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Green Satellite Fuel Designed To Make Space Safer Paris, France (ESA) Mar 17, 2010 
On the day running up to launch when a spacecraft is fuelled, ground personnel look more like astronauts than engineers, putting on spacesuit-like protective gear.
This is an essential precaution when dealing with the current hydrazine fuel, but a new development could make satellite fuelling no more dangerous than filling up a car.
First used in rocket engines by the German Luftwaff ... read moreAerojet And Orbital Complete Taurus II Tests 
Sacramento CA (SPX) Mar 16, 2010Aerojet and Orbital Sciences, along with Aerojet's Russian partner, SNTK, have announced that a series of NK-33 rocket engine tests conducted in Samara, Russia were successfully completed in support of the development of Orbital's Taurus II space launch vehicle. The purpose of the extended-time testing of the NK-33 engine, on which the AJ26 first-stage engine for the Taurus II rocket is ba ... more
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Vietnam says parched Red River at record low
China to be world's third biggest wind power producer: media Cost-cutting NASA eyes three cheap space missions Honduras declares state of emergency amid drought Russia in secret plan to save Earth from asteroid: official Sarkozy scrambles to salvage carbon tax French carbon tax ruled illegal Brazil's Lula signs law cutting CO2 emissions 2009 a 'benign' year of natural disasters: German re-insurer Greenpeace Spain demands Denmark release its director 
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SpaceX Static Fire Update
Hawthorne CA (SPX) Mar 11, 2010SpaceX has performed our first Static Fire for the Falcon 9 launch vehicle. We counted down to an T-2 seconds and aborted on Spin Start. Given that this was our first abort event on this pad, we decided to scrub for the day to get a good look at the rocket before trying again. Everything looks great at first glance. We completed pad preps on time and with good execution. The integrated cou ... more Iran unveils missiles, launch pad spotted 
Tehran (UPI) Mar 8, 2009 As the United States and other powers mull tightening economic sanctions on Iran, Tehran says it has begin mass production of cruise missiles - just the thing to block the strategic Strait of Hormuz. Meantime, Iran's Fars news agency reports that the air force is taking delivery of a precision-guided bomb, identified as the 2,000-pound Qassed-1, Farsi for Herald, and that a new variant ... more ISRO Fires Up L110 Liquid Core Stage Of GSLV- MK3 Launcher 
Mahendragiri, India (SPX) Mar 08, 2010Indian Space Research Organisation conducted the static test of its liquid core stage (L110) of GSLV Mk III launch vehicle, for 150 seconds at its Liquid Propulsion Systems Centre (LPSC) test facility at Mahendragiri at 16:00 hrs yesterday (March 5, 2010). While the test was originally targeted for 200 seconds it was stopped at 150 seconds since a deviation in one of the parameters was obs ... more X-51 Getting Ready For First Flight 
Edwards AFB CA (SPX) Mar 08, 2010There's some pretty exciting stuff going on at Edwards Air Force Base as the flight test center team gets ready to conduct an awe-inspiring X-51 first flight. The plan is to air launch the X-51A WaveRider using an expendable solid rocket booster from under the wing of a B-52, this spring. Lt. Col. Todd Venema, director of the Hypersonic Combined Test Force explained just how the test team ... more |
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NASA to host rocket-science workshop
Washington (UPI) Feb 24, 2009 NASA officials say they're inviting U.S. university faculty and students to a rocket-science workshop to learn how to build and launch scientific experiments. The space agency's Wallops Island, Va., facility will host the workshop, called RockOn! It will be held June 19-24 in partnership with the Colorado and Virginia Space Grant Consortia. "The hands-on workshop teaches particip ... more Spaceport runway to be completed this year
Upham, N.M. (UPI) Feb 19, 2009 A thick layer of concrete is being poured atop a state-of-the art runway as crews work to complete Spaceport America, New Mexican officials said. The 10,000-foot-long runway in Upham, N.M., was designed to allow landing by nearly any kind of aircraft and to support space tourism and payload launch operations, Spaceport America Executive Director Steve Landeene said. The 200-foot- ... more Falcon 9 Ready For Final Assembly At Cape 
Cape Canaveral FL (SPX) Feb 11, 2010SpaceX reportsthat all the flight hardware for the first launch of the Falcon 9 vehicle is now at the SpaceX launch site, Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40), in Cape Canaveral, Florida. Final delivery included the Falcon 9 second stage, which recently completed testing at the SpaceX test facility in McGregor, Texas. SpaceX has now initiated full vehicle integration of the 47 meter (154 ... more Space Access Capability Boosted By Wind Tunnel Test Success 
Wright-Patterson AFB OH (AFNS) Feb 10, 2010With help from Air Force Research Laboratory, the Air Force is pursuing a Reusable Booster System concept as the potential next step towards a low-cost space access capability. Whereas current booster systems are entirely expendable and require long lead times prior to launch, an RBS equipped with boostback capability--such as the one recently tested in Arnold Engineering Development Cente ... more |
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