UK uni rocket payload test hits 105,600ft
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Balloon flight success for budget von Brauns Students from the University of Cambridge "Spaceflight" project last week pulled off quite a coup when they successfully dispatched an experimental electronics package into the upper atmosphere strapped to a weather balloon, in the process capturing some impressive images of planet Earth from a peak altitude of 32.2km (105,600ft)â¦
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A Canadian team of rocketeers has moved one step closer to launching its own manned spacecraft with the successful parachute drop test of a crew capsule today.  &nbsp;  The backers of Canadian Arrow, a rocket entry in the &#36;10 million Ansari X Prize competition, watched happily as their crew compartment drifted down into Lake Ontario.  &nbsp;  Today totally proves our Canadian Arrow design, said Geoff Sheerin, leader of the London, Ontario-based Arrows bid for the X Prize. It went really well and everything worked as it should. ...
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Brazil has successfully launched a test rocket from the Alcantara base in northern Brazil on Saturday, October 23. The two-stage VSB-30 prototype flew for seven minutes at an altitude of about 100 kilometers above the earth.
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An unmanned experimental jet broke  a world record for speed on Tuesday by accelerating to about  7,000 miles per hour high over the Pacific Ocean in a NASA test  of cutting-edge engine technology.
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The second test flight of a Falcon 1 rocket built by the private spaceflight firm Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) has shifted to early March due to range safety demands at the company's island launch site.
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Fifty years ago today, the 70-foot (21-meter) tall Juno 1 rocket, a modified Redstone missile, launched the Explorer I satellite, marking the first U.S. built payload to enter Earth orbit. Three of the booster's four stages fell into the ocean while the fourth, which was used to boost Explorer I's velocity, entered orbit behind the satellite.
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A European rocket carrying two British and Indian satellites was successfully launched Sunday from South America after a one-day delay due to a technical glitch.
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America&#39;s new heavy-lifting rocket takes its much-anticipated test flight Saturday, if Mother Nature cooperates. The Boeing Delta 4-Heavy rocket was supposed to launch today, but the forecast for strong winds
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MOJAVE, Calif. - A privately owned rocket won a $10 million competition with its streak into space, and the event&#39;s success has sparked the creation of an annual competition that will test rockets in categories such as altitude, range and payload.
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By Sonja Barisic  ATLANTIC, Va. - Spectators cheered as a rocket carrying two experimental satellites blasted off Saturday in the first launch from the mid-Atlantic region's commercial spaceport, creating a blazing streak across the sky just before sunrise.
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Europe's most powerful rocket, carrying a payload of precious satellites, soared into space Saturday from its South American base in a successful launch more than two years after its inaugural flight ended in disaster.
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NASA&#39;s Swift satellite successfully launched today aboard a Boeing Delta 2 rocket at 12:16 pm EST from Launch Complex 17A at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla.
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By Frank D. Roylance, The Baltimore Sun  Dec. 10--All systems appeared to be "go" for tomorrow's planned 7 a.m. liftoff of one of the biggest rockets ever launched from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility, 40 miles south of Ocean City.
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Inside a physics lab at the University of Dayton Research Institute BBs are fired at 20,500 mph at spaceships. Sort of. The goal is to test the mettle of the composite fabric or aluminum skins on orbit-bound spacecraft.
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Unmanned aircraft with hydrogen engine does well in preliminary tests.
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Military communications via PFI British military intelligence satellite SkyNet5 blasted off into space this weekend from Kourou in French Guiana. The launch was originally scheduled for Saturday, but a small glitch in ground equipment prompted a 24 hour delay.â¦
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. &#x2014; Europe's bus-sized science lab will soon make its zero-gravity debut after the launch of NASA's space shuttle Atlantis tomorrow, weather permitting.