Pioneering Woman Rocket Scientist Remembered
Yvonne Brill, inventor of a propulsion system to help keep communications satellites from escaping their orbits in the early 1970s, died at the age... Read more →
Xombie Makes Highest, Longest Flight
As promised, Masten Space System's Xombie campaign continued throughout March, culminating with the vertical take off vertical landing vessel's... Read more →
OPSEK: After ISS – the Next Mir?
A proposed concept for OPSEK in 2011 (Credits: Roscosmos). In June 2011 cooperating countries agreed to finance the International Space Station... Read more →
ATV Entering Final Preparations for June Launch
ATV transfered on a giant skid to the S5B preparation zone in Kourou (Credits: ESA). The European Space Agency’s (ESA) fourth Automated... Read more →
NASA May Be Requesting $100 Million for Asteroid Mission
Keck's asteroid capture concept (Credits: Rick Sternbach/Keck Institute for Space Studies). According to Aviation Week, NASA’s budget request... Read more →
Tim Pickens on Watching Your Rocket Engine’s First Test Flight
Now chief propulsion engineer for Google Lunar X Prize team Moon Express, Tim Pickens is an old hand at X Prizes. In 2004, Pickens designed the... Read more →