SpaceShipOne completes fourth drop test
Posted: Mon, Oct 27 6:51 PM ET (2351 GMT)
SpaceShipOne (SS1), a suborbital RLV being developed by Scaled Composites, successfully completed its fourth unpowered drop test earlier this month, correcting a problem noticed in...

ICO purchase of Globalstar could fall through
Posted: Mon, Oct 27 6:42 PM ET (2342 GMT)
Satellite communications company Globalstar said Monday that it has received permission to reopen talks with other potential investors after an earlier agreement with rival ICO...

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...