NanoRacks Announces First Customer Contract for India's Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) 19 December 2018 | 11:26 pm NanoRacks is excited to announce that the Company has signed its first customer contract for a small satellite rideshare on the India Space Research Organization's (ISRO) Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV)....

Preparing A Rocket Lab Electron Payload For NASA 19 December 2018 | 12:01 am The Rocket Lab Electron rocket payload fairing is prepared for the encapsulation of the Educational Launch of Nanosatellites 19 (ELaNa 19) payload on Dec. 1, 2018, at the company's facility in New Zealand....

SpaceX Demo-1 Spacecraft and Falcon 9 Being Prepared For Launch 18 December 2018 | 11:55 pm SpaceX's Crew Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket are positioned at the company's hangar at Launch Complex 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, ahead of the Demo-1 flight test targeted for January 17, 2019....

Rocket Lab sLaunches NASA CubeSats On First Venture Class Launch Services Mission 16 December 2018 | 2:56 pm US small satellite launch company Rocket Lab has launched its third orbital mission of 2018, successfully deploying satellites to orbit for NASA....

Static Test Qualifies Crew Safety Launch Abort Motor for Flight in Cold Conditions 14 December 2018 | 12:37 am Northrop Grumman Corporation along with NASA and Lockheed Martin successfully performed a ground firing test of the abort motor for NASA's Orion spacecraft Launch Abort System (LAS) at Northrop Grumman's facility in Promontory, Utah....

Did Virgin Galactic Go To "Space" Today? 13 December 2018 | 3:52 pm Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo reached an altitude of 51.4 miles today after 15 years of struggles to replicate the performance of SpaceShipOne in 2004. AFter some additional tests commercial passengers will reportedly be carried. But did they go to "Space" today?...

CST-100 Starliner Prepared For Transport 29 November 2018 | 11:56 pm On Nov. 12, 2018, inside the Commercial Crew and Cargo Processing Facility (C3PF) at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, technicians and engineers prepare the company's CST-100 Starliner for transport to the company's testing facilities in El Segundo, California....

First LauncherOne Captive Carry Flight By Virgin Orbit 19 November 2018 | 10:26 am This Sunday, a new sight appeared in the baby-blue skies over Southern California: A specially modified 747-400 carrying a 70-foot-long rocket under its wing soared through the air as part of a successful test flight for Virgin Orbit's LauncherOne....

NASA, Northrop Grumman Launch Space Station, National Lab Cargo 17 November 2018 | 1:49 pm Northrop Grumman's Cygnus spacecraft is on its way to the International Space Station with about 7,400 pounds of cargo after launching at 4:01 a.m. EST Saturday from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility on Virginia's Eastern Shore....

NASA Looking to Tiny Technology for Big Payoffs 13 November 2018 | 10:47 pm NASA is advancing technology that could use large amounts of nanoscale materials to launch lighter rockets and spacecraft than ever before....

SpaceX Rehearses Helicopter Landing at Sea 12 November 2018 | 9:01 am When astronauts splash down into the ocean after their journey to the International Space Station on SpaceX's Crew Dragon spacecraft, recovery teams must be able to transport them to land quickly....

Rocket Lab Reaches Orbit Again And Deploys More Satellites 12 November 2018 | 8:34 am Rocket Lab has continued the success of its 2018 orbital launch program with the launch of seven payloads to orbit....

First Mate: Virgin Takes Step Forward with First Mating of LauncherOne Rocket and Cosmic Girl 747 26 October 2018 | 12:26 pm Today at Long Beach Airport stands a 747 aircraft with a rocket under its wing....

Aerojet Rocketdyne Successfully Tests Hypersonic DMRJ Engine 8 October 2018 | 1:41 pm Aerojet Rocketdyne's new dual-mode ramjet/scramjet undergoes testing in the 8-foot high temperature tunnel at NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia...

Blue Origin: "Let's go to the Moon" is key focus at IAC 2018 3 October 2018 | 5:22 pm Moving heavy industry from Earth into space is at the core of Blue Origin's mission. The future will be better for our children - and our children's children - if we use space to benefit life on Earth and enable...