Stardust gears up for comet flyby
Posted: Wed, Dec 31 7:33 PM ET (0033 GMT)
NASA's Stardust spacecraft is ready to fly past a comet on Friday, project officials confirmed this week. Stardust will pass about 300 km from...

Mars Express adjusts orbit around planet
Posted: Wed, Dec 31 11:04 AM ET (1604 GMT)
ESA's Mars Express spacecraft maneuvered into a polar orbit around the Red Planet on Tuesday, bringing the spacecraft closer to beginning scientific work as...

Spirit tweaks course for Mars
Posted: Wed, Dec 31 10:53 AM ET (1553 GMT)
Spirit, one of NASA's twin Mars Exploration Rovers, adjusted its course late last week to put the spacecraft on final approach for a landing...

Lockheed wins satellite order
Posted: Tue, Dec 30 6:53 PM ET (2353 GMT)
Lockheed Martin announced Tuesday that it has won a contract for a commercial communications satellite from an unspecified customer. The company said it has signed...

China launches space science satellite
Posted: Tue, Dec 30 10:32 AM ET (1532 GMT)
A Long March booster launched a Sino-European space science satellite early Monday on what should be the final launch of 2003. The Long March...

Proton launches Russian communications satellite
Posted: Mon, Dec 29 11:13 AM ET (1613 GMT)
A Proton rocket launched a Russian communications satellite early Monday. The Proton K lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 6 pm EST...

Beagle 2 could have landed in crater
Posted: Mon, Dec 29 11:04 AM ET (1604 GMT)
Beagle 2 project officials raised the possibility Monday that the spacecraft may have landed in a crater that has blocked previous attempts to communicate with...

Soyuz launches Israeli satellite
Posted: Sun, Dec 28 11:12 AM ET (1612 GMT)
A Russian Soyuz rocket launched an Israeli communications satellite on Saturday. The Soyuz-Fregat lifted off from Baikonur, Kazakhstan at 4:30 pm EST Sunday (...

Beagle 2 remains silent
Posted: Sat, Dec 27 12:05 PM ET (1705 GMT)
Latest efforts by spacecraft and ground-based telescopes have failed to detect any signals from the British-built Beagle 2 lander, and project officials now...

Double Star launch delayed
Posted: Sat, Dec 27 11:57 AM ET (1657 GMT)
The launch of the first of a pair of Sino-European space science satellites has been delayed two days because of a launch vehicle problem,...