New Mexico voters approve spaceport tax
Posted: Fri, Apr 6 8:29 AM ET (1229 GMT)
Voters in a southern New Mexico county approved this week a tax increase that will be used to help finance the development of a commercial...

Arianespace to launch Optus D3
Posted: Thu, Apr 5 8:23 AM ET (1223 GMT)
Arianespace announced Wednesday that it has won a contract to launch a new communications satellite for Australian operator Optus in 2009. Arianespace will use either...

Solar storms disrupt GPS signals
Posted: Thu, Apr 5 8:18 AM ET (1218 GMT)
A solar storm last year created enough radio noise to disrupt signals used by the Global Positioning System (GPS) navigation network, scientists announced Wednesday. Powerful...

ATK to acquire Swales Aerospace
Posted: Wed, Apr 4 8:07 AM ET (1207 GMT)
Alliant Techsystems (ATK) announced Tuesday that it has reached an agreement to acquire Swales Aerospace, a manufacturer of small satellites and subsystems. Terms of the...

Intelsat switches two satellites to Arianespace
Posted: Wed, Apr 4 7:49 AM ET (1149 GMT)
Satellite operator Intelsat has moved the planned launch of two communications satellites from Land Launch to Arianespace to ensure that the spacecraft get into orbit...

Congressmen call for removal of NASA IG
Posted: Wed, Apr 4 7:37 AM ET (1137 GMT)
Key Democratic members of the House and Senate this week called for the Bush Administration to remove the inspector general of NASA after a report...

Orbital wins satellite order from Optus
Posted: Fri, Mar 30 8:21 AM ET (1221 GMT)
Orbital Sciences Corporation announced Thursday that it was won an order for commercial communications satellite from Australian company Optus. The Optus D3 satellite will be...

Soyuz spacecraft repositioned at ISS
Posted: Fri, Mar 30 8:15 AM ET (1215 GMT)
The crew of the International Space Station boarded a Soyuz spacecraft late Thursday and moved the spacecraft from one docking port to another. The two...

Falcon 1 declared operational
Posted: Thu, Mar 29 2:07 PM ET (1807 GMT)
SpaceX announced this week that their Falcon 1 small launch vehicle is now ready to enter service, despite a test flight last week that was...

Progress undocks from ISS
Posted: Wed, Mar 28 8:24 AM ET (1224 GMT)
A Progress cargo spacecraft that had been at the ISS for nearly half a year undocked from the station and burned up in the atmosphere...