Swift sees first gamma-ray bursts
Posted: Thu, Jan 6 8:37 AM ET (1337 GMT)
NASA's Swift gamma-ray observatory, launched last November, has seen its first gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), astronomers announced Wednesday. The spacecraft's Burst Alert...

ISS oxygen generator breaks down
Posted: Wed, Jan 5 8:45 AM ET (1345 GMT)
A balky oxygen generator on the International Space Station has broken down again, but does not pose an immediate problem for the station's two-...

Arianespace gets launch contracts
Posted: Tue, Jan 4 8:03 PM ET (0103 GMT)
French launch provider Arianespace announced Tuesday that it has won contracts for five launches of European satellites on Ariane and Soyuz vehicles. The company said...

Spirit marks one year on Mars
Posted: Tue, Jan 4 8:57 AM ET (1357 GMT)
NASA celebrated Monday the first anniversary of the landing of the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit, a spacecraft originally expected to operate for just 90 days...

Russia to launch Japanese satellite
Posted: Mon, Jan 3 6:34 AM ET (1134 GMT)
A Russian company announced last week that it has won a contract to launch a Japanese government satellite. Kosmotras, which operates the Dnepr launch vehicle,...

ISS food problems blamed on previous crew
Posted: Thu, Dec 30 8:35 AM ET (1335 GMT)
The food shortage on the International Space Station, which at one point threatened an evacuation of the station, was caused when the previous crew ate...

New shuttle external tank ready
Posted: Wed, Dec 29 9:09 AM ET (1409 GMT)
The first space shuttle external tank that incorporates improvements to avoid the foam shedding that doomed the shuttle Columbia is ready to ship to Florida,...

Ukrainian satellites fail to reach proper orbit
Posted: Tue, Dec 28 12:13 PM ET (1713 GMT)
Russian officials confirmed Monday that a pair of Ukrainian satellites launched Friday on Tsiklon booster failed to reach their proper orbits because of an upper-...

2029 asteroid impact ruled out
Posted: Tue, Dec 28 12:01 PM ET (1701 GMT)
A small asteroid that earned the highest rating ever on an asteroid impact threat scale now poses no risk of colliding with the Earth in...

Russia launches GLONASS satellites
Posted: Mon, Dec 27 12:19 PM ET (1719 GMT)
A Proton rocket successfully launched three GLONASS navigation satellites on Sunday. The Proton-K booster lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 8:...