Space Industry Analysis
Dec 18, 2014
Company opts to conduct second Falcon 9 static fire test before launch.
Dec 13, 2014
Dubbed Project Loon, the fleet of balloons would be carried by winds some 18 to 20 km above the Earth – higher than commercial airlines and weather – and powered by solar panels.
Dec 11, 2014
"We knew that Rosetta's in situ analysis of the comet was always going to throw up surprises...," said Matt Taylor, ESA's Rosetta project scientist.
Dec 09, 2014
Orbital says a re-engined Antares rocket will conduct flights to the ISS for NASA from the company's Wallops Island launch site on Virginia's eastern shore in early 2016
Dec 08, 2014
Khrunichev says the heavy-lifter has been undergoing pad tests at Plesetsk Cosmodrome since mid-November
Dec 05, 2014
"Every system on the spacecraft functioned by the book -- from start to finish," NASA's Rob Navias reported from Mission Control
Dec 05, 2014
"It was just magnificent, a dawn launch," said NASA astronaut Rex Walheim, who flew aboard NASA's final space shuttle mission, STS-135, in July 2011. "I'd love to fly on Orion."