Arianespace orders 30 Ariane 5 rockets
Posted: Tue, Jun 24 10:45 AM ET (1445 GMT)
Arianespace announced Friday that it has ordered an additional 30 Ariane 5 boosters for use in the second half of the decade. The company said...

Boeing considering more satellite layoffs
Posted: Mon, Jun 23 8:27 PM ET (0027 GMT)
Boeing is considering laying off additional employees of its satellite manufacturing unit as it copes with a downturn in the commercial market, the Wall Street...

Alcatel, Astrium to collaborate on new satellite bus
Posted: Mon, Jun 23 8:18 PM ET (0018 GMT)
Alcatel and Astrium announced Friday that they will jointly develop and market a new class of large communications satellites. The AlphaBus family of spacecraft are...

Opportunity rover launch delayed
Posted: Sun, Jun 22 10:14 AM ET (1414 GMT)
The launch of Opportunity, the second of twin NASA Mars rovers, has been delayed a couple of days because of a launch vehicle problem. NASA...

Mars Express glitch hampers Beagle 2 startup
Posted: Sat, Jun 21 5:35 PM ET (2135 GMT)
A computer problem with the ESA Mars Express spacecraft has delayed plans to establish communications with British-built Beagle 2 lander attached to Mars Express,...

Orbital expects loss in 2nd quarter
Posted: Fri, Jun 20 7:18 PM ET (2318 GMT)
Orbital Sciences Corporation expects a loss in its fiscal second quarter, in part because of its settlement of a dispute with Orbimage. The company announced...

Nozomi completes final Earth flyby
Posted: Fri, Jun 20 12:23 PM ET (1623 GMT)
Japan's Nozomi Mars mission made its final flyby of the Earth on Thursday, but project officials admitted that technical problems with the spacecraft have...

Russia launches military communications satellite
Posted: Fri, Jun 20 12:09 PM ET (1609 GMT)
A Russian Molniya booster launched a military communications satellite late Thursday. The Molniya-M booster lifted off from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northern Russia at...

December shuttle mission possible but unlikely
Posted: Thu, Jun 19 10:47 AM ET (1447 GMT)
NASA is still planning to return the shuttle to flight with a December launch, but a key official conceded that most likely that launch will...

Antenna glitch threatens SOHO mission
Posted: Thu, Jun 19 10:34 AM ET (1434 GMT)
A problem with the high-gain antenna on the NASA-ESA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) spacecraft could drastically reduce the amount of data the...