Major solar storm to reach Earth Wednesday
Posted: Wed, Oct 29 7:55 AM ET (1255 GMT)
One of the biggest solar flares ever recorded erupted on the Sun Tuesday, triggering a potentially huge solar storm scheduled to reach the Earth Wednesday....

Congressmen ask NASA to put OSP on hold
Posted: Tue, Oct 28 2:37 PM ET (1937 GMT)
Two leading members of Congress have asked NASA to stop further work on the Orbital Space Plane (OSP) program until the nation's space policy...

Soyuz lands safely
Posted: Tue, Oct 28 2:22 PM ET (1922 GMT)
A Soyuz spacecraft carrying three astronauts safely landed in Kazakhstan late Monday although not without an apparent problem during undocking from the International Space Station....

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...