News

First Angara Launch Postponed to 2014

By Matteo Emanuelli on April 26, 2013

New delays affect the development of the Angara rocket (Credits: RIA Novosti). The maiden flight of the Angara rocket, previously expected in... Read more →

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Cygnus Mass Simulator Photographed from Antares

By Staff Writers on April 25, 2013

On April 21, Orbital Sciences successfully launched its Antares rocket on its first test flight from Wallops Island. In lieu of the real Cygnus... Read more →

Launch

Progress M-19M Heads to ISS Down One Antenna

By Merryl Azriel on April 25, 2013

Soyuz-U carrying the Progress M-19M liftsoff from Baikonour (Credits: NASA TV). At 10:21 GMT on April 24, the Progress M-19M cargo vessel... Read more →

News

Russian Docking Module to be Deorbited and Sunk This Year

By Matteo Emanuelli on April 25, 2013

The Pirs module with the two Strela cranes (Credits: NASA). Russia is planning to deorbit and sink its Pirs docking module, now attached to the... Read more →

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NASA Reports Micrometeoroid Handrail Risk on ISS Solved

By Merryl Azriel on April 24, 2013

Illustration of the crater and lip typically formed when a micrometeoroid impacts a metal surface (Credits: Orbital Debris Quarterly News). As... Read more →

Press Releases

Interview with LiftPort’s Michael J. Laine

By moonandback on April 24, 2013

A Tethered Tower being hoisted in a balloon test (Credits: LiftPort). Space elevators are usually the realm of science fiction, but Michael J.... Read more →