Space & Astronomy News

10/02/2014 | Space | 363
Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) today announced a design for an integrated system for human spaceflight that can be launched to low Earth orbit (LEO) using...
US, India to collaborate on mars exploration mission 10/01/2014 | Space | 668
In a meeting Tuesday in Toronto, NASA Administrator Charles Bolden and K. Radhakrishnan, chairman of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), signed two documents to...
10/01/2014 | Space | 578
NASA and ATK successfully completed a static test of the launch abort motor igniter for the Orion crew capsule's Launch Abort System (LAS). Conducted at...
09/29/2014 | Space | 434
With EU government budgets under continuous pressure and the costs to procure vital technology for the armed forces rising, the European Union is working together...
Europe's IXV atmospheric reentry demonstrator arrives in Kourou 09/29/2014 | Space | 315
IXV (Intermediate eXperimental Vehicle), the European Space Agency’s atmospheric reentry demonstrator, developed and integrated by Thales Alenia Space as prime contractor, arrived today at the...
09/29/2014 | Space | 564
The European Space Agency’s Rosetta mission will deploy its lander, Philae, to the surface of Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko on 12 November. Philae’s landing site, currently known as...
09/25/2014 | Space | 685
NASA researchers will drop a 45-foot-long helicopter fuselage from a height of about 30 feet for the second time in a year – all in...
09/24/2014 | Space | 375
NASA's oldest aeronautics research laboratory and Virginia's oldest college are working together to launch spinoff technology into the future. NASA Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia,...
09/24/2014 | Space | 580
Today, the Department of National Defence signed a Memorandum of Understanding to conduct space operations with the defence departments of Australia, the United States and...
09/23/2014 | Space | 558
ATK has provided the U.S. Air Force an American-made commercial solid rocket solution as a replacement for the RD-180 Russian-made, first-stage engine of United Launch...
 SpaceX launches dragon cargo ship for NASA 09/22/2014 | Space | 500
About 5,000 pounds of NASA science investigations and cargo are on their way to the International Space Station aboard SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft. The cargo ship...
NASA's Maven spacecraft successfully enters orbit around Mars 09/22/2014 | Space | 657
NASA’s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) spacecraft successfully entered Mars’ orbit at 10:24 p.m. EDT Sunday, Sept. 21, where it now will prepare to...
Boeing CST-100 Selected as Next American Spacecraft 09/17/2014 | Space | 431
Boeing will receive an award of $4.2 billion from NASA to build and fly the United States’ next passenger spacecraft. Boeing’s Crew Space Transportation (CST)-100 is...
09/10/2014 | Space | 379
Boeing has received its first commercial order for the 502 Phoenix small satellite from HySpecIQ of Washington, D.C. The satellites will carry the commercial remote...
09/10/2014 | Space | 325
Boeing today announced it has signed an agreement with GA Telesis, LLC to expand Boeing’s aftermarket parts portfolio to include serviceable commercial airplane parts. Boeing...
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