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Computer glitch may have caused Soyuz landing error
Posted: Tue, May 6 5:37 PM ET (2137 GMT)
A bug in guidance software may have led to the nearly 500-kilometer landing error of the Soyuz TMA-1 spacecraft on Sunday. MSNBC reported...

Report: federal government investigating Boeing use of rival's documents
Posted: Mon, May 5 9:30 AM ET (1330 GMT)
The federal government is investigating whether The Boeing Company improperly used confidential Lockheed Martin documents to help it win critical launch vehicle and military satellite...

Soyuz lands safely but off-course
Posted: Sun, May 4 10:04 AM ET (1404 GMT)
A Soyuz capsule carrying the three-man Expedition Six space station crew landed safely late Saturday night in Kazakhstan, but touched down nearly 500 kilometers...

NASA: no way to save Columbia during reentry
Posted: Fri, May 2 7:48 PM ET (2348 GMT)
An internal NASA report prepared after the Columbia accident and released this week concluded that there was no way to alter the reentry of the...

Hubble emerges from safe mode
Posted: Fri, May 2 8:51 AM ET (1251 GMT)
The Hubble Space Telescope resumed scientific observations late Wednesday, more than a day after a gyroscope failure caused the spacecraft to enter a protective safe...

CNES drops Mars, ISS projects
Posted: Thu, May 1 8:56 AM ET (1256 GMT)
The French space agency CNES announced Wednesday that it will cancel plans to mount a series of Mars landers as well as experiments planned for...

Lockheed Martin wins Japanese satellite order
Posted: Thu, May 1 8:43 AM ET (1243 GMT)
A Japanese satellite operator has selected Lockheed Martin to build a new communications satellite, the first commercial order for Lockheed in two years. Lockheed Martin...

Gyro failure puts Hubble in safe mode
Posted: Wed, Apr 30 2:12 PM ET (1812 GMT)
A gyroscope failure on the Hubble Space Telescope Tuesday has put the spacecraft into a temporary safe mode that should end by Wednesday evening. Gyro...

Columbia investigators shift focus from T-seal
Posted: Wed, Apr 30 1:53 PM ET (1753 GMT)
Members of the Columbia Accident Investigation Board (CAIB) said Tuesday that they believe it is less likely that a T-seal on the leading edge...

BeppoSAX reenters over Pacific
Posted: Wed, Apr 30 1:40 PM ET (1740 GMT)
The Italian astronomy satellite BeppoSAX harmlessly reentered late Tuesday over the Pacific Ocean, with any surviving debris landing hundreds of kilometers from the nearest islands....



news in brief

SpaceX launches Indonesia communications satellite
Posted: Sun, Sep 14 4:07 AM ET (0807 GMT)

Soyuz launches Progress cargo spacecraft to ISS
Posted: Sun, Sep 14 4:06 AM ET (0806 GMT)

news links
Friday, September 19
US and UK carry out first joint satellite operation in orbit
The Independent — 12:30 am ET (0430 GMT)


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