NASA today successfully tested the agency’s next-generation spacecraft and launch vehicle system, called Ares I-X. The flight test provided NASA with an early opportunity to test and prove flight characteristics, hardware, facilities and ground operations associated with the Ares I.
Read More »Canadarm2 Successfully Captures Japanese H-II Transfer Vehicle
American flight engineer Nicole Stott using Canada’s Canadarm2 on the International Space Station today captured the Japanese H-II Transfer Vehicle (HTV). The Japanese HTV is an unmanned spacecraft used to resupply the Kib Japanese Experiment Module and the rest of the International Space Station (ISS).
Read More »Rover Technologies Outlined in Canadian Space Agency Contracts
A lunar or Martian rover appears to be among the priorities that will eventually be outlined in Canada’s Long-Term Space Plan, a planning tool the Canadian Space Agency says it has been working to complete during the past year. That information emerged from a series of CSA tenders – collectively worth at least $9.75 million – issued these past few weeks on Merx, a Canadian …
Read More »Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge Prize Winner Guaranteed
This past weekend Armadillo Aerospace assured itself a share of the level two Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge (NGLLC) Prize money by successfully doing two 180-second rocket powered flights within two hour and fifteen minute time period, as well as using a simulated lunar surface as a landing pad.
Read More »NASA and ATK Successfully Test Ares First Stage Motor
NASA and industry engineers lit up the Utah sky Thursday with the initial full-scale, full-duration test firing of the first stage motor for the Ares I rocket. The Ares I is a crew launch vehicle in development for NASA’s Constellation Program.
Read More »45th Joint Propulsion Conference and Exhibit
Find out how innovative aerospace propulsion technologies get inserted into both new and evolving systems and earn or how advanced system applications can be used to showcase the propulsion systems, components and technologies that enable them.
Read More »USAF 45th Space Wing Study
Capsule~100%-Fratricide Environments (Implications for NASA’s Ares-1 and Crew) Estimate of Secondary Effects of the Solid Rocket Booster (SRB) Destruct Debris Environment on the Constellation Capsule.
Read More »NASA's Shuttle Endeavour Launches to Complete Japanese Module
Space shuttle Endeavour and its seven-member crew launched at 6:03 p.m. EDT Wednesday from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Read More »NASA Stirs Up the First Development Dome Welds for Ares I Upper Stage
Using a metal joining technique called friction stir welding, the Ares Projects team at the Marshall Center has completed welding the first liquid hydrogen tank dome being developed to define manufacturing processes for the upper stage of the Ares I.
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