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Engineers at NASA's John C. Stennis Space Center are wrapping up the first series of tests on core components for the J-2X engine that will power the upper stage of the Ares I crew launch vehicle and the Ares V cargo launch vehicle.
Read MoreNASA's Space Shuttle Program on Thursday successfully conducted a test firing of a space shuttle reusable solid rocket motor in Utah.
Read MoreThe Russian State Commission investigating the AMC-14 failure of a Proton Breeze M launch has traced the cause to the rupture of the gas duct between the gas generator and the propellant pump turbine in the Breeze M main engine.
Read MoreSpace Exploration Technologies Corp. conducted the first three-engine firing of its Falcon 9 medium to heavy lift rocket at its Texas Test Facility outside McGregor, on March 8, 2008.
Read MoreNASA and United Space Alliance engineers and technicians working at NASA's Kennedy Space Center tested procedures they will rely on to handle and load the propellant tanks that will be used on the roll control system of the Ares I.
Read MoreSpace Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) has completed the qualification testing program of its Merlin 1C next gen liquid fueled rocket booster engine for use in the Falcon 1 rocket.
Read MoreBeing developed at the Khrunichev Space Center is the Angara launch vehicle family. These will be environmentally clean vehicles.
Read MoreThe ascent engine is a critical propulsion system on the Lunar Lander. Its operation is required to return the astronauts from the lunar surface to rendezvous with the orbiting Crew Exploration Vehicle (CEV).
Read MoreTested at the Guiana Space Center, Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, was the P80 rocket motor. This motor will power the first stage of the European Space Agency's (ESA) Vega small launcher.
Read MoreKawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd. announced it has shipped a payload fairing for the H-IIA No.14 (H-IIA F14) launch vehicle to the Tanegashima Space Center.
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