Spacecraft

Space News September 24, 2013

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…

Space News September 18, 2013

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)….

Space News September 13, 2013

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…

Space News August 15, 2013

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…

Space News July 25, 2013

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…

Space News July 19, 2013

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…

Space News June 3, 2013

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…

Space News May 29, 2013

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….

Space News May 17, 2013

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…

Space News March 26, 2013

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…

Space News February 11, 2013

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,…

Space News February 8, 2013

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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