ATK Signs Unfunded Space Act Agreement With NASA For Liberty Rocket Development
Artist's conception of the Liberty launch vehicle (Credits: ATK). ATK and NASA announced on September 13 an unfunded Space Act Agreement (SSA)... Read more →
Boeing CST-100 Airbag Test
Boeing and Bigelow Aerospace have recently conducted a series of successful air bag drop tests for the Crew Space Transportation (CST)-100 mock... Read more →
NASA Starts Building First Space-Bound Capsule
First weld for the Multi-Purpose Crew Module at the Michoud Assembly Facility on September 9, 2011 (Credits: NASA). NASA has officially began the... Read more →
NASA Re-entry and Risk Assessment for UARS
NASA published on its website a Re-entry and Risk Assessment for the Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS), which is expected to... Read more →
ATK Conducts Third Successful Test of DM-3 Solid Rocket Motor
The DM-3 five-segment solid rocket booster during the Sept. 8, 2011 static test firing (Credits: ATK). ATK conducted a third successful ground... Read more →
Roscosmos Identifies Cause of Soyuz Failure
Russian space agency Roscosmos released a press statement on the failure of the third stage of a Soyuz rocket, which was carrying Progress M12-M... Read more →