UPDATE: China’s Xinhua news service reported on October 31, 2014 EDT that the return capsule successfully landed. China’s lunar sample return test spacecraft, launched a week ago, is due to return …
Orbital Sciences Corporation said today that telemetry from the Antares rocket that failed on Tuesday night indicates that there were no issues before launch or for the first 15 seconds …
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) talked to many experts and reviewed a host of reports on DOD’s plans for disaggregation of some of its satellite systems. In the end, GAO concluded that …
Orbital Sciences Corporation said today that an initial survey of the Antares launch pad and surrounding areas at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility, VA shows that the damage is not as …
Cargo launches to the International Space Station (ISS) usually are so routine that they barely get mentioned in the news, but the docking of a Russian Progress spacecraft this morning …
This article is updated throughout. Orbital Sciences Corporation’s Antares rocket crashed moments after liftoff at 6:22 pm Eastern Daylight Time (EDT) today, October 28, 2014, from Wallops Island, VA. The rocket …
The weather was perfect, the rocket was perfect, the spacecraft was perfect, but the launch of Orbital Sciences Corporation’s Orb-3 cargo mission to the International Space Station was scrubbed this evening …
Here is our list of space policy related events coming up in the next TWO weeks, October 27-November 7, 2014, and any insight we can offer about them. Congress returns on …
In a wide-ranging “one-on-one” interview today at MIT, Elon Musk easily transitioned from technical to philosophical discussions about rockets, Mars exploration, Tesla cars, and hyperloops. From asking rhetorically whether buying …
Google executive Alan Eustace set a new skydiving altitude record today, beating a record set just two years ago by Felix Baumgartner. Without the capsule or the publicity associated with …