Ball wins WorldView 2 contract
Posted: Wed, Jan 3 7:44 AM ET (1244 GMT)
Ball Aerospace has won a contract to build the WorldView 2 high-resolution remote sensing satellite for DigitalGlobe, the company announced Tuesday. The spacecraft, planned...

Indian satellite suffers glitch
Posted: Wed, Jan 3 7:28 AM ET (1228 GMT)
An Indian communications satellite went offline for a half-hour Tuesday because of a spacecraft problem linked to solar activity, the Indian space agency ISRO...

Soyuz launches Corot astronomy satellite
Posted: Wed, Dec 27 8:10 PM ET (0110 GMT)
A Soyuz rocket launched on Wednesday a French-built astronomy satellite designed to look for extrasolar planets. The Soyuz 2-1b vehicle lifted off from...

South Korea picks astronaut finalists
Posted: Tue, Dec 26 12:21 PM ET (1721 GMT)
The South Korean government has selected two people to complete for the rights to be that nation's first astronaut. In a ceremony televised across...

Three GLONASS satellites launched
Posted: Tue, Dec 26 12:10 PM ET (1710 GMT)
A Russian Proton rocket launched three GLONASS navigation satellites late Monday. The Proton-K lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 3:18...

Russia launches communications satellite
Posted: Sun, Dec 24 12:30 PM ET (1730 GMT)
A Soyuz rocket launched the first of a new generation of communications satellites on Sunday. The Soyuz 2-1a rocket lifted off from the Plesetsk...

Shuttle lands in Florida
Posted: Fri, Dec 22 7:29 PM ET (0029 GMT)
The space shuttle Discovery overcame poor weather forecasts and successfully landed in Florida late Friday afternoon. Discovery landed at the Kennedy Space Center at 5:...

Alcatel to built Eutelsat W7 satellite
Posted: Fri, Dec 22 12:35 PM ET (1735 GMT)
Alcatel Alenia Space has won a contract to built a new communications satellite for European operator Eutelsat, the company announced Thursday. Alcatel will build the...

Discovery cleared to land Friday, location TBD
Posted: Fri, Dec 22 12:24 PM ET (1724 GMT)
The space shuttle Discovery is ready to return to Earth on Friday afternoon, although mission managers are uncertain which of three landing sites the shuttle...

Kosmos launches German military satellite
Posted: Wed, Dec 20 12:41 PM ET (1741 GMT)
A Russian Kosmos rocket successfully launched the first in a series of German radar imagery satellites on Tuesday. The Kosmos-3M rocket lifted off from...