesday, March 26, with…
Russia Orbits Progress Space Freighter
MOSCOW, February 11 (RIA Novosti) – A Progress M-18M cargo spacecraft was launched from the Baikonur site in Kazakhstan and put into orbit on Monday,…
Lockheed Martin Completes Assembly, Begins Environmental Testing of NASA’s MAVEN Spacecraft
DENVER, Feb. 8, 2013 – Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] has completed the assembly of NASA’s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) spacecraft. The orbiter is…
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