Arianegroup tests innovative technology for next generati...
Lampoldshausen, Germany (SPX) Jun 20, 2018 A full-scale demonstrator of the thrust chamber for an upper-stage rocket engine incorporating the newest propulsi...

Astronaut Sally Ride's legacy of encouraging young women ...
College Station TX (SPX) Jun 20, 2018 On June 18, 1983, 35 years ago, Sally Ride became the first American woman to launch into space, riding the Space Shutt...

Russia to deliver US new rocket engines
Moscow (Sputnik) Jun 20, 2018 The US government is slated to receive one of two batches of Russian-made rocket engines in the second quarter of 2018, accordi...

Space tourism not far off, rocket maker says
Beijing (XNA) Jun 20, 2018 The China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology is known as a prestigious developer of carrier rockets, but in the near future, it ...

ESA celebrates Unispace+50
Vienna, Austria (ESA) Jun 19, 2018 Next week, ESA will join the international community at UNISPACE+50 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the first United ...

S7 space mulls restoring production of heavy rocket engin...
Moscow (Sputnik) Jun 20, 2018 Russia's S7 Space, part of the S7 Group, plans to build a plant in Samara to produce Soviet-designed NK-33 and NK-43 rocket eng...

Space Station Roulette
Bethesda MD (SPX) Jun 19, 2018 Space station astronauts have to be "high-risk-taking" individuals. They volunteer to fly from the Earth to the International ...

NASA Administrator Statement on Space Policy Directive-3
Washington DC (SPX) Jun 19, 2018 The following is a statement from NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine on Monday's signing of Space Policy Directive-3 by Pres...

China's Beidou system helps livestock water supply in rem...
Hohhot, China (XNA) Jun 19, 2018 A water supply system for livestock in remote pastoral areas has been trialled in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Re...

Russia launches Soyuz-21b with Glonass-M navigation satel...
Moscow (Sputnik) Jun 19, 2018 Russia launched a Soyuz-2.1b carrier rocket from the Plesetsk space center on Sunday to orbit a Glonass-M satellite, the Russia...

Wireless system can power devices inside the body
Boston MA (SPX) Jun 12, 2018 MIT researchers, working with scientists from Brigham and Women's Hospital, have developed a new way to power and communicate wi...

China Working Toward Next-Gen Quantum Radar to Track Ball...
Beijing (Sputnik) Jun 18, 2018 The state-owned Chinese company responsible for developing high-end electronics has claimed that the next version of its quant...

Peggy Whitson, NASA's most experienced astronaut, retires
Washington (UPI) Jun 15, 2018 After nearly four decades with NASA, including 22 years as an astronaut, Peggy Whitson is leaving the space agency. Her retirem...

Pentagon contracts for guided-missile launchers, components
Washington (UPI) Jun 18, 2018 Marvin Engineering has been awarded a contract for more than 1,000 guided-missile launchers and components for U.S. military fi...

Chip upgrade helps miniature drones navigate
Boston MA (SPX) Jun 20, 2018 Researchers at MIT, who last year designed a tiny computer chip tailored to help honeybee-sized drones navigate, have now shrunk...

Unique microbe could thrive on Mars, help future manned m...
Washington (UPI) Jun 18, 2018 New research suggests certain cyanobacteria could thrive on Mars. The microbes could even be used to provide future space colon...

Explosive volcanoes spawned mysterious Martian rock forma...
Washington DC (SPX) Jun 19, 2018 Explosive volcanic eruptions that shot jets of hot ash, rock and gas skyward are the likely source of a mysterious Martian r...

Study could help humans colonise Mars and hunt for alien ...
Canberra, Australia (SPX) Jun 18, 2018 Scientists at The Australian National University (ANU) have contributed to an international study that will potentiall...

NASA spacecraft studying massive Martian dust storm
Washington (UPI) Jun 14, 2018 A record dust storm has been swirling on Mars for nearly two weeks. While the weather has forced the Opportunity rover to bunke...

Opportunity rover sends transmission amid Martian dust storm
Washington (UPI) Jun 11, 2018 NASA's Opportunity rover is currently hunkered down, waiting out a severe dust storm on Mars. On Sunday, the rover sent a trans...

NASA encounters the perfect storm for science on Mars
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 14, 2018 One of the thickest dust storms ever observed on Mars has been spreading for the past week and a half. The storm has caused NA...

