NASA’s Kepler Kraft Kontainerized For Trip To The Cape
Engineers are preparing to pack NASA's Kepler spacecraft into a container and ship it off to its launch site at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida.
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XCOR’s Lynx Engine Fired Up
XCOR Aerospace, Inc. has successfully completed its first test fire of the rocket engine that will be used to power its Lynx suborbital launch vehicle to the edge of space.
Read MoreTaurus II Testing Tagged For Stennis Space Center
NASA's John C. Stennis Space Center will provide propulsion system acceptance testing for the Taurus II space launch vehicle, which Orbital Sciences Corporation of Dulles, Virginia, is developing.
Read MoreSuccess Continues to Rocket For Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne
Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne has completed more than 1,600 successful booster missions with its rocket engines. That's the highest number of launches ever achieved by a U.S. company.
Read MoreComposite Component Constructions Crafting By AASC For Taurus II
Applied Aerospace Structures Corporation (AASC) has been awarded a contract by Orbital Sciences Corporation to manufacture the composite structures for the Taurus II Launch Vehicle.
Read MoreHOT BIRD-9 Gets Top Berth Position
The upper payload component for Arianespace's upcoming dual-satellite Ariane 5 mission is now complete at Europe's Spaceport, following the encapsulation of HOT BIRDT-9 inside the launcher's payload fairing.
Read MoreYou Can Ciel that It’s a Breeze (and a First) For Canadian TV
Today it was a successful launch out of the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, where an International Launch Services Proton rocket with a Breeze M upper stage deployed the Canadian Ciel 2 telecommunications spacecraft to serve North America. The Proton M/Breeze M launched the first Ciel-2 satellite for the Ciel Satellite Group, Canada's newest satellite operator from Baikonur.
Read MoreAerojet Successfully Demos Push To The Max
Aerojet, a GenCorp (NYSE: GY) company, announced the Company's 150-lbf thrust high performance storable bipropellant engine demonstrated a specific impulse of 333.5 seconds at its Redmond, Wash. facility.
Read MoreDraco Is All Fired Up For Dragon
Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) has marked another significant advance with the performance of its smallest rocket engine, Draco.
Read MoreHOT BIRD-9 Now Atop Ariane 5 SatDispenser
The first satellite for Arianespace's year-ending mission of 2008 began its final integration phase on December 9th, with HOT BIRD-9 installed atop the launch vehicle's dual-payload dispenser at the Spaceport in French Guiana.
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