NewSpace

XCOR’s Mark Street makes an adjustment to a fitting on the pump apparatus prior to an LH2 test. June 8th, 2010, Mojave, CA, USA and Littleton, CO, USA:   XCOR Aerospace, the developer of the Lynx, a manned suborbital spacecraft and

Space Exploration’s Falcon 9 launch vehicle made it’s first flight at 11:45am PDT today, lifting off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Launch Complex 40 after a few delays (for FTS telemetry and a sailboat in the exclusion zone) and

SpaceX is now targeting Friday, June 4th for its first test launch attempt of the Falcon 9 launch vehicle. The primary schedule driver for the first Falcon 9 test launch has been certification of the flight termination system (FTS). The

May 25th, 2010, Mojave, CA, USA: XCOR Aerospace and Masten Space Systems, two of the leaders in the New Space sector, have announced a strategic business and technology relationship to pursue jointly the anticipated NASA sponsored unmanned lander projects. These

The NewSpace 2010 Conference is set for July 23-25 at NASA’s Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California. The Space Frontier Foundation’s annual conference is an opportunity for NewSpace industry leaders to celebrate the rapid progress made in this field,

XA-0.1-B (Xombie) boosted hop to 1,047′ “Masten Space Systems flew Xombie to its highest altitude yet! All systems functioned well. Xombie landed within roughly 3″ of its take off point. A special thank you to the Friends of Amateur Rocketry

Inaugural Falcon 9 / Dragon Flight Hardware Update Monday, January 4, 2010 The SpaceX team kicked off 2010 with the successful full duration orbit insertion firing of the Falcon 9 second stage at our Texas test site (details below). This