Australian Space Agency warned: fund it or risk failure Zero-G News Admin December 3, 2018 Business, Commentary, Commercial Space, Frontpage Articles, Press Releases, Top Stories The outgoing chairman of the Space Industry Association of Australia warns that without proper funding the nation’s Space Agency could falter. Jim PlouffeLeading space expert Michael Davis, who is...
Sierra Nevada Targets Air-Launch With Stratolaunch Partnership Zero-G News Admin September 30, 2014 Business, Commercial Space, Frontpage Articles, Human Spaceflight, News, Press Releases, Spaceflight, Top Stories Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) today announced a design for an integrated system for human spaceflight that can be launched to low Earth orbit (LEO) using Stratolaunch Systems' air launch architecture and a...
United Launch Alliance and Blue Origin To Develop RD-180 Alternative Zero-G News Admin September 17, 2014 Business, Commercial Space, Frontpage Articles, Rockets, Top Stories, Unmanned Spaceflight Model of Blue Origin BE-4 engine. Photo Credit: United Launch Alliance Facing pressure to find a domestic replacement for the Russian-built RD-180 liquid fuel rocket engine that powers the Atlas V EELV,...
SpaceX Breaks Ground For Texas Spaceport, With Just A Hint Of Politics Zero-G News Admin September 16, 2014 Business, Commercial Space, Politics Gov. Rick Perry today helped break ground on the SpaceX Commercial Launch Facility located near Boca Chica Beach, which will launch commercial satellites into orbit. "This announcement represents a huge step...
One More Leap, Boeing And SpaceX Win NASA’s Commercial Crew Contracts Zero-G News Admin September 16, 2014 Business, Commercial Space, Frontpage Articles, Human Spaceflight, ISS, NASA, News, Press Releases, space station, Spaceflight, Top Stories U.S. astronauts once again will travel to and from the International Space Station from the United States on American spacecraft under groundbreaking contracts NASA announced Tuesday. The agency unveiled its...
ULA Names Tory Bruno President And CEO; Michael Gass Retires Zero-G News Admin August 12, 2014 Business, Commercial Space, Frontpage Articles, Press Releases, Top Stories Michael Gass, president and CEO of United Launch Alliance, or ULA, joins Sierra Nevada Corporation, or SNC, Space Systems, as the company announces the steps it will take to prepare for a November 2016...
NASA’s Final Commercial Orbital Transportation Services Report Released Zero-G News Admin June 6, 2014 Business, Commercial Space, Frontpage Articles, ISS, NASA, News, Press Releases, space station, Spaceflight, Top Stories, Unmanned Spaceflight With two companies now providing commercial cargo launch services for the International Space Station, NASA is issuing its final report on the now-complete Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS)...
Orbital And ATK Announce Merger Continuing Industry Consolidation Zero-G News Admin May 6, 2014 Business, Commercial Space Orbital Sciences Corporation today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement with Alliant Techsystems Inc., which will combine Orbital and ATK’s Aerospace and Defense (A&D) Groups to...
NASA Partnerships Launch Multi-User Spaceport Zero-G News Admin May 1, 2014 Business, Commercial Space, NASA This aerial view shows the Vehicle Assembly Building, or VAB, and other buildings in the Launch Complex 39 area at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on May 6, 2013. The Launch Control Center is in front of the...
Boeing Announces Expansion Of X-37B Operations At Kennedy Space Center Zero-G News Admin January 3, 2014 Business, Rockets OTV-2 is seen here at the Vandenberg Air Force Base, in California, after completing its 468-day stay in space, on June 16, 2012. Image credits: USAF / Boeing In what could be a boon for the aerospace...