FUSE completes "brain transplant" to keep spacecraft operating
Posted: Tue, Jul 22 10:48 AM ET (1448 GMT)
Engineers have successfully completed a software upload to NASA's Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer (FUSE) spacecraft to preemptively deal with possible problems with the spacecraft'...

Telecom firms strike satellite TV deals
Posted: Tue, Jul 22 10:33 AM ET (1433 GMT)
Two major US telephone companies announced deals on Monday that will allow them to sell satellite TV services from DirecTV and EchoStar. Under one agreement,...

Hawaiian judge blocks NASA telescope plans
Posted: Mon, Jul 21 8:27 PM ET (0027 GMT)
A federal judge in Hawaii last week blocked a NASA proposal to construct a series of smaller telescopes around the Keck Observatory until the agency...

Poll: majority wants shuttle grounded until new goals set
Posted: Sun, Jul 20 1:13 PM ET (1713 GMT)
A poll published Sunday by the Houston Chronicle reveals that a majority of Americans want to keep the space shuttle grounded until NASA redefines the...

Study: fewer asteroids hit Earth's surface
Posted: Sun, Jul 20 12:57 PM ET (1657 GMT)
Fewer large asteroids will strike the surface of the Earth than previously thought because they will instead break up in the atmosphere, according to a...

X-43 failure blamed on poor modeling
Posted: Sat, Jul 19 3:34 PM ET (1934 GMT)
A NASA investigation into the loss of a hypersonic research vehicle two years ago concluded that poor modeling of the combination of the vehicle and...

Status of ISS cosmonaut's wedding plans uncertain
Posted: Sat, Jul 19 3:24 PM ET (1924 GMT)
Plans by Russian cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko to get married while still on the International Space Station may or may not have been put on hold,...

Boeing hires former senator for ethics review as new lawsuit emerges
Posted: Fri, Jul 18 11:15 AM ET (1515 GMT)
Boeing announced Thursday that it has hired a former US Senator to conduct an independent review of the company's ethics policies even as word...

Atlas 5 launches Rainbow 1
Posted: Fri, Jul 18 1:08 AM ET (0508 GMT)
A new variant of the Atlas 5 booster successfully launched a direct broadcasting satellite Thursday evening. The Atlas 5 521 lifted off from Complex 41...

SOHO resumes full operations
Posted: Thu, Jul 17 6:09 PM ET (2209 GMT)
The NASA-ESA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) spacecraft has emerged from a period of partial communications blackouts, ESA reported Thursday. Contact with SOHO had...