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 →
Roscosmos Requests Enhancement of Quality Control for Soyuz Rocket Engines
According to the Russian press agency Ria Novosti, the special commission investigating the causes of the August 24 failed launch of Russia's... Read more →