The Intermediate Experimental Vehicle splashed down into the sea off Italy after being released from an altitude of 3,000 meters by a helicopter.
Providing the rocket airframe and launch support services to test technology inflight is a growing part of Garvey Spacecraft’s business.
At 15 days in space, this mission is scheduled to be the longest spaceflight for a Chinese crew in the history of the country’s space program.
Peter Marquez has joined asteroid mining startup Planetary Resources as vice president for global engagement.
Landsat 8’s five-year mission is to map changes to Earth’s surface from a polar orbit about 700 kilometers above the planet.
The planet-hunting days of NASA's prolific Kepler space telescope, which has discovered more than 2,700 potential alien worlds to date, may be over.
NASA would consider sending the first crewed Orion mission to rendezvous with a robotic spacecraft in lunar orbit if it cannot redirect an asteroid to the Moon by 2021.
UKube-1 is completing final testing for launch later this year onboard a Russian Soyuz rocket from the Baikonur.
A variety of approaches can have a major impact on cost, schedule and performance.
Raytheon's reorganization includes a new hierarchy for many of its space-related and missile defense products
Kratos will continue to thrive since its products are essential to the Pentagon's core programs.
NASA's Van Allen space probes made the finding.
Orbital Sciences Corp. has finished building and testing the Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM) satellite, which after nearly 15 years of planning and replanning must clear only one more review before being shipped to Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., where it is scheduled to launch Feb. 11.
NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft has discovered a new layer of the solar system that scientists had not known was there.
Confirming decades of suspicion, a NASA spacecraft has spotted vast deposits of water ice on the planet closest to the sun.
The University of Colorado at Boulder’s Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics said that it has delivered a $20 million remote sensing instrument package to Lockheed Martin Space Systems in Denver for integration with a NASA-funded Mars orbiter launching late next year.
A Russian Soyuz space capsule made a rare nighttime landing in the frigid steppes of Kazakhstan Nov. 19, returning three astronauts to Earth after a four-month visit to the international space station.
A robotic Russian cargo spacecraft made a delivery to the international space station.
With the help of satellite instruments and airborne sensors, NASA scientists are continuing to uncover clues to explain the complex role atmospheric aerosols play in global climate change.
SEATTLE — A Soyuz spacecraft carrying two Russian cosmonauts and an American astronaut landed safely Sept. 16, wrapping up a four-month mission to the international space station.