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Dec 15, 2014
NASA’s New Horizons Pluto probe is awake and getting ready to fly past the Solar System’s icy outlier and its moons next summer
Dec 15, 2014
Delays in current launcher development are not deterring Chinese space industry managers from planning a Moon rocket. They aim to put a rover on Mars around 2020, too.
Dec 15, 2014
After years of debate, ESA approves plan for new family of Ariane 6 rockets to keep Europe competitive in launch market.
Dec 15, 2014
Data from the Orion flight test—recorded at much higher rates than the normal 1-Hz used operationally so engineers can pinpoint the changes in loads and other factors during the flight—will be used to validate models and improve designs.
Dec 15, 2014
Modular satellite assembled from multiple identical cells will rideshare into orbit in 2015.
Dec 11, 2014
"We knew that Rosetta's in situ analysis of the comet was always going to throw up surprises...," said Matt Taylor, ESA's Rosetta project scientist.
Dec 09, 2014
Orbital says a re-engined Antares rocket will conduct flights to the ISS for NASA from the company's Wallops Island launch site on Virginia's eastern shore in early 2016
Dec 08, 2014
Khrunichev says the heavy-lifter has been undergoing pad tests at Plesetsk Cosmodrome since mid-November