Orbital reports 2nd quarter loss
Posted: Wed, Jul 23 7:40 AM ET (1140 GMT)
As expected, Orbital Sciences Corporation recorded a small loss in its second quarter because of poor performance by an electronics unit as well as a...

Kistler Aerospace files for bankruptcy protection
Posted: Tue, Jul 22 6:46 PM ET (2246 GMT)
Kistler Aerospace Corporation, a startup company that tried to develop a reusable launch vehicle in the 1990s, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection last week,...

House committee approves NASA budget, investigation funds
Posted: Tue, Jul 22 6:27 PM ET (2227 GMT)
The appropriations committee of the US House of Representatives approved on Monday a $15.5 billion budget for NASA in fiscal year 2004 as well...

FUSE completes "brain transplant" to keep spacecraft operating
Posted: Tue, Jul 22 10:48 AM ET (1448 GMT)
Engineers have successfully completed a software upload to NASA's Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer (FUSE) spacecraft to preemptively deal with possible problems with the spacecraft'...

Telecom firms strike satellite TV deals
Posted: Tue, Jul 22 10:33 AM ET (1433 GMT)
Two major US telephone companies announced deals on Monday that will allow them to sell satellite TV services from DirecTV and EchoStar. Under one agreement,...

Hawaiian judge blocks NASA telescope plans
Posted: Mon, Jul 21 8:27 PM ET (0027 GMT)
A federal judge in Hawaii last week blocked a NASA proposal to construct a series of smaller telescopes around the Keck Observatory until the agency...

Poll: majority wants shuttle grounded until new goals set
Posted: Sun, Jul 20 1:13 PM ET (1713 GMT)
A poll published Sunday by the Houston Chronicle reveals that a majority of Americans want to keep the space shuttle grounded until NASA redefines the...

Study: fewer asteroids hit Earth's surface
Posted: Sun, Jul 20 12:57 PM ET (1657 GMT)
Fewer large asteroids will strike the surface of the Earth than previously thought because they will instead break up in the atmosphere, according to a...

X-43 failure blamed on poor modeling
Posted: Sat, Jul 19 3:34 PM ET (1934 GMT)
A NASA investigation into the loss of a hypersonic research vehicle two years ago concluded that poor modeling of the combination of the vehicle and...

Status of ISS cosmonaut's wedding plans uncertain
Posted: Sat, Jul 19 3:24 PM ET (1924 GMT)
Plans by Russian cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko to get married while still on the International Space Station may or may not have been put on hold,...