China confirms Sinosat-2 failure
Posted: Tue, Nov 28 8:25 AM ET (1325 GMT)
Chinese officials confirmed Tuesday that a new communications satellite launched a month ago has failed and will have to be replaced. Sinosat-2 was launched...

STS-116 flight readiness review to begin
Posted: Tue, Nov 28 8:19 AM ET (1319 GMT)
NASA will kick off a two-day flight readiness review for the next space shuttle mission today in advance of next week's planned launch...

ISS crew performs spacewalk, golf shot
Posted: Thu, Nov 23 10:10 AM ET (1510 GMT)
Two members of the crew of the International Space Station performed a spacewalk outside the station Wednesday evening, highlighted by a much-publicized "golf shot"...

MGS believed to be lost
Posted: Wed, Nov 22 8:04 AM ET (1304 GMT)
NASA's Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) spacecraft has remained out of contract with controllers for over two weeks, and project officials said Tuesday it's...

Chinese satellite reportedly failing
Posted: Tue, Nov 21 1:57 PM ET (1857 GMT)
A Chinese communications satellite launched less than a month had reportedly suffered a serious, and potentially fatal, problem in orbit. According to reports first published...

Astrium, Orbital win satellite orders
Posted: Tue, Nov 21 1:46 PM ET (1846 GMT)
EADS Astrium and Orbital Sciences Corporation have won contracts for the assembly of two commercial communications satellites for different divisions of the same European operator....

Boeing wins Air Force launch contract
Posted: Sat, Nov 18 4:23 PM ET (2123 GMT)
The Air Force awarded Boeing late Friday an EELV launch contract valued at $674 million, a move that clears away one of the final hurdles...

Air Force to take over X-37 project
Posted: Sat, Nov 18 4:15 PM ET (2115 GMT)
The US Air Force announced Friday that it was developing a reusable space vehicle project using technology based on the X-37 program formerly run...

Delta 2 launches GPS satellite
Posted: Fri, Nov 17 8:46 PM ET (0146 GMT)
A Delta 2 rocket launched a new Global Positioning System (GPS) navigation satellite after weather pushed back the launch one day. The Delta 2 lifted...

Dark energy found in early universe
Posted: Fri, Nov 17 7:37 AM ET (1237 GMT)
Dark energy, the mysterious force that is causing the expansion of the universe to accelerate, has existed in the universe for at least nine billion...