United Launch Alliance Launches Parker Solar Probe 12 August 2018 | 1:18 pm A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Delta IV Heavy rocket carrying NASA's Parker Solar Probe spacecraft lifted off from Space Launch Complex-37 on Aug. 12 at 3:31 a.m. EDT....

Aerojet Rocketdyne Boosters Complete Simulated Air-Launch Tests 6 August 2018 | 8:16 pm Aerojet Rocketdyne's advanced tactical booster program recently completed two successful hot-fire tests of a motor that had been conditioned to mimic extreme cold- and hot-soak conditions for air-launch application....

Virgin Galactic Flies Into the Mesosphere at Mach 2 26 July 2018 | 2:52 pm Virgin Galactic test pilots broke Mach 2 this morning, as VSS Unity took her third rocket-powered supersonic outing in less than four months....

Blue Origin Mission 9 A Total Success 18 July 2018 | 6:46 pm New Shepard flew for the ninth time on July 18, 2018. During this mission, known as Mission 9 (M9), the escape motor was fired shortly after booster separation....

Giant Satellite Fuel Tank Sets New Record for 3-D Printed Space Parts 18 July 2018 | 12:33 pm Lockheed Martin has embraced a 3-D printed titanium dome for satellite fuel tanks so big you can't even put your arms around it....

CST-100's Dual Engine Centaur 11 July 2018 | 10:57 pm The United Launch Alliance (ULA) Orbital Flight Test dual engine Centaur stage of the Atlas V rocket is in the final stage of production and checkout on May 22, 2018, at ULA's factory in Decatur, Alabama....

Aerojet Rocketdyne Demonstrates 24-Hour Turnaround of AR-22 Engine for Experimental Spaceplane Con 10 July 2018 | 12:45 pm Aerojet Rocketdyne successfully fired its AR-22 booster rocket engine an unprecedented 10 times in 240 hours at NASA Stennis Space Center, demonstrating the feasibility of rapidly recycling the engine to enable a reusable launch vehicle capable of high-tempo, aircraft-like flight...

Practicing Starliner Recovery 9 July 2018 | 11:36 pm Boeing, NASA and U.S. Army teams rehearse safely bringing the CST-100 Starliner spacecraft home to Earth on Wed., June 6, 2018, at the U.S. Army's White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico....

Astronauts Test Out Boeing CST-100 Trainer 9 July 2018 | 1:42 pm NASA CCP astronauts Bob Behnken, Eric Boe and Doug Hurley conduct a full-suited exercise in Boeing's CST-100 Starliner mockup trainer at the Johnson Space Center in Houston in early May....

Orion Jettison Motor Ready for Crew Escape System Test 9 July 2018 | 1:40 pm Aerojet Rocketdyne recently passed a key milestone in preparation for the Ascent Abort Test (AA-2) next year with the successful casting of the Jettison Motor for the Lockheed Martin-built Orion spacecraft's Launch Abort System (LAS)....

Trying Out The SpaceX Spacesuit 5 July 2018 | 1:53 pm NASA Astronaut Suni Williams, fully suited in SpaceX's spacesuit...

SpaceX Launches CRS-15 to the International Space Station 29 June 2018 | 9:13 am Experiments investigating cellular biology, Earth science and artificial intelligence are among the research heading to the International Space Station following Friday's launch of a NASA-contracted SpaceX Dragon spacecraft at 5:42 a.m. EDT....

Testing of Re-Generatively Cooled RL10 Thrust Chamber Assembly Validates 3-D Printing Techniques 13 June 2018 | 12:57 pm Aerojet Rocketdyne recently achieved a significant milestone by successfully completing a series of hot-fire tests of an advanced, next-generation RL10 engine thrust chamber design that was built almost entirely using additive manufacturing; commonly known as 3-D printing....

Spaceflight to Launch Smallsats for Canon Electronics, BlackSky, and Others 11 June 2018 | 2:56 pm On Three Upcoming Rocket Lab Missions Spaceflight, the leading satellite rideshare and mission management provider, announced today it has partnered with Rocket Lab for three upcoming launches....

SpaceX Falcon 9 Rocket Launches SES-12 4 June 2018 | 4:05 pm SES announced today that SES-12 was successfully launched onboard a flight-proven SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral in Florida, United States, at 00:45 local time....