Small fire breaks out at VAB
Posted: Thu, Dec 2 8:09 PM ET (0109 GMT)
A small fire burned at the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) at NASA's Kennedy Space Center early Thursday afternoon, but no injuries or significant damage...

Stellar passage shaped solar system
Posted: Thu, Dec 2 7:14 AM ET (1214 GMT)
Some of the objects in the outer solar system may have originated in other solar systems, according to research published in the current issue of...

Russia reveals details about Soyuz successor
Posted: Wed, Dec 1 8:13 AM ET (1313 GMT)
A Russian company has revealed new details about a spacecraft it hopes will succeed the venerable Soyuz spacecraft in carrying crews to the International Space...

GAO dismisses NextView protest
Posted: Wed, Dec 1 8:03 AM ET (1303 GMT)
The General Accounting Office has dismissed a protest by a losing bidder for one of the government's NextView commercial remote sensing satellite awards. ORBIMAGE,...

IA-7 satellite fails
Posted: Mon, Nov 29 1:37 PM ET (1837 GMT)
A communications satellite recently purchased by Intelsat failed in orbit on Sunday, potentially jeopardizing the sale of the company to private investors. Intelsat reported late...

ISS crew moves Soyuz spacecraft
Posted: Mon, Nov 29 8:20 AM ET (1320 GMT)
The two-man crew of the International Space Station took a brief trip Monday morning, moving a Soyuz spacecraft from one docking port to another....

da Vinci delays launch attempt to January
Posted: Sat, Nov 27 9:17 AM ET (1417 GMT)
The da Vinci Project, which had been one of the leading contenders for the Ansari X Prize, has pushed back a launch attempt of its...

ESA, EU begin work on unified space program
Posted: Fri, Nov 26 3:21 PM ET (2021 GMT)
Representatives of the European Space Agency and the European Union met in Brussels this week to begin work on the foundations of a unified European...

Cablevision to buy five Lockheed satellites
Posted: Thu, Nov 25 9:37 AM ET (1437 GMT)
Cablevision, in a bid to expand its foothold in the satellite TV market, announced this week that it plans to buy five Lockheed Martin satellites....

Two NASA launches delayed
Posted: Thu, Nov 25 9:09 AM ET (1409 GMT)
NASA announced Wednesday that it has pushed back the launches of two missions into early 2005. Deep Impact, originally scheduled to lift off atop a...