Orbital buys General Dynamics satellite unit
Posted: Sat, Mar 6 8:11 AM ET (1311 GMT)
Orbital Sciences Corporation announced this week that it agreed to acquire the satellite division of General Dynamics. Orbital agreed to acquire the division, based in...

Delta 4 launches weather satellite
Posted: Fri, Mar 5 6:01 AM ET (1101 GMT)
A Delta 4 launch successfully placed a weather satellite into orbit Thursday night. The Delta 4 Medium+ (4,2) lifted off from Space Launch Complex...

China launches imaging satellite
Posted: Fri, Mar 5 5:47 AM ET (1047 GMT)
China launched a remote sensing satellite Friday, the latest in a series of satellites thought to have military applications. The Long March 4C rocket lifted...

Shuttle rolled out to pad
Posted: Wed, Mar 3 8:07 PM ET (0107 GMT)
The space shuttle Discovery was rolled out to its launch pad early Wednesday in preparation for its launch to the ISS next month. Discovery left...

Ice deposits discovered at Moon's north pole
Posted: Wed, Mar 3 6:20 AM ET (1120 GMT)
An American instrument on an Indian spacecraft has detected deposits of water ice in portions of craters in the Moon's north polar region, scientists...

Proton launches three GLONASS satellites
Posted: Tue, Mar 2 6:40 AM ET (1140 GMT)
A Proton rocket placed three new Russian navigation satellites into orbit early Tuesday. The Proton-M lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at...

Observatories survive Chilean earthquake unscathed
Posted: Tue, Mar 2 6:23 AM ET (1123 GMT)
Several major observatories in Chile made it through Saturday's massive earthquake without significant damage. The magnitude 8.8 earthquake struck Chile in the early...

NASA and ATK perform final test of shuttle SRBs
Posted: Fri, Feb 26 6:50 AM ET (1150 GMT)
NASA and ATK, the company that builds the solid rocket boosters used to launch the space shuttle, carried out the final ground test of those...

Congress criticizes NASA human spaceflight plans
Posted: Fri, Feb 26 6:24 AM ET (1124 GMT)
In a series of hearings this week members of Congress criticized NASA and the White House for its new human spaceflight policy the scraps the...

Endeavour lands at KSC
Posted: Mon, Feb 22 4:59 AM ET (0959 GMT)
The space shuttle Endeavour landed in Florida Sunday night, completing a mission to install the last major US element of the International Space Station. Endeavour...