Martian dust storm silences NASA's rover, Opportunity
Tampa (AFP) June 13, 2018 A massive dust storm raging across Mars has overcome NASA's aging Opportunity rover, putting the unmanned, solar-powered vehicle in...

Opportunity hunkers down during dust storm
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 13, 2018 NASA engineers attempted to contact the Opportunity rover today but did not hear back from the nearly 15-year old rover. The t...

Regional dust storm is affecting Opportunity Mars rover
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 13, 2018 Opportunity is halfway down in "Perseverance Valley" on the west rim of Endeavour Crater. A nearby, regional dust storm is aff...

Mars rover Opportunity hunkers down during dust storm
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 11, 2018 Science operations for NASA's Opportunity rover have been temporarily suspended as it waits out a growing dust storm on Mars. ...

New NASA position to focus on exploration of Moon, Mars a...
Washington DC (SPX) Jun 13, 2018 NASA's Science Mission Directorate (SMD) is taking a giant leap focusing the agency's exploration of the Moon, Mars and our ...

Curiosity rover finds organic matter, unidentified methan...
Washington (UPI) Jun 7, 2018 NASA's Curiosity rover has found organic molecules in ancient sedimentary rock collected from Mars' surface. The rover's labs al...

More building blocks of life found on Mars
Tampa (AFP) June 7, 2018 A NASA robot has detected more building blocks for life on Mars - the most complex organic matter yet - from 3.5 billion-year-old ro...

Minerology on Mars points to a cold and icy ancient climate
West Lafayette IN (SPX) Jun 08, 2018 The climate throughout Mars' early history has long been debated - was the Red Planet warm and wet, or cold and icy? New...

NASA finds ancient organic material, mysterious methane o...
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 08, 2018 NASA's Curiosity rover has found new evidence preserved in rocks on Mars that suggests the planet could have supported ancient...

Over 60% of commercial aircraft to be connected by 2027
Montreal, Canada (SPX) Jun 20, 2018 According to Euroconsult's newly release report, Prospects for In-Flight Entertainment and Connectivity, over 23,000 comm...

Sentinel-3 flies tandem
Paris (ESA) Jun 20, 2018 The key to monitoring Earth's changing environment and to guaranteeing a consistent stream of satellite data to improve our daily li...

A dark and stormy Jupiter
Washington DC (SPX) Jun 20, 2018 This image captures the intensity of the jets and vortices in Jupiter's North North Temperate Belt. NASA's Juno spacecraft t...

Mysterious IceCube event may be caused by a tau neutrino
Mainz, Germany (SPX) Jun 20, 2018 It was just eight years ago that the IceCube detector, a research center located at the South Pole to detect neutrinos eman...

Astronomers see distant eruption as black hole destroys star
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 18, 2018 For the first time, astronomers have directly imaged the formation and expansion of a fast-moving jet of material ejected when...

NASA awards the short wave infra-red sensor chip assembly...
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jun 20, 2018 NASA has awarded a contract to Teledyne Scientific and Imaging, LLC, Camarillo, California, for the Short Wave Infra-Red Sens...

Exploring planetary plasma environments from your laptop
Paris (ESA) Jun 19, 2018 A new database of plasma simulations, combined with observational data and powerful visualisation tools, is providing planetary scie...

Proof of dark matter in dwarf galaxies is refuted
Paris, France (SPX) Jun 20, 2018 Astronomers from Observatoire de Paris/PSL, Laboratory Galaxies, Etoiles, Physique et Instrumentation/GEPI (Observatoire de ...

Research shows short gamma-ray bursts do follow binary ne...
Corvallis OR (SPX) Jun 20, 2018 Researchers at Oregon State University have confirmed that last fall's union of two neutron stars did in fact cause a short g...

NASA Space Station On-Orbit Status 18 June 2018
Today - Gravitational References for Sensitomotor Performance (GRASP): The crew reconfigured the GRASP equipment from the seated configuration to the quasi-f...

NASA Space Station On-Orbit Status 15 June 2018 - Post EV...
Today - Post Extravehicular Activity (EVA) Activities: Following yesterday's successful US EVA #51 Node 2 (N2) Forward External Wireless Communications (EWC)...

NASA Space Station On-Orbit Status 14 June 2018 - Spacewa...
Expedition 56 Commander Drew Feustel and Flight Engineer Ricky Arnold of NASA completed the sixth spacewalk at the International Space Station this year at 2...

Looking For User Advisory Committee: The Next Generation
Keith's note: This is the question I asked at the User Advisory Council meeting today. "I have a question about the actual composition of the User's Advisory...

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