Spirit marks one year on Mars
Posted: Tue, Jan 4 8:57 AM ET (1357 GMT)
NASA celebrated Monday the first anniversary of the landing of the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit, a spacecraft originally expected to operate for just 90 days...

Russia to launch Japanese satellite
Posted: Mon, Jan 3 6:34 AM ET (1134 GMT)
A Russian company announced last week that it has won a contract to launch a Japanese government satellite. Kosmotras, which operates the Dnepr launch vehicle,...

ISS food problems blamed on previous crew
Posted: Thu, Dec 30 8:35 AM ET (1335 GMT)
The food shortage on the International Space Station, which at one point threatened an evacuation of the station, was caused when the previous crew ate...

New shuttle external tank ready
Posted: Wed, Dec 29 9:09 AM ET (1409 GMT)
The first space shuttle external tank that incorporates improvements to avoid the foam shedding that doomed the shuttle Columbia is ready to ship to Florida,...

Ukrainian satellites fail to reach proper orbit
Posted: Tue, Dec 28 12:13 PM ET (1713 GMT)
Russian officials confirmed Monday that a pair of Ukrainian satellites launched Friday on Tsiklon booster failed to reach their proper orbits because of an upper-...

2029 asteroid impact ruled out
Posted: Tue, Dec 28 12:01 PM ET (1701 GMT)
A small asteroid that earned the highest rating ever on an asteroid impact threat scale now poses no risk of colliding with the Earth in...

Russia launches GLONASS satellites
Posted: Mon, Dec 27 12:19 PM ET (1719 GMT)
A Proton rocket successfully launched three GLONASS navigation satellites on Sunday. The Proton-K booster lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 8:...

Progress docks with ISS
Posted: Sun, Dec 26 11:18 AM ET (1618 GMT)
A Progress cargo spacecraft carrying critical supplies successfully docked with the International Space Station Saturday night. The Progress M-51 spacecraft (also called Progress 16...

Huygens dispatched towards Titan
Posted: Sat, Dec 25 2:50 PM ET (1950 GMT)
The European-built Huygens probe separated from the Cassini spacecraft Friday night on a trajectory towards Saturn's largest moon, Titan. Huygens separated from Cassini...

Russia launches remote sensing satellites
Posted: Sat, Dec 25 2:37 PM ET (1937 GMT)
A Tsiklon booster launched two Ukrainian remote sensing satellites on Friday. The Tsiklon-3 (Cyclone-3) booster lifted off from the Plesetsk cosmodrome in northern...