Dream Chaser lines up network of public airport landing options

Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) has presented an overview on the wealth of potential landing site options available to its Dream Chaser spacecraft, outlining how the company could add…

ATK expand on its domestic alternative to Atlas V’s RD-180

ATK has provided additional details about its domestic alternative to the Russian-built RD-180 engine currently in use on the venerable Atlas V rocket of United Launch Alliance (ULA)….

Post mortem for CRS-3 Antares notes turbopump failure

Engineers are methodically working through stacks of data related to last week’s failure of the CRS-3/OrB-3 Antares launch vehicle. Orbital managers have noted that early data points to the…

SLS manifest targets Europa and Mars Sample Return missions

NASA is moving up a gear with its manifest planning for the Space Launch System (SLS). A new internal manifest portrays a tag team approach, alternating SLS between…

Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo fails during test flight

One pilot has died and another seriously injured during a test flight failure of Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo on Friday. The much-delayed suborbital space tourism vehicle suffered a catastrophic…

EFT-1 Orion completes assembly and conducts FRR

The stars are aligning for the December 4 debut mission of NASA’s Orion spacecraft, following the completion of the Flight Readiness Review (FRR) – albeit with three “actions”…

ULA Atlas V successfully launches with GPS IIF-8 satellite

In what is proving to be a dramatic week for space flight, United Launch Alliance’s Atlas V rocket made its fiftieth flight on Wednesday, tasked with orbiting the…

Russian Progress M-25M docks with the ISS

A Russian Soyuz 2-1A rocket lofted the latest Progress resupply vehicle (M-25M) for a fast rendezvous trip to the International Space Station (ISS). The launch of the Progress…

Orbital’s Antares fails seconds after launch

Orbital’s Antares launch vehicle – tasked with lofting the CRS-3 Cygnus to the International Space Station (ISS) – dramatically failed after around ten seconds of flight, exploding and…

Antares 130 debut with fourth Cygnus ready for second attempt

Orbital Sciences Corporation – with their new version of their Antares rocket – will make a second attempt to loft the fourth Cygnus mission to the International Space…

• Chinese Long March 2C launches final Shijian-11 satellite
• CRS-4: SpaceX Dragon returns back to Earth
• SNC reveals the DC4Science Dream Chaser variant
• China launches lunar sample return test mission
• Russian EVA-40 concludes final ISS spacewalk of 2014
• Russian Proton-M launches Ekspress-AM6 satellite – orbit unclear
• China lofts Yaogan-22 via Long March 4C rocket
• Mars fleet watch Siding Spring Comet flyby
• Third X-37B returns home after nearly two years in space
• Ariane 5 launches with ARSAT-1 and Intelsat DLA-1

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