Intelsat shares rise after IPO
Posted: Fri, Apr 19 2:00 PM ET (1800 GMT)
Commercial communications satellite operator Intelsat raised less money than expected in its initial public offering (IPO) of stock on Thursday, but shares rose in the...

Technical problem scrubs Antares launch
Updated: Thu, Apr 18 9:39 PM ET (0139 GMT)
Originally Posted: Thu, Apr 18 10:08 AM ET (1408 GMT)
A prematurely-disconnected cable scrubbed the first launch of Orbital Sciences Corporation's Antares rocket from Virginia on Wednesday. The company had planned to launch...

Proton launches Canadian satellite
Posted: Tue, Apr 16 8:26 AM ET (1226 GMT)
A Proton launch successfully launched a communications satellite for a Canadian company on Tuesday. The Proton M lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan...

Russian president pledges more than $50 billion for spaceflight
Posted: Sun, Apr 14 11:04 AM ET (1504 GMT)
Russian president Vladimir Putin said Friday that he would seek more than $50 billion through 2020 to support the nation's space exploration efforts. Putin,...

NASA selects missions to study Earth's upper atmosphere
Posted: Sat, Apr 13 10:23 AM ET (1423 GMT)
NASA announced late Friday the selection of two missions, a spacecraft and a commercially hosted payload, to study the Earth's upper atmosphere. The Ionospheric...

Mars images show evidence for Soviet-era lander
Posted: Fri, Apr 12 10:35 AM ET (1435 GMT)
Space enthusiasts coming through images from a NASA orbiter have found evidence of what they believe is a 1970s Soviet spacecraft that lost contact immediately...

NASA $17.7-billion budget proposal calls for 2014 includes asteroid mission work
Posted: Thu, Apr 11 9:27 AM ET (1327 GMT)
The Obama Administration released its fiscal year 2014 budget proposal on Wednesday, requesting $17.7 billion for NASA and including funding to begin work on...

RADARSAT-1 malfunctions
Posted: Thu, Apr 11 9:09 AM ET (1309 GMT)
A Canadian radar imaging satellite that has long exceeded its planned lifetime has malfunctioned and may not be recovered, the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) reported...

Boeing announces smallsat product line
Posted: Tue, Apr 9 7:06 AM ET (1106 GMT)
Boeing unveiled Monday a new line of small satellites, some as small as 4 kilograms, designed for civil and military customers. The Phantom Phoenix spacecraft...

Antares rocket rolled to launch pad
Posted: Mon, Apr 8 6:14 AM ET (1014 GMT)
The first Antares rocket moved to its Virginia launch pad early Saturday in preparation for its launch later this month. The Antares rocket rolled horizontally...