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Soyuz returns to Earth
Posted: Sat, Apr 21 11:31 AM ET (1531 GMT)
A Soyuz spacecraft carrying two ISS crew members and a space tourist landed in Kazakhstan on Saturday. The Soyuz TMA-9 spacecraft landed safely on...

Two dead in JSC shooting
Posted: Fri, Apr 20 8:36 PM ET (0036 GMT)
A gunman stormed into a building at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston Friday afternoon and killed one hostage before killing himself. According to...

Soyuz landing delayed a day
Posted: Thu, Apr 19 8:15 AM ET (1215 GMT)
NASA announced Wednesday that the return of a Soyuz spacecraft from the ISS had been delayed a day because of landing site conditions. The Soyuz...

Dnepr launches cluster of small satellites
Posted: Thu, Apr 19 8:08 AM ET (1208 GMT)
A converted Russian ICBM launched over a dozen small satellites for a variety of countries on Tuesday. The Dnepr rocketed lifted off from the BAikonur...

NASA plans ambitious shuttle launch schedule
Posted: Thu, Apr 19 7:59 AM ET (1159 GMT)
NASA announced this week a revised schedule for shuttle launches that calls for six shuttle missions in less than 12 months. The shuttle schedule was...

Report: NASA paid settlement to STS-107 families
Posted: Sun, Apr 15 12:21 PM ET (1621 GMT)
NASA gave $26.6 million to the families of the astronauts killed on the STS-107 shuttle mission in 2003, the Orlando Sentinel reported Sunday....

China launches navigation satellite
Posted: Sat, Apr 14 9:40 AM ET (1340 GMT)
A Long March rocket launched a Chinese navigation satellite early Saturday, the second Chinese launch in less than a week. The Long March 3A rocket...

MGS failure caused by software glitch
Posted: Sat, Apr 14 9:25 AM ET (1325 GMT)
A software glitch, undetected in testing on the ground, caused the demise of NASA's Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) spacecraft last November, an investigation board...

Boisvert named new head of CSA
Posted: Fri, Apr 13 12:32 PM ET (1632 GMT)
The former CEO of a Canadian satellite operator has beem tapped to become the new president of the Canadian Space Agency. The Canadian government announced...

China launches oceanographic satellite
Posted: Thu, Apr 12 9:38 AM ET (1338 GMT)
China launched its second ocean sciences satellite Wednesday, according to state media reports. A Long March 2C lifted off from the Taiyuan launch center at...



news in brief

SpaceX launches Indonesia communications satellite
Posted: Sun, Sep 14 4:07 AM ET (0807 GMT)

Soyuz launches Progress cargo spacecraft to ISS
Posted: Sun, Sep 14 4:06 AM ET (0806 GMT)

news links
Thursday, September 18
No, SpaceX won't become the 4th US mobile operator
FierceWireless — 11:03 pm ET (0303 GMT)
Space Force Adds Unit Tying Acquisition to Test and Training
Air and Space Forces Magazine — 10:59 pm ET (0259 GMT)
US and UK take part in first-ever coordinated satellite maneuver
Washington Examiner — 10:59 pm ET (0259 GMT)
Blue Origin completes 35th New Shepard mission
KTSM-TV El Paso — 10:57 pm ET (0257 GMT)


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