China: no immediate plans for Mars missions
Posted: Sat, Mar 22 1:07 PM ET (1807 GMT)
China's space program has no plans to carry out unmanned missions to Mars before the middle of the next decade, Chinese officials have been...

Boeing wins Malaysian satellite contract
Posted: Fri, Mar 21 8:06 PM ET (0106 GMT)
Malaysian communications satellite operator Binariang Satellite Systems Sdn. Bhd. announced Friday that it will purchase a communications satellite from Boeing Satellite Systems. Binariang awarded Boeing...

NASA selects aurora science mission
Posted: Fri, Mar 21 7:50 PM ET (0050 GMT)
NASA announced Thursday that it has selected a mission to study the geomagnetic storms that create aurorae. The Time History of Events and Macroscale Interactions...

Columbia data recorder recovered
Posted: Thu, Mar 20 10:41 AM ET (1541 GMT)
Searchers have found a data recorder from the shuttle Columbia that could provide key data about the shuttle in its final minutes. The orbital experiments...

Gamma-ray burst marks death of giant star
Posted: Thu, Mar 20 10:31 AM ET (1531 GMT)
Astronomers who observed a gamma-ray burst (GRB) from its early stages believe that the burst marks the collapse of a giant star into a...

ILS wins Anik launch contract
Posted: Wed, Mar 19 8:19 PM ET (0119 GMT)
International Launch Services (ILS) announced Wednesday that it has won a contract to launch a communications satellite for Telesat Canada. ILS will launch Telesat Canada'...

Russia claims additional US funds required to maintain ISS
Posted: Wed, Mar 19 1:51 PM ET (1851 GMT)
A spokesman for the Russian space agency Rosaviakosmos said Wednesday that without additional money from the United States, Russia will not be able to build...

ESA, EU still deadlocked about Galileo
Posted: Wed, Mar 19 1:43 PM ET (1843 GMT)
The European Commission may begin work on the Galileo satellite navigation system without the cooperation of the European Space Agency if ESA cannot settle a...

Spacecraft glitch to delay Mars Express launch
Posted: Tue, Mar 18 10:36 AM ET (1536 GMT)
A problem with a component on ESA's Mars Express spacecraft will delay its launch from late May until early June, New Scientist reported Tuesday....

Hunt for "critical" shuttle debris continues
Posted: Tue, Mar 18 10:29 AM ET (1529 GMT)
Members of the Columbia Accident Investigation Board (CAIB) said Monday that the search for debris that fell from the shuttle in the minutes before its...