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NASA resumes work on commercial crew contracts
Posted: Fri, Oct 10 8:12 AM ET (1212 GMT)
NASA announced Thursday that it has lifted a stop-work order to two companies that won commercial crew contracts last month despite an ongoing protest...

Frozen hydrazine lines blamed for Soyuz Galileo launch anomaly
Posted: Fri, Oct 10 7:57 AM ET (1157 GMT)
An investigation into a problem that stranded two Galileo satellites in the wrong orbits in August concluded that hydrazine fuel lines in the Soyuz rocket'...

X-37B to use former shuttle hangars
Posted: Fri, Oct 10 7:48 AM ET (1148 GMT)
Two hangars formerly used by the Space Shuttle program will be taken over by a secretive Air Force military spaceplane program, NASA announced this week,...

Astronauts complete ISS spacewalk
Posted: Wed, Oct 8 8:50 AM ET (1250 GMT)
Two astronauts performed a six-hour spacewalk outside the International Space Station on Tuesday, completing all the major tasks planned for the EVA. NASA's...

Japan launches weather satellite
Posted: Wed, Oct 8 8:40 AM ET (1240 GMT)
An H-2A rocket successfully launched a new weather satellite on Tuesday. The H-2A rocket lifted off from the Tanegashima Space Center at 1:...

Globalstar stock falls after report devalues company spectrum
Posted: Wed, Oct 8 8:24 AM ET (1224 GMT)
Satellite communications company Globalstar denied a report this week that claimed one of the company's key assets was worthless. A report issued Monday by...

Sierra Nevada and Stratolaunch study new Dream Chaser launch option
Posted: Sat, Oct 4 10:44 AM ET (1444 GMT)
Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) and Stratolaunch Systems announced this week that they two companies have been studying developing a modified version of the Dream Chaser...

NASA and ISRO sign agreement on Mars, Earth science cooperation
Posted: Sat, Oct 4 10:27 AM ET (1427 GMT)
The space agencies of India and the United States signed an agreement this week to cooperate on both an Earth sciences mission and Mars exploration....

China launches experimental satellite
Posted: Tue, Sep 30 8:46 AM ET (1246 GMT)
A Long March rocket placed what Chinese officials called an experimental satellite into orbit on Sunday. The Long March 2C rocket lifted off from the...

Proton returns to flight with government satellite launch
Posted: Sun, Sep 28 9:43 AM ET (1343 GMT)
A Russian Proton rocket launched Sunday for the first time since a May failure, placing a government communications satellite into orbit. The Proton-M lifted...



news in brief
Shenzhou 18 launches to Tiangong space station
Posted: Sun, Apr 28 10:11 AM ET (1411 GMT)

Starliner cleared for first crewed flight
Posted: Sun, Apr 28 10:06 AM ET (1406 GMT)

Cosmonauts perform ISS spacewalk
Posted: Sun, Apr 28 10:03 AM ET (1403 GMT)

news links
Thursday, May 2
Lockheed-Boeing Venture Told It Must Launch More Satellites
Bloomberg News — 5:24 am ET (0924 GMT)
SpaceX launch set for Thursday morning from Vandenberg
Los Angeles Daily News — 5:23 am ET (0923 GMT)


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