News briefs: May 13
Posted: Tue, May 14 9:02 AM ET (1302 GMT)
Arianespace has won two new launch contracts, SPACEandTECH announced late Monday. Those contracts are for the launches of Agrani 2 and DIRECTV 7S in 2003...

News briefs: May 11-12
Posted: Mon, May 13 10:13 AM ET (1413 GMT)
NASA has turned to online auction site eBay to look for vintage hardware no longer available from other sources, the New York Times reported Sunday....

US loans Japan weather satellite
Posted: Mon, May 13 9:08 AM ET (1308 GMT)
The United States is loaning a backup weather satellite to Japan to replace an existing satellite on the verge of failure, the AP reported Saturday....

Roof collapses at Baikonur hangar
Posted: Sun, May 12 3:45 PM ET (1945 GMT)
As many as eight people are feared dead after a roof of a hangar at the Baikonur Cosmodrome collapsed early Sunday. Eight people were working...

News briefs: May 10
Posted: Sat, May 11 12:09 PM ET (1609 GMT)
The Jet Propulsion Laboratory announced Friday that it has selected two concepts of a future planet-hunting spacecraft for future study. The two concepts for...

News briefs: May 9
Posted: Fri, May 10 10:14 AM ET (1414 GMT)
NASA administrator Sean O'Keefe told members of a Senate subcommittee Wednesday that the purposes of all of NASA's 11 facilities are under review,...

Atmosphere acts as heat shield for solar storms
Posted: Fri, May 10 8:58 AM ET (1258 GMT)
New data from a NASA spacecraft confirm that a region of the Earth's upper atmosphere acts as a heat shield, absorbing energy from solar...

News briefs: May 8
Posted: Thu, May 9 11:49 AM ET (1549 GMT)
The German space agency DLR has asked NASA administrator Sean O'Keefe to clarify his position regarding the fate of the X-38, a prototype...

Gregory nominated to be NASA deputy administrator
Posted: Thu, May 9 9:04 AM ET (1304 GMT)
The White House and NASA announced Wednesday that President Bush has nominated Frederick D. Gregory to become deputy administrator, the number two job at NASA....

News briefs: May 7
Posted: Wed, May 8 10:06 AM ET (1406 GMT)
Mark Shuttleworth will not be able to buy the Soyuz spacecraft he returned to Earth in, Russian officials said Tuesday. Shuttleworth had expressed an interest...