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News Corp., Liberty to pursue separate DirecTV deals
Posted: Wed, Feb 26 10:36 AM ET (1536 GMT)
News Corporation and Liberty Media no longer plan to cooperate on a deal to purchase satellite television provider DirecTV, but instead will work on separate...

Orbital reports profit for quarter, year
Posted: Wed, Feb 26 10:23 AM ET (1523 GMT)
Orbital Sciences Corporation recorded a profit for both the fourth quarter of 2002 and the full year, according to financial statements released by the company...

Investigators: orbital debris likely from shuttle
Posted: Wed, Feb 26 8:49 AM ET (1349 GMT)
Members of an independent panel investigating the loss of the space shuttle Columbia now believe that a piece of orbital debris that was tracked by...

NASA ends communication with Pioneer 10
Posted: Tue, Feb 25 8:28 PM ET (0128 GMT)
NASA announced late Tuesday that it plans no further efforts to communicate with the Pioneer 10 spacecraft, launched nearly 31 years ago and currently at...

Report: shuttle crew could have survived up to a minute after breakup
Posted: Tue, Feb 25 8:18 PM ET (0118 GMT)
The crew of the space shuttle Columbia could have survived for up to a minute after the orbiter started breaking up, MSNBC reported. An analysis...

NASA investigating shuttle tile repair technologies
Posted: Tue, Feb 25 9:49 AM ET (1449 GMT)
NASA is looking at ways future space shuttle crews could repair damaged tiles while in orbit, several publications reported Tuesday. NASA officials said they were...

New search for additional Pluto moons planned
Posted: Mon, Feb 24 8:24 PM ET (0124 GMT)
Planetary scientists plan to carry out a telescope search in the near future for any additional moons of the distant planet Pluto. Officials with the...

Possible shuttle debris found in Nevada
Posted: Mon, Feb 24 8:42 AM ET (1342 GMT)
Search teams found several metal fragments in the Nevada desert this weekend that could come from the space shuttle Columbia. The searchers, combing the desert...

Boeing commercial satellite chief resigns
Posted: Sat, Feb 22 10:38 AM ET (1538 GMT)
Randy Brinkley, president of Boeing Satellite Systems (BSS), resigned on Friday after a two-year effort to right the struggling satellite manufacturer. Boeing did not...

Additional tank debris may have hit shuttle
Posted: Sat, Feb 22 10:27 AM ET (1527 GMT)
Up to three chunks of debris from the external tank may have struck Columbia's left wing during liftoff, according to evidence NASA released Friday....



news in brief
MDA Space to buy Blue Canyon Technologies
Posted: Sat, Jun 20 10:18 AM ET (1418 GMT)

Private equity firm buys Exolaunch
Posted: Sat, Jun 20 10:16 AM ET (1416 GMT)

NASA selects space science mission
Posted: Sat, Jun 20 10:14 AM ET (1414 GMT)

news links
Sunday, June 21
Stars of physics descend on Westminster to halt catastrophic funding cuts
Royal Aeronautical Society — 11:32 am ET (1532 GMT)


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