NASA budget proposal seeks to cancel WFIRST Posted: Sat, Feb 17 6:20 PM ET (2320 GMT) The administration's 2019 budget proposal for NASA includes plans to cancel a major space telescope. The budget proposal, released Monday, included the cancellation of... China launches Bediou satellites Posted: Sat, Feb 17 6:15 PM ET (2315 GMT) China launched another pair of Beidou navigation satellites early Monday. A Long March 3B rocket lifted off from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center at 12:... SES names new CEO Posted: Sat, Feb 17 6:13 PM ET (2313 GMT) SES has named Steve Collar its next president and CEO. The satellite operator announced Monday that Collar, currently the CEO of SES Networks, will succeed... Progress launch to ISS scrubbed Posted: Sun, Feb 11 9:51 AM ET (1451 GMT) The launch of a Progress cargo spacecraft on a "fast track" trajectory to the International Space Station was scrubbed Sunday less than a minute before... SpaceX launches Falcon Heavy Posted: Sun, Feb 11 9:50 AM ET (1450 GMT) SpaceX successfully launched its Falcon Heavy rocket, placing a demonstration payload, a sports car, into interplanetary space. The Falcon 9 lifted off from the Kennedy... NASA studying commercial crew contingency plans Posted: Sun, Feb 11 9:49 AM ET (1449 GMT) NASA is starting to study a contingency option for maintaining access to the International Space Station that would turn commercial crew test flights into operational... SES joins proposal for C-band spectrum sharing Posted: Sun, Feb 11 9:48 AM ET (1448 GMT) SES is backing a proposal by Intelsat and Intel to share C-band satellite spectrum in the US with terrestrial wireless providers. The company said... Japan launches cubesat on converted sounding rocket Posted: Sun, Feb 11 9:47 AM ET (1447 GMT) Japan's space agency successfully launched a cubesat on a converted sounding rocket. The SS-520-5 rocket lifted off from the Uchinoura Space Center... Russian cosmonauts replace electronics box in record-setting spacewalk Posted: Sat, Feb 3 6:02 PM ET (2302 GMT) Two cosmonauts set the record for the longest Russian spacewalk Friday at the International Space Station. Alexander Misurkin and Anton Shkaplerov spent eight hours and... China launches earthquake prediction satellite Posted: Sat, Feb 3 5:55 PM ET (2255 GMT) China launched an earthquake science satellite and six secondary payloads early Friday. A Long March 2D lifted off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center at... |
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