Shenzhou Manned Spacecraft Programme, China

Fairchild Dornier 728
The Fairchild Dornier 728JET family was launched during the...

Boeing 747-400 Intercontinental Airliner
Boeing had designed the 747 in the 1960s for the US Air Force's large...

Stardust
Stardust is a Nasa space mission to fly close to a comet and, for the...

XMM-Newton (X-Ray Multimirror)
The XMM-Newton (X-ray multimirror) telescope will explore the universe...

Mars Polar Lander
The Mars Surveyor '98 Programme comprised of two spacecraft...

China’s Shenzhou-9 completes first manual space docking
The Shenzhou-9 spacecraft has successfully completed manual docking...

NASA’s GRAIL spacecraft completes major mission
NASA's Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) mission has...

Boeing’s CST spacecraft completes software preliminary design review
Boeing's Commercial Crew Development (CCDev-2) initiative has...

Lockheed completes power-on testing of GeoEye-2 spacecraft
Lockheed Martin has completed power-on testing for the GeoEye-2...

Pratt & Whitney completes hot-fire test on engine for CST-100 spacecraft
Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne has completed the full-mission duration...

China launches Ziyuan III civilian remote sensing satellite
China has launched the first of a new series of high-resolution...

Nasa seeks funding for private spacecraft development
Nasa is planning to hold a competition in February of this year for a...

Nasa’s second GRAIL spacecraft enters into lunar orbit
Nasa has placed the second of two Gravity Recovery and Interior...

China launches unmanned spaceship Shenzhou 8
China has launched an unmanned spaceship, Shenzhou 8, in a bid to place...

Northrop Grumman to provide microwave sounder for JPSS Spacecraft
Northrop Grumman Systems has secured a $30m contract from Nasa to...