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NASA's Space Shuttle Endeavour is en route to the International Space Station for its resupply mission, STS-126, after lifting off from Kennedy Space Center...

Industry will have from 1 December until early January to bid for a NASA electric Thrust Vector Control (TVC) technical feasibility contract for the US space...

NASA is likely to start discussions with India and China next year about a common docking system that the US Congress has directed the space agency to investigate. The...

NASA has set 20 November as the date for its initial full-scale firing of the ATK-built launch abort motor for the Orion crew exploration vehicle, the first such test since a similar system was tested for the Apollo crew capsule in the 1960s. ATK says the firing is the “culmination of a series of motor and component tests that were conducted earlier this year in preparation for the Pad Abort-1 flight test scheduled for spring 2009.” © ATK ATK is supplying the motor to Orbital Sciences Corp, which is responsible for integrating the launch abort system (LAS) motor for Lockheed Martin, the prime contractor for Orion. Flames from the 5.2

Development of personal spaceflight safety oversight should be part of a United Nations process separate from existing international aviation organisations,...

The maiden flight of NASA's Ares I crew launch vehicle and its Orion crew exploration vehicle could be delayed until after September 2017, along...

NASA's Space Shuttle Endeavour is expected to be launched...

The international joint venture Land Launch is preparing for its second flight...

An astronaut training centre larger than 40.5Ha (100 acres), on the outskirts of Bangalore, is to be completed by 2012 in preparation for India's proposed...

India's first dedicated astronomy research satellite, Astrosat , designed to observe the universe using...

As part of its 50th anniversary celebrations, NASA has chronicled the final flight of agency's legendary X-15 rocket-plane, a vehicle that flew to the edge of space at speeds greater than M5.0 and altitudes above 91km (300,000ft). Written by NASA Dryden Flight Research Center historian Peter Merlin, (see below) the story describes the 199th flight of the X-15 on 24 October 1968, the final flight for test pilot William Dana, and slated to be the second to last sortie for the programme. Flight number 200 was later cancelled however, leaving Dana with the grand finale honours. © NASA NASA research pilot Bill Dana, who f

Independent from Europe's heavyweights, BAE Systems and EADS, Finmeccanica continues to dominate Italian aerospace. Subsidiary Alenia...

Could suborbital flight be a substitute for intercontinental supersonic transport?

Italy is a prime mover in European space programmes, but its national ambitions could be affected by ESA budget needs

A senior space industrialist, author, telecommunications journal editor and adviser to the Italian government's technical council of its research ministry and commission for co-ordination and orientation of the national aerospace plan, Enrico Saggesse was appointed commissioner of the Italian space agency ASI on 1 August, a position that is to last for one year. Born in Potenza, he is an electronic engineer with a postgraduate diploma who until this year was Finmeccanica's senior vice-president for space activities co-ordination. Previously he was Telespazio's chief executive, where he had worked since 1976. He was the European Satellite Operators Association chairman and has lectured on telecommunications in India on behalf of the International Telecommunication Union. Saggesse is also a member of the International Astronautical Federation's space system and communications committee.

A commercial human spaceflight safety report for Congress has recommended that new legislation should be passed to put the US government's National...

NASA has confirmed it will be unable to launch the Hubble Space Telescope fourth and final servicing mission until...

Accelerating the Constellation programme is the focus of a NASA study that is expected to report its findings in early December...

The cost estimates for the joint European Space Agency, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) double-spacecraft BepiColombo...

Texas based-rocket developer Armadillo Aerospace has won the $350,000 Northrop...