The long dreamed of trip to Mars by American astronauts has been given a timeline with NASA recently announcing that they have finished a thorough review of the planned mission, and everything is going according […]
Tag: Rockets
China Achieves Major Space Milestone By Developing Clean Rocket
Space travel is the latest industry to embrace the green movement, as China has launched a rocket using fuel that is free of both pollution and toxins. The country used the Long March 6, currently […]
SpaceX Will Return To Space With An Upgraded Version Of Its Falcon 9 Rocket
SpaceX, the privately held rocket company owned and by technology guru Elon Musk, plans to return its Falcon 9 rocket to flight in a few months with the launch of an upgraded Falcon 9, sometimes […]
India Joins Elite Club Of Indigenous Rocket Engine Producers With Successful Satellite Launch
India has once again demonstrated it is one of the heavy hitters in the fields of space exploration and communications with the successful launch of the Geo-synchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV) D6 carrying the country’s […]
Rocket Crashing Into Chinese House Underscores How Crowded Space Is Becoming
Residents of a house in Ankang city, located in the Shaanxi province of China, were shocked Thursday morning after a falling rocket motor crashed through their roof. The wreckage fell through the house at approximately […]
Patent Filing Reveals Space Elevator Is Edging Closer To Reality
The world’s dreams of an elevator capable of reaching up into space just got a little bit closer this week after noted Canadian space and defense firm Thoth acquired a U.S. patent for what may […]
NASA Just Successfully Tested The Engine That Will Put Us On Mars
NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS), the first exploration class vehicle in almost 40 years, took a huge step forward Thursday afternoon after NASA successfully test fired the RS-25 rocket engine, which is slated to be the backbone of the […]
Tomorrow NASA Will Test Fire The Engine That Will Bring Astronauts To Mars
In an exciting day for America’s space program, NASA is planning a test firing of an engine that will propel U.S. astronauts farther into space than ever before. The test will take place in Mississippi […]
NASA Unveils Museum Memorial To Challenger And Columbia Astronauts
After being hidden for decades, the remnants of Space Shuttles Challenger and Columbia are now on display in a new exhibit at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The exhibit marks the first time that […]
SpaceX Delays Heavy Rocket Until 2016 In Wake Of Launch Failure
Elon Musk, SpaceX chief, announced that the company will delay the launch of their new rocket that is supposed to be the most powerful in the world. The news came during a briefing given by […]
Commercial Rocket Startup SpaceX Prepares For Third Try At Reusable Rocket
Elon Musk’s rocketry outfit SpaceX is hard at work this week preparing for its third attempt to land its all-original Falcon 9 rocket booster on a barge anchored at sea. The attempt will take place […]
Airbus Unveils Europe’s First Reusable Spacecraft
Airbus, the maker of Europe’s Ariane rocket, has unveiled a partially reusable rocket concept, joining the likes of SpaceX and United Launch Alliance (ULA). Code-named “Adeline”, the system has the booster’s main engines fly themselves […]
Russian Space Program Is A Mess As It Delays Opening New Spaceport Until 2023
Fresh off of losing two rockets in the last sixty days trouble continued for Russia’s ailing space program as it announced on Friday that the first launch of a manned spacecraft from the new Vostochny […]
Virgin Galactic To Start Putting Customers In Space In Just 18 Months
Despite a fatal accident last year, space tourism company Virgin Galactic announced it will be carrying its first paying customers “within 18 months to two years”, according to chief executive George Whitesides. Speaking at the […]
NASA Successfully Test Fires Largest American Rocket Engine Since Landing On The Moon
NASA continues to push the American space program towards its former glory as on Thursday it conducted a successful 450 second test of the new RS-25 rocket engine at Stennis Space Center in Hancock County, […]
SpaceX Now Certified To Launch Military Satellites
After a lengthy dispute between Elon Musk and the U.S. Air Force, SpaceX has finally been certified for military space missions, wedging its way into what had been a tightly held monopoly by a Lockheed […]
SpaceX Has Competition: Blue Origin Successful In First Test
The golden age of rocketry may be upon us. Billionaires who made quick dot-com cash successfully launching commercial rockets is officially a trend, now that Jeff Bezos, of Amazon fame, has followed in the footsteps […]
Latest Tests Show Impossible Sounding Space Engine Quite Possible
A team of NASA scientists have been working hard on a project many have called utterly impossible. Yet there are new signs, that in typical NASA fashion, what some say is possible is actually well […]
Japan To Land Rover On Moon In 2018
Japan’s space agency announced that the country would put an unmanned rover on the surface of the moon by 2018, joining an elite club of countries who have explored Earth’s satellite. The Japan Aerospace Exploration […]