News briefs: April 8
Posted: Tue, Apr 9 11:32 AM ET (1532 GMT)
Boeing plans to resume orbit-raising maneuvers for the TDRS-I satellite next week, Aerospace Daily reported Monday. Engineers at Boeing are still studying a...

Business briefs: April 8
Posted: Tue, Apr 9 11:19 AM ET (1519 GMT)
ORBIMAGE announced Monday that it was filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection as part of a prepared restructuring plan. The commercial remote sensing company said...

Atlantis lifts off
Posted: Mon, Apr 8 8:33 PM ET (0033 GMT)
The space shuttle Atlantis lifted off Monday afternoon on a mission to the International Space Station. Atlantis launched at 4:44:19 pm EDT (2044:...

Shuttle cleared for Monday launch attempt
Posted: Mon, Apr 8 10:21 AM ET (1421 GMT)
Technicians completed repairs to a hydrogen vent line over the weekend, clearing the way for an attempt to launch the shuttle Atlantis Monday afternoon. Workers...

News briefs: April 6-7
Posted: Mon, Apr 8 9:02 AM ET (1302 GMT)
Steven Tyler, lead singer of the rock group Aerosmith, is the latest person to express an interest in space tourism. The British news service Ananova,...

Spacecraft reenters over Tibet
Posted: Sun, Apr 7 1:06 PM ET (1706 GMT)
A NASA spacecraft reentered late Saturday night over southern Tibet, NASA announced Sunday morning. The High Energy Transient Experiment 1 (HETE-1) spacecraft, along with...

Controversy over Martian chlorophyll finding
Posted: Sat, Apr 6 11:39 AM ET (1639 GMT)
Scientists have reportedly found traces of chlorophyll on the Martian surface in Mars Pathfinder data, but another report says the findings are "overstated". The BBC...

News briefs: April 5
Posted: Sat, Apr 6 10:32 AM ET (1532 GMT)
Space tourist Mark Shuttleworth has been approved to be a part of the Soyuz crew that will fly to the International Space Station late this...

Business briefs: April 5
Posted: Sat, Apr 6 10:12 AM ET (1512 GMT)
Eutelsat announced Friday that it has signed a contract with Alcatel to purchase a refurbished satellite for launch later this year on the inaugural Delta...

Shuttle launch pushed back to Monday
Posted: Fri, Apr 5 11:23 PM ET (0423 GMT)
NASA announced Friday that it would delay the launch of the shuttle Atlantis an additional day, to Monday, to allow more time to complete repairs...