Ariane launches two satellites
Posted: Fri, Aug 15 7:55 AM ET (1155 GMT)
An Ariane 5 rocket successfully launched two communications satellites for Japanese and American customers on Thursday. The Ariane 5 ECA lifted off from the spaceport...

NASA leaves shuttle launch dates unchanged
Posted: Fri, Aug 15 7:38 AM ET (1138 GMT)
NASA shuttle managers on Thursday decided against moving up the launch dates of the next two shuttle missions by a few days each. Shuttle managers...

Cassini flies past Enceladus
Posted: Thu, Aug 14 8:36 AM ET (1236 GMT)
NASA's Cassini spacecraft is returning close-up images of the surface of Saturn's icy moon Enceladus after flying very close to the moon...

Measat, GeoEye launches delayed
Posted: Wed, Aug 13 8:42 AM ET (1242 GMT)
Two launches of commercial satellites planned for later this month were delayed Tuesday, and in one case could be postponed for months. The Measat 3a...

NASA delays first crewed Orion flight
Posted: Tue, Aug 12 8:58 AM ET (1258 GMT)
NASA announced Monday that it was delaying its internal schedule for the first crewed flight of the Orion crew exploration vehicle by a year because...

Hubble celebrates 100,000th orbit
Posted: Tue, Aug 12 8:37 AM ET (1237 GMT)
Astronomers marked on Monday the 100,000th orbit around the Earth by the Hubble Space Telescope by releasing a colorful image of a nebula. The...

Air Force to transfer launch complex to Space Florida
Posted: Fri, Aug 8 7:30 AM ET (1130 GMT)
The US Air Force announced Thursday that it has assigned control of an inactive launch site on Cape Canaveral to a state agency, which plans...

Thrust transient cause of Falcon 1 failure
Posted: Thu, Aug 7 7:41 AM ET (1141 GMT)
A thrust transient after the first stage main engine shut down is being blamed for the failure of the latest Falcon 1 launch, SpaceX announced...

Perchlorate detected in Martian soil
Posted: Wed, Aug 6 7:50 AM ET (1150 GMT)
Scientists with NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander mission said Tuesday that they have detected traces of perchlorate in samples of Martian soil analyzed by the...

Iridium picks finalists for new satellite system
Posted: Wed, Aug 6 7:33 AM ET (1133 GMT)
Iridium Satellite LLC announced this week that it has selected two companies, Lockheed Martin and Thales Alenia Space, as finalists for the contract to build...