Thales Alenia Space of France and Italy announced May 30 it had shipped the first Cygnus space station cargo transport module to Orbital Sciences Corp. for a planned launch aboard Orbital’s Taurus 2 ...

Dream Chaser® Spaceplane’s Cargo Companion Subjected to Sound Forces Simulating the Extreme Noise Levels of a Rocket Launch During the Direct Field Acoustic Test (DFAN), the test team placed stacks of ...

This story was updated at 7:42 a.m. EDT. HOUSTON – The four astronauts aboard space shuttle Atlantis astronauts made the last big delivery of NASA's shuttle era today (July 11) when they attached a ...

The Cygnus service module will be mated to the cargo module (above), which arrived at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida in August for a planned December launch on an Atlas 5 rocket. Credit: NASA/KSC ...

The Tianhe core module cabin, the first section for China's space station project, has completed in-orbit performance checks with all systems in good condition. It is preparing to dock with the ...

A Chinese cargo spacecraft carrying equipment and supplies successfully docked with the core module of the country's future space station on Sunday, state media said. A Long March 7 rocket carrying ...

BEIJING (Reuters) - A Chinese robotic resupply cargo spacecraft successfully docked with an orbiting space station module on Monday in the fourth of 11 missions needed to finish building China's first ...

Three weeks ago, NASA revealed that a shipping container protecting a Cygnus spacecraft sustained “damage” while traveling to the launch site in Florida. Built by Northrop Grumman, Cygnus is one of ...

A Russian cargo ship departed the International Space Station early Thursday (Nov. 25) to make room for a new docking port that's already on its way to the orbiting laboratory. The automated Progress ...

A private-sector partner in America’s space effort says it is teaming up with Russia’s top space company to establish a new commercial outpost in orbit. The plan calls for the construction of a ...

You know those battered aluminum cargo containers you see stacked up at the airport? Well, those might soon contain people, and not just stuff. TIMCO, manufacturer of all kinds of airplane interiors, ...

BEIJING, Sept 20 (Reuters) - A Chinese robotic resupply cargo spacecraft successfully docked with an orbiting space station module on Monday in the fourth of 11 missions needed to finish building ...