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NASA's Kennedy Space Center crawlerway may have to be rebuilt because the combined weight of the agency's Ares...

Iran's Safir rocket has been successfully launched in preparation for the country's first domestically designed and built satellite, according to the Iranian...

Guidance and control strategies for "anytime return" from the Moon's surface are the focus of work starting this year by the European Space Agency for its...

SpaceX promises to revolutionise the launch market - as soon as it actually gets to orbit

NASA has set 21 August as the first opportunity for Alliant Techsystems (ATK) to launch...

In this exclusive photograph from the Rocket Racing League (RRL), Armadillo Aerospace's liquid oxygen (LOX),...

The European Space Agency is to spend up to €100,000 ($150,300) developing and validating guidance approaches and guidance algorithms for a future European...

NASA has requested propulsion proposals for its $80 million Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer...

NASA has requested propulsion proposals for its $80 million Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer...

A final series of rocket engine test firings that could lead to low-altitude flights are being prepared by Mojave air and spaceport-based Interorbital...

Actively cooled cryogenic thermal shielding and related multi-layer insulation performance is the next stage of NASA Glenn Research Center and Ball Aerospace's...

The European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft started using its Optical, Spectroscopic, and...

NASA's Constellation programme leadership has selected actively 'tuned' mass dampers to solve its Ares I crew launch vehicle's oscillation problem

Space Exploration Technologies' third Falcon 1 rocket flight failed on 2 August when the first-stage...

NASA intended to reuse Space Shuttle systems for its Moon rockets but has the experience shaken its confidence...

NASA expects to sign an agreement to test a new propulsion system on the International Space Station, according to the US space agency's administrator Michael...

Virgin Galactic's WhiteKnightTwo carrier aircraft for its SpaceShipTwo suborbital vehicle was rolled out of one of Scaled Composites' hangars at Mojave air...

Paraffin and asphalt based-solid fuels for the SpaceShipTwo (SS2) rocket motor have been tested by Virgin Galactic's prime contractor Scaled Composites. Speaking...

Assembly of the augmented version of the Indian Space Research Organisation Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle has begun for the expected September launch of...

The Ares I crew launch vehicle first-stage solid rocket motor's 20.7m (68ft)-diameter drogue parachute was successfully drop tested on 24 July at the US Army's Yuma proving ground by NASA and its contractors. Researchers dropped the drogue parachute and its 16,300kg (36,000lb) load that simulated the spent first-stage motor from a US Air Force Boeing C-17 flying at 25,000ft. Part of the reusable first-stage motor's recovery system, the drogue parachute is designed to slow its descent following separation from the Ares I rocket's upper stage at 189,000ft. After separation 126s into the ascent and then free-falling for about 15,700ft, the first-stage's nose cap is jettisoned. The pilot parachute is then released, which in turn releases the drogue, slowing the stage's desce