Aerojet Rocketdyne Gets Fired Up About 3D Printing Zero-G News Admin March 20, 2015 Commercial Space, Frontpage Articles, News, Press Releases, Rockets, Spaceflight, Top Stories Additive Manufacturing, also known as 3d printing, has been something of a hot topic in the aerospace industry lately. There is even a 3D printer from Made In Space, Inc. (http://www.madeinspace.us) onboard...
NASA Selects Winning Student Designs Of 3-D Printed Tools For Astronauts Zero-G News Admin February 5, 2015 Commercial Space, Frontpage Articles, ISS, NASA, Press Releases, Top Stories After three months of designing and modeling, a panel of judges from NASA, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers Foundation (ASME) and Made In Space Inc. have selected the winners of the Future...
NASA’s New Horizons Returns First Photos Of Pluto, Charon As It Nears Encounter Zero-G News Admin February 4, 2015 Exploration, Frontpage Articles, NASA, Planetary Science, Press Releases, Space Exploration, Top Stories NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft returned its first new images of Pluto on Wednesday, as the probe closes in on the dwarf planet. Although still just a dot along with its largest moon, Charon, the images come...
Planetary Society Announces LightSail Spacecraft Test Flight Zero-G News Admin January 26, 2015 Commercial Space, CubeSat, CubeSats, Frontpage Articles, Nanosatellites, News, Planetary Science, Press Releases, Small Sats, Space Exploration, Spaceflight, Top Stories, Unmanned Spaceflight The Planetary Society today announced the first of its LightSail spacecraft will embark on a May 2015 test flight. Funded entirely by private citizens, the solar sail satellite will hitch a ride to space...
NASA Completes Investigation of 2014 Sounding Rocket Failure Zero-G News Admin January 22, 2015 Frontpage Articles, NASA, Press Releases, Rockets, Top Stories January 12, 2015 - An investigation team has determined that the failure of a July 2014 Terrier-Improved Malemute suborbital sounding rocket flight from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia was linked...
Five Sounding Rockets To Study Effect of Solar Wind On The Weather Zero-G News Admin January 12, 2015 Frontpage Articles, Launches, NASA, Press Releases January 13, 2015 - The interaction of solar winds and Earth’s atmosphere produces northern lights, or auroras, that dance across the night sky and mesmerize the casual observer. However, to scientists this...
Atlas V Racks Up 50th Success With Launch of GPS IIF-8 For U.S. Air Force Zero-G News Admin October 29, 2014 Commercial Space, Frontpage Articles, Launches, News, Press Releases, Rockets, Spaceflight, Top Stories, Unmanned Spaceflight A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket successfully launched the eighth Global Positioning System (GPS) IIF-8 satellite for the U.S. Air Force at 1:21 p.m. EDT today from Space Launch Complex-41. This...
JPL Selects CubeSat Proposals for Europa Clipper Mission Study Zero-G News Admin October 8, 2014 CubeSat, CubeSats, Nanosatellites, NASA, Planetary Science, Press Releases, Small Sats, Unmanned Spaceflight NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, has chosen proposals from 10 universities to study CubeSat concepts that could enhance a Europa mission concept currently under study by NASA. The...
India, U.S. To Collaborate On Earth Obsevation, Mars Missions Zero-G News Admin September 30, 2014 Frontpage Articles, Mars, NASA, Press Releases, Space Exploration, Top Stories In a meeting Tuesday in Toronto, NASA Administrator Charles Bolden and K. Radhakrishnan, chairman of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), signed two documents to launch a NASA-ISRO satellite mission...
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...
