Science news articles about 'launch system'

... hardware of the Ares I-X rocket has arrived in Florida to begin preparation for the inaugural test flight of the agency's next-generation launch system. The test flight is targeted for July 12, 2009.

The government has launched a project to develop a midair rocket-launching system that can place satellites in orbit, it has been learned.

... Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) Weapon System successfully detected, tracked and intercepted a short- ... Lockheed Martin-developed MK-41 Vertical Launching System (VLS), Aegis guided the missiles ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - NASA on Wednesday cleared the launch system being developed to replace the space shuttle for a detailed design review, confident the Ares rocket will meet technical ...

... following on from the outbreak of the Creutzfeldt-Jakob ("mad cow") disease, the European Union launched systems for monitoring the prionic group of illnesses — the group to which FFI belongs. It was ...

... The company is developing a 21st-century space launch system based on the principles of an entirely carbon ... where permissible and very high-altitude air launch and firing of the benign rocket rather ...

Private space companies said Wednesday that they could provide cheaper, more reliable launch systems than those of NASA's Constellation program.

... order to do this robotically, the team developed a launch system that shoots two projectiles, each ... deployed to a distance of more than 70 meters. For Mars, a system deploying a 200-meter loop would ...

NASA has completed the assembly of its Ares I-X rocket, the first new launch system dedicated to manned spaceflight in a quarter of a century.