Water blamed for Ariane 5 failure
Posted: Wed, Jan 9 8:01 AM ET (1301 GMT)
Engineers have traced the failure of an Ariane 5 last year to water in an upper stage engine, Space News reported Tuesday. Tests of the...

News briefs: January 7
Posted: Tue, Jan 8 9:48 AM ET (1448 GMT)
New NASA administrator Sean O'Keefe will begin an introductory tour of the agency's field centers this week with a visit Thursday to the...

Brown dwarf, disk discoveries could lead to exoplanet images
Posted: Tue, Jan 8 8:24 AM ET (1324 GMT)
Images of a brown dwarf orbiting a Sunlike star and a protoplanetary disk around a young star could be key steps towards the first direct...

Yohkoh spacecraft in safe mode
Posted: Mon, Jan 7 10:12 AM ET (1512 GMT)
The Yohkoh spacecraft, a Japanese spacecraft designed to monitor the Sun, went into safe mode last month and may not be recovered, according to some...

News briefs: January 5-6
Posted: Mon, Jan 7 9:40 AM ET (1440 GMT)
NASA and the Air Force have reduced security restrictions at Cape Canaveral for the first time since the September 11 terrorist attacks, according to a...

News briefs: January 4
Posted: Sat, Jan 5 10:40 PM ET (0340 GMT)
Sirius Satellite Radio announced plans this week to raise $158 million in a secondary stock offering. The offering will give the company, which will begin...

News briefs: January 3
Posted: Fri, Jan 4 10:13 AM ET (1513 GMT)
Arianespace may report a loss of up to 50 million euros (US$45 million) for fiscal year 2001, Space News reported Thursday. The company was...

News briefs: January 2
Posted: Thu, Jan 3 10:13 AM ET (1513 GMT)
Shares in XM Satellite Radio fell by nearly 10 percent Wednesday after brokerage Salomon Smith Barney downgraded the stock. Salomon analysts said that the downgrade...

O'Keefe starts work at NASA
Posted: Thu, Jan 3 7:47 AM ET (1247 GMT)
Sean O'Keefe started work at NASA on Wednesday as the agency's new administrator. O'Keefe was officially sworn in as NASA's 10th...

News briefs: December 31-January 1
Posted: Wed, Jan 2 10:05 AM ET (1505 GMT)
Japan may be considering building a manned spacecraft, according to a report published Tuesday in the Japanese newspaper Sankei Shimbun. The vehicle would take 10-...