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Ariane 5 booster roars into life

An Ariane 5 solid-propellant booster was test-fired yesterday at Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana to help improve the reliability of Europe’s heavy launcher.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created May 28, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Portable chargers, boosters to ease green car woes

Chevrolet Europe's president Susan Doherty drives to work every day in an electric car, and thanks to a recharging station at work, she never worries about running out of power.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Mar 11, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

NASA successfully tests five-segment solid rocket motor

NASA and ATK Space Systems successfully completed a two-minute, full-scale test of Development Motor-3 (DM-3), Thursday, Sept. 8. DM-3 is NASA's largest and most powerful solid rocket motor ever designed for ...

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created Sep 09, 2011 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (21) | comments 30 | with audio podcast

Russia hopes nuclear ship will fly humans to Mars

(AP) -- Russia should build a new nuclear-powered spaceship for prospective manned missions to Mars and other planets, the nation's space chief said Thursday.

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created Oct 29, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (34) | comments 36

Future NASA rocket to be most powerful ever built (Update)

To soar far away from Earth and even beyond the moon, NASA has dreamed up the world's most powerful rocket, a behemoth that borrows from the workhorse liquid rockets that sent Apollo missions into space four ...

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created Sep 14, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (19) | comments 40

2 parachutes malfunctioned in NASA test flight

(AP) -- Two of three parachutes malfunctioned in the test flight of a prototype moon rocket earlier this week, causing major damage to the booster, NASA said Friday.

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created Oct 30, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 1

Russia's attempts to save Mars probe unsuccessful (Update)

As Russia's space agency struggled Thursday to fix a probe bound for a moon of Mars that instead got stuck in Earth's orbit, some experts said the chances of saving the $170 million craft looked slim.

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created Nov 10, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 29

Russians desperately try to save Mars moon probe (Update)

A Russian space probe aiming to land on a Mars moon was stuck circling the Earth after equipment failure Wednesday, and scientists raced to fire up its engines before the whole thing came crashing down.

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created Nov 09, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (10) | comments 83

Experimental Scramjet aircraft set for test flight

The X-51A Waverider hypersonic scramjet project is set for its second test flight today, and the U.S. Air Force hopes it will demonstrate technology that can eventually be used for more efficient transport ...

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created Mar 23, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (16) | comments 17 | with audio podcast

Allen, Rutan plan huge plane to launch spaceships

Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen and aerospace pioneer Burt Rutan are building the biggest plane ever to haul cargo and astronauts into space, in the latest of several ventures fueled by technology tycoons ...

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created Dec 13, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (14) | comments 32

Atlantis, astronauts ready; weather maybe not

(AP) -- NASA fueled space shuttle Atlantis for liftoff Friday on the final flight of the 30-year program, even though stormy weather threatened to delay the launch.

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created Jul 08, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

NASA: Booster rocket damaged in test flight

(AP) -- NASA says the booster rocket used in a test flight was badly dented when it fell into the Atlantic.

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created Oct 29, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Sls avionics test paves way for full-scale booster firing

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA has successfully tested the solid rocket booster avionics for the first two test flights of the Space Launch System, America's next heavy-lift launch vehicle. This avionics system includes ...

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created Apr 03, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Russia hints at foul play in its space failures

The head of Russia's beleaguered space programme hinted on Tuesday that foreign powers may be behind the string of failures that struck his agency in the past year.

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created Jan 10, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 7

Russia blames radiation for space probe failure

The head of Russia's space agency said Tuesday that cosmic radiation was the most likely cause of the failure of a Mars moon probe that crashed to Earth this month, and suggested that a low-quality imported ...

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created Jan 31, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 4