Report: UK planning own science satellite
Posted: Mon, Mar 24 8:27 PM ET (0127 GMT)
Great Britain is planning to build a earth sciences satellite independent of the European Space Agency, the BBC reported Monday. The Earthshine satellite would measure...

ILS announces Proton launch date, new launch order
Posted: Mon, Mar 24 8:07 PM ET (0107 GMT)
International Launch Services said Monday that it has scheduled the next commercial launch of a Proton booster for April 29. ILS said a Proton K,...

NASA Advisory Council expresses skepticism about OSP
Posted: Sun, Mar 23 3:51 PM ET (2051 GMT)
An outside committee that advises NASA said last week that they believe plans to pursue the Orbital Space Plane (OSP) could be a step backwards...

NASA reorganizes shuttle investigation team
Posted: Sat, Mar 22 1:19 PM ET (1819 GMT)
NASA announced Friday afternoon that it had reorganized its internal team investigating the loss of the space shuttle Columbia, disbanding a controversial group that included...

China: no immediate plans for Mars missions
Posted: Sat, Mar 22 1:07 PM ET (1807 GMT)
China's space program has no plans to carry out unmanned missions to Mars before the middle of the next decade, Chinese officials have been...

Boeing wins Malaysian satellite contract
Posted: Fri, Mar 21 8:06 PM ET (0106 GMT)
Malaysian communications satellite operator Binariang Satellite Systems Sdn. Bhd. announced Friday that it will purchase a communications satellite from Boeing Satellite Systems. Binariang awarded Boeing...

NASA selects aurora science mission
Posted: Fri, Mar 21 7:50 PM ET (0050 GMT)
NASA announced Thursday that it has selected a mission to study the geomagnetic storms that create aurorae. The Time History of Events and Macroscale Interactions...

Columbia data recorder recovered
Posted: Thu, Mar 20 10:41 AM ET (1541 GMT)
Searchers have found a data recorder from the shuttle Columbia that could provide key data about the shuttle in its final minutes. The orbital experiments...

Gamma-ray burst marks death of giant star
Posted: Thu, Mar 20 10:31 AM ET (1531 GMT)
Astronomers who observed a gamma-ray burst (GRB) from its early stages believe that the burst marks the collapse of a giant star into a...

ILS wins Anik launch contract
Posted: Wed, Mar 19 8:19 PM ET (0119 GMT)
International Launch Services (ILS) announced Wednesday that it has won a contract to launch a communications satellite for Telesat Canada. ILS will launch Telesat Canada'...