Ariane, Atlas win commercial launch orders
Posted: Tue, Sep 10 9:40 AM ET (1340 GMT)
Arianespace announced Monday five new contracts for launches of commercial satellites on its workhorse Ariane 5 rocket, while Lockheed Martin announced a rare commercial launch...

Strike ends at ALMA Observatory
Posted: Tue, Sep 10 9:21 AM ET (1321 GMT)
A radio telescope in Chile restarted normal operations on Monday after the telescope's operator reached an agreement with striking workers. The Atacama Large Millimeter/...

Minotaur launches LADEE lunar mission
Posted: Sat, Sep 7 11:35 AM ET (1535 GMT)
A Minotaur 5 successfully launched a NASA lunar orbiter spacecraft Friday night, although project officials said the spacecraft is suffering from what they consider to...

SpaceShipTwo performs second powered test flight
Posted: Fri, Sep 6 8:03 AM ET (1203 GMT)
Virgin Galactic flew its SpaceShipTwo suborbital vehicle on its second powered flight Thursday as the company claimed it was on track to bring commercial operations...

HTV departs space station
Posted: Thu, Sep 5 6:55 AM ET (1055 GMT)
A Japanese cargo spacecraft unberthed from the International Space Station on Wednesday, less than a month after arriving at the station. The station's robotic...

NASA narrows list of landing sites for 2016 Mars mission
Posted: Thu, Sep 5 6:41 AM ET (1041 GMT)
Four locations in the same region of Mars are finalists as the landing site for NASA's next Mars lander, the agency announced Wednesday. Scientists...

China launches three satellites
Posted: Tue, Sep 3 6:28 AM ET (1028 GMT)
A Long March rocket placed three satellites into orbit Monday for what Western observers believe is a military mission. The Long March 4C rocket lifted...

Zenit returns to flight with Amos-4 launch
Posted: Sun, Sep 1 10:56 AM ET (1456 GMT)
A Zenit-3 rocket successfully launched an Israeli communications satellite Saturday night on the first mission of a Zenit rocket since a Sea Launch failure...

Ariane launches two satellites
Posted: Fri, Aug 30 8:07 AM ET (1207 GMT)
An Ariane 5 rocket successfully launched communications satellites for a European-Middle Eastern joint venture and for India on Thursday. The Ariane 5 ECA lifted...

Former JPL director Murray dies
Posted: Fri, Aug 30 7:50 AM ET (1150 GMT)
Bruce Murray, former director of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and a co-founder of The Planetary Society, passed away Thursday at the age of 81...