Space

Lockheed Martin Begins Final Assembly on NASA’s Orion Spaceship That Will Take Astronauts Further Than Ever Before

DENVER, August 28, 2018. Technicians have completed construction on the spacecraft capsule structure that will return astronauts to the Moon, and have successfully shipped the capsule to Florida for final assembly into a full...

ISRO to send first Indian into Space by 2022, says MoS Dr Jitendra Singh

  New Delhi. As announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his Independence Day address, India’s first Indian human mission will be launched by Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) by 2022, said Union Minister of...

US Air Force’s First Advanced GPS III Satellite Shipped To Cape Canaveral For Launch

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., August 27, 2018. The first of the US Air Force's advanced new, higher-power, harder-to-jam GPS III satellites is making its way to the launch pad. On August 20, Lockheed Martin shipped...

Airbus-built Aeolus satellite ready to take on the wind

  Stevenage/Kourou, August 9, 2018. Aeolus, the European Space Agency’s wind sensing satellite, has been encapsulated into the Vega launcher at the Guiana Space Centre in Kourou ready for launch on the August 21. Built by...

Boeing Sending Last Shuttle Commander Chris Ferguson Back to Space

HOUSTON. Chris Ferguson, who led the final space shuttle mission, will make his fourth spaceflight when he and NASA astronauts Eric Boe and Nicole Mann take the new Boeing CST-100 Starliner commercial crew spacecraft...

First Science-quality Images Taken Using Onboard Cameras

Dulles, Virginia. Northrop Grumman Corporation announced on August 2, that NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has successfully reached its desired stable orbit and begun science operations. The spacecraft was built and operated by...

Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus Spacecraft Begins Secondary Mission in Space

DULLES, Va. Northrop Grumman Corporation announced on July 15 that its Cygnusâ„¢ spacecraft, following a highly successful stay at the International Space Station, has departed from the station to begin the next phase of...

India Successfully Flight Tests Crew Escape System – Technology Demonstrator

Sriharikota/New Delhi. Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) carried out a major technology demonstration July 5, the first in a series of tests to qualify a Crew Escape System, which is a critical technology relevant...

Cabinet approves Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle Mark-III Continuation Programme – Phase 6

  New Delhi. The Union Cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi has approved the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) Continuation Programme (Phase 6) and funding of thirty PSLV operational flights under the Programme. The Programme...

Govt approves Continuation Programme for GSLV Mark-III

  New Delhi. The Union Cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi has approved funding for the Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle Mark-III (GSLV Mk-III) continuation programme (Phase-I) consisting of 10 GSLV Mk-III flights at a...

Lockheed Martin-Built NASA Insight Lander Officially on its Way to Mars

VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif., May 5, 2018: Lockheed Martin Space continued its Mars heritage when the Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport (InSight) spacecraft launched at 4:05 a.m. PT aboard...
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