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Eutelsat to lay off 10% of workforce
Posted: Sun, Nov 3 8:26 AM ET (1326 GMT)
Eutelsat is planning to lay off about 10% of its workforce as part of cost-cutting measures. The Paris-based satellite operator said it will...

Boeing, SpaceX prep for commercial crew abort tests
Posted: Sun, Nov 3 8:25 AM ET (1325 GMT)
Boeing and SpaceX will perform tests of commercial crew abort systems in the next week. A NASA official said Wednesday the pad abort test of...

SES revenues decline
Posted: Sun, Nov 3 8:24 AM ET (1324 GMT)
SES said its revenues fell in the first three quarters as the year as new data services failed to make up for declining video services....

Eutelsat satellite suffers anomaly after launch
Posted: Sat, Oct 26 4:49 PM ET (2049 GMT)
A Eutelsat communications satellite launched earlier this month has a solar array problem. Eutelsat said Thursday it is investigating an "incident" with one of two...

Virgin Galactic completes merger
Posted: Sat, Oct 26 4:48 PM ET (2048 GMT)
Virgin Galactic will become a publicly traded company next week as it completes a merger. Shareholders in Social Capital Hedosophia (SCH), a special-purpose acquisition...

Blue Origin forms "national team" to compete for NASA lunar lander contract
Posted: Sat, Oct 26 4:46 PM ET (2046 GMT)
Blue Origin announced Tuesday it is joining forces with three other companies on a "national team" to propose a lunar lander to NASA. Blue Origin...

China launches classified satellite
Posted: Sat, Oct 19 6:35 PM ET (2235 GMT)
China launched a secretive satellite Thursday. A Long March 3B lifted off from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center at 11:21 am EDT (1521 GMT)...

ESA seeks nearly $14 billion over three years
Posted: Sat, Oct 19 6:34 PM ET (2234 GMT)
The European Space agency will seek nearly $14 billion over the next three years from its member states next month. ESA Director-General Jan Woerner...

InSight makes progress with heat flow probe
Posted: Sat, Oct 19 6:33 PM ET (2233 GMT)
An instrument on NASA's Mars InSight lander has made new progress burrowing into the Martian surface. NASA said Thursday that the probe, or "mole,"...

Boeing plans December orbital test flight of Starliner
Posted: Sat, Oct 12 8:08 PM ET (0008 GMT)
Boeing plans to launch an uncrewed test of its commercial crew vehicle in mid-December. A company executive said Wednesday the Orbital Flight Test of...



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)

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