Landsat 5 returns to service
Posted