Contact lost with Japanese satellite
Posted: Sun, Oct 26 12:41 PM ET (1741 GMT)
Ground controllers have lost contact with a Japanese remote sensing satellite launched last year, the Japanese space agency JAXA reported Saturday. According to a JAXA...

Bankruptcy court approves sale of Loral satellites to Intelsat
Posted: Sat, Oct 25 1:40 PM ET (1740 GMT)
A bankruptcy court approved Friday the planned sale of five Loral satellites to Intelsat. Under the agreement, Loral will sell to Intelsat the Telstar 5,...

NASA, Russia downplay ISS problems
Posted: Sat, Oct 25 1:29 PM ET (1729 GMT)
Representatives of both NASA and Rosaviakosmos, including the crew of the International Space Station, played down reports Thursday of problems monitoring the conditions on board...

Astrium wins contract for ESA weather satellite
Posted: Fri, Oct 24 8:50 AM ET (1250 GMT)
EADS Astrium will build a satellite for ESA to track wind patterns in the Earth's atmosphere, the company reported Thursday. Astrium will build the...

Powerful solar storm to reach Earth Friday
Posted: Thu, Oct 23 8:42 PM ET (0042 GMT)
A powerful solar storm erupted on the Sun Wednesday and is expected to reach the Earth by Friday with the potential to generate aurorae and...

Report: NASA experts opposed latest station mission
Posted: Thu, Oct 23 8:59 AM ET (1259 GMT)
Several space station officials within NASA disapproved of plans to send a new crew to the International Space Station this month, the Washington Post reported...

Bankruptcy court approves Loral satellite manufacturing contracts
Posted: Thu, Oct 23 8:29 AM ET (1229 GMT)
A federal bankruptcy court judge has approved plans by Space Systems/Loral (SS/L) to finish construction of one satellite and start work on three...

Boeing cancels Spacehab contract
Posted: Thu, Oct 23 8:17 AM ET (1217 GMT)
Boeing has cancelled a payload processing contract it had with Spacehab subsidiary Astrotech, Spacehab announced Wednesday. The contact, which went through 2010, covered commercial payload...

EADS, ILS win Arabsat contracts
Posted: Tue, Oct 21 8:26 PM ET (0026 GMT)
Middle Eastern satellite operator Arabsat announced Tuesday that it will purchase two new communications satellites from EADS Astrium and launch them on Protons provided by...

Sea Launch plans Baikonur launches of Zenit 3SL
Posted: Tue, Oct 21 8:07 PM ET (0007 GMT)
The multinational Sea Launch venture announced Monday that it will go ahead with plans to launch its Zenit 3SL booster from Baikonur in a bid...