The European Space Agency expects to achieve significant progress with its most important...

Alliant Techsystems has released information about its proposed Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) demonstration programme launcher for space services company PlanetSpace's bid, after PlanetSpace was selected as a finalist by NASA

The European Space Agency expects to achieve significant progress with its most important...

Lockheed Martin has selected Alliant Techsystems (ATK) to develop the Orion...

NASA is developing a lunar positioning system satellite constellation that would enable its Altair...

Preparations for testing the final configuration of Europe's Galileo navigation satellites have been boosted by the European Space Agency's announcement...

The London based-British Interplanetary Society has proposed a UK built International Space Station habitation module that it estimates would cost £225 million...

A personal spaceflight safety study aimed at helping to form legislation for sub-orbital tourist flights has begun in the USA. The US Congress-mandated...

The target launch date is 22 February for the European Space Agency's Automated Transfer Vehicle cargo spacecraft...

Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) president Keiji Tachikawa has outlined his agency's goals for 2008, referring to...

The European Space Agency is negotiating to increase its astronaut time on the International Space Station once its crew complement is increased from three...

MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates (MDA) is to sell its space business - manufacturer of Canada's Earth-observation Radarsat and Canadarm robotic arm, to US firm Alliant Techsystems (ATK). Minneapolis-based ATK has agreed to buy Vancouver-based MDA's information systems and geospatial services businesses, including the satellite and robotics activities, for $1.33 billion in cash. The acquisition, with requires Canadian and US government approval, will "establish ATK as a full-spectrum international space company, providing launch services, next-generation satellites, robotics and ground systems", the US company says. MDA is a leader in sythentic-aperture radar Earth-observation satellites, and built Canada's Radarsat-2 satellite, which was launched on

India and Russia may collaborate to develop a reusable manned spacecraft - if talks expected to start early this year bear fruit. Anatoly Perminov,...

The Apollo programme-derived Pratt & Whitney...

Florida's weather has lured everybody from Walt Disney to exiles from northern winters. Tourists flock to Orlando and coastal resorts. But with 1,700 businesses...

space Beyond the Shuttle Once the gateway to the Moon, Florida's role as a spaceport is changing - but NASA and its support industry are still...

NASA has been given $49 million more than it requested for the development of its Constellation programme's Ares...

The first two manned Orion crew exploration vehicle flights to the International Space Station, scheduled from September 2015, will deliver a new NASA-developed...

Leaders of NASA's Constellation return-to-the-Moon programme are describing 2008 as the year of the preliminary design review (PDR) for the Orion crew exploration...

A self-transpiring technology for hypersonic or reusable space vehicles using a solid material that becomes gaseous and flows through the porous outer surface...