Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft is progressing through a series of parachute drop tests, refining the technology for returning the spacecraft back home safely. However, NASA’s safety advisory body has cited certification concerns about a major element for the spacecraft’s ride to space, specifically the RD-180 engine used by the Atlas V launch vehicle.
The U.S. Congress is debating the reinstatement of a purchasing ban on Russian RD-180 engines –…
ATK has provided additional details about its domestic alternative to the Russian-built RD-180 engine currently…
India launched a new ocean monitoring satellite on Saturday morning, using its PSLV rocket to…
The Eutelsat Hotbird-13F geostationary communications satellite launched atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 out of Cape…
The International Space Station (ISS) and its astronauts had a busy March as teams performed…
Russia has launched its third and final demonstration flight of the Angara A5 rocket on…
United Launch Alliance has launched NASA’s most powerful Earth-imaging satellite, Landsat 9, on an Atlas…
United Launch Alliance’s (ULA’s) Delta IV Heavy rocket has received its clandestine payload for the…
Just over two months after the truncated Orbital Flight Test of their Starliner crew capsule,…
NASA will need another set of Orion and Space Launch System (SLS) vehicle hardware for…
During Tuesday’s NASA Advisory Council (NAC) meeting, Commercial Crew Program manager Kathy Lueders briefed the…
Rocket Lab launched their Electron rocket for its second launch of 2019. In its sixth…
The first integrated Orion and Space Launch System (SLS) vehicle that will launch Exploration Mission-1…
A ground test RS-25 engine has conducted another test firing Thursday afternoon while held in…
A traffic jam of NASA Space Launch System (SLS) Core Stage hardware that needs to…
As the next series of RS-25 engine test firings at the Stennis Space Center in…
Japan conducted the launch of a miniature satellite via a modified SS-520 sounding rocket Saturday,…
Blue Origin returned to its impressive New Shepard test flight program with a new phase…
Blue Origin has conducted the fifth flight of the same reusable straight up/straight down suborbital…
