Ariane launch delayed
Posted: Wed, Aug 28 7:52 AM ET (1152 GMT)
Technical problems delayed the Ariane 5 launch of two satellites Tuesday by one day. The Ariane 5 was scheduled to launch at 6:30 pm...

News briefs: August 27
Posted: Wed, Aug 28 7:42 AM ET (1142 GMT)
Loral Space and Communications said Tuesday that it plans to buy back preferred stock in a debt-reduction effort. The company is offering $1.92...

News briefs: August 26
Posted: Tue, Aug 27 8:00 AM ET (1200 GMT)
NASA has appointed a team to investigate the apparent failure of the CONTOUR spacecraft, the agency announced Monday. NASA chief engineer Theron Bradley will lead...

Cosmonauts complete ISS spacewalk
Posted: Mon, Aug 26 2:11 PM ET (1811 GMT)
Two Russian cosmonauts successfully completed a spacewalk outside the International Space Station early Monday. Valery Korzun and Sergei Treschev spent five hours and 21 minutes...

TRW, Spectrum Astro win satellite contracts
Posted: Mon, Aug 26 10:27 AM ET (1427 GMT)
TRW won a multi-billion dollar government contract late Friday to build the next generation of weather satellites, while Spectrum Astro won a smaller, unrelated...

News briefs: August 24-25
Posted: Mon, Aug 26 7:58 AM ET (1158 GMT)
Negotiations between the US and Europe have failed to reach an agreement about a potential conflict between the GPS and Galileo navigation systems. American officials...

CONTOUR recovery efforts ramp down
Posted: Sat, Aug 24 11:57 AM ET (1557 GMT)
CONTOUR project officials announced Friday that nearly-continuous efforts to reestablish contact with the spacecraft have ended, further reducing hopes that the mission can be...

News briefs: August 23
Posted: Sat, Aug 24 11:45 AM ET (1545 GMT)
Lance Bass apparently has an extra week to round up the funding to fly on a Soyuz taxi mission in October. Bass is scheduled to...

News briefs: August 22
Posted: Fri, Aug 23 8:17 AM ET (1217 GMT)
Orbital Sciences Corporation announced Thursday that it had completed the sale of $135 million in bank notes that the company announced earlier this month. The...

Science briefs: August 22
Posted: Fri, Aug 23 8:01 AM ET (1201 GMT)
Scientists have found evidence that an asteroid collided with the Earth nearly 3.5 billion years ago. Rocks in South Africa and Australia contain spherules...