Orbital wins two Minotaur launch contracts
Posted: Fri, May 26 1:27 PM ET (1727 GMT)
Orbital Sciences Corporation announced Thursday that it has won contracts for the launches of two small military satellites on its Minotaur 1 launch vehicle. The $...

Delta 4 launches weather satellite
Posted: Thu, May 25 8:00 AM ET (1200 GMT)
A Delta 4 successfully launched a long-delayed weather satellite Wednesday evening. The Delta 4 Medium-Plus (4,2) lifted off from pad 37B at...

GAO warns about DSN
Posted: Tue, May 23 6:37 AM ET (1037 GMT)
A report issued Monday by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) warns that NASA's Deep Space Network (DSN) may not be able to support future...

Discovery rolled out to pad
Posted: Sat, May 20 9:24 AM ET (1324 GMT)
The space shuttle Discovery is now on the launch pad in advance of its planned July launch. NASA rolled Discovery out from the Vehicle Assembly...

NASA picks RS-68 for heavy-lift rocket
Posted: Fri, May 19 8:15 AM ET (1215 GMT)
NASA officials have decided to use the RS-68 engine, and not a derivative of the Space Shuttle Main Engine (SSME), on the first stage...

Ariane to launch Eutelsat W2M
Posted: Fri, May 19 8:03 AM ET (1203 GMT)
Arianespace announced Thursday that it has won a contract to launch a new small Eutelsat spacecraft. An Ariane 5 will launch the Eutelsat W2M spacecraft...

Multi-planet solar system discovered
Posted: Thu, May 18 8:04 AM ET (1204 GMT)
European astronomers have discovered three Neptune-sized exoplanets and a probable asteroid belt orbiting a Sunlike star. In a paper in the Thursday issue of...

NASA releases DART report summary
Posted: Tue, May 16 8:03 AM ET (1203 GMT)
A collision between a small NASA satellite and another spacecraft last year has been blamed on a glitch with the spacecraft's navigation system, compounded...

Astrium/ISRO venture wins broadband satellite contract
Posted: Tue, May 16 7:50 AM ET (1150 GMT)
A joint venture between EADS Astrium and the Indian space agency ISRO has won a contract for a broadband communications satellite. British company Avanti Screenmedia...

New model explains capture of Triton
Posted: Mon, May 15 7:32 AM ET (1132 GMT)
Planetary scientists have developed a new model that explains how Triton, Neptune's largest moon, ended up in its unusual orbit. According to a study...