NASA centers announce buyout plans
Posted: Sat, Dec 4 9:30 AM ET (1430 GMT)
Five NASA centers announced plans Friday to offer buyouts to employees in an effort to cut hundreds of jobs. The Hampton Roads (Va.) Daily Press...

Intelsat resurrects IA-7
Posted: Fri, Dec 3 8:12 PM ET (0112 GMT)
Intelsat Americas-7 (IA-7), a satellite declared dead earlier this week, has resumed partial operations as engineers work to recover the spacecraft, Intelsat announced...

Ariane launch delayed
Posted: Fri, Dec 3 1:55 PM ET (1855 GMT)
The launch of a French reconnaissance satellite next week on an Ariane 5 has been delayed several days, Arianespace reported this week. The Ariane 5G...

Report: NASA, Russia near Soyuz deal
Posted: Fri, Dec 3 7:32 AM ET (1232 GMT)
NASA and the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roskosmos) are near a barter agreement that would permit continued US access to Soyuz spacecraft for missions to...

Mars water results published
Posted: Fri, Dec 3 7:13 AM ET (1213 GMT)
Scientists working on NASA's Mars Exploration Rovers mission have published a series of papers in the journal Science that confirm earlier findings that liquid...

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...