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The preparation of Soyuz’ new operating base is continuing in French Guiana, where the ground-based infrastructure continues to take shape on its launch pad and inside the support facilities at Europe’s Spaceport.
Read MoreThe payload "stack" build-up for Ariane 5's second mission of 2009 marked another milestone with the encapsulation of its lower passenger — the Planck space observatory — in the SYLDA dispenser system.
Read MoreSpaceport America and the New Mexico Space Grant Consortium will conduct their first joint annual educational launch from Spaceport America on May 2nd.
Read MoreThe past four weeks have been dedicated to the final Planck spacecraft preparations in the S1B clean room, and is now ready to move to the S5A building for fueling at Europe's Spaceport, the Guiana Space Centre, Kourou.
Read MoreAnother Ariane 5 launch vehicle has been delivered to French Guiana, underscoring Arianespace's ability to support a sustained mission pace with its workhorse heavy-lift launcher.
Read MoreIt's a tough job, but someone's got to do it! And so the ESA and CNES, the French Space Agency, signed a 435 million Euro contract assuring the availability of the CSG launch range for ESA programs and activities and for the exploitation of Ariane, Vega and Soyuz launchers over the period 2009 to 2013 in beautiful Kourou, French Guiana.
Read MoreChina construct a new space launch center in the southernmost Hainan Province in the near future, according to military sources.
Read MoreOfficials from the New Mexico Spaceport Authority (NMSA) have entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Spaceport Sweden to align with Spaceport America as ‘Sister Spaceports’.
Read MoreOn Thursday, January 8, 2009, the Herschel flight model spacecraft was lifted out of the Large Space Simulator (LSS) at ESTEC, where the craft has successfully completed the last series of environmental tests.
Read MoreBirds and planes have experienced a high profile recently, thanks to the exciting, and safe landing in the waters of New York.
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