ATK to buy MDA space business
Posted: Wed, Jan 9 8:03 AM ET (1303 GMT)
Alliant Techsystems (ATK) will buy the space business of Canadian company MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates (MDA) for $1.3 billion, the companies announced Tuesday. The...

NASA outlines Hubble repair plans
Posted: Wed, Jan 9 7:46 AM ET (1246 GMT)
A shuttle mission scheduled for launch next year will allow the Hubble Space Telescope to remain in operation for at least five more years, agency...

Eutelsat, ViaSat order Ka-band satellites
Posted: Tue, Jan 8 7:50 AM ET (1250 GMT)
European satellite operator Eutelsat and ViaSat, a US company best known as the maker of satellite ground equipment, each announced the order of Ka-band...

Microsoft money to support telescope development
Posted: Sat, Jan 5 10:21 AM ET (1521 GMT)
The co-founder of Microsoft and a former company executive who flew in space last year contributed $30 million to a major new telescope project...

Contact lost with South Korean spacecraft
Posted: Sat, Jan 5 10:08 AM ET (1508 GMT)
Ground controllers have lost contact with South Korea's first multipurpose satellite, Korean officials said this week. The Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI) lost contact...

Shuttle launch no earlier than January 24
Posted: Fri, Jan 4 7:27 AM ET (1227 GMT)
NASA shuttle managers said Thursday that they hope to be able to launch Atlantis as early as January 24, but warned that technical and weather...

Astronomers discover youngest exoplanet
Posted: Thu, Jan 3 7:47 AM ET (1247 GMT)
German astronomers reported this week that they have discovered the youngest extrasolar planet found to date, a world that is still embedded within the protoplanetary...

Deep Impact spacecraft flies past Earth
Posted: Wed, Jan 2 7:01 AM ET (1201 GMT)
NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft flew past Earth on New Year's Eve, a maneuver that puts the spacecraft on course for an extended mission...

Atlantis launch to slip further
Posted: Fri, Dec 28 11:10 AM ET (1610 GMT)
Shuttle managers said Thursday that the launch of the shuttle Atlantis would likely slip at least a few days past its planned January 10 date...

President signs NASA budget bill
Posted: Fri, Dec 28 10:58 AM ET (1558 GMT)
President Bush on Wednesday signed an appropriations bill that gives NASA almost exactly what the White House requested for the agency in 2008, but without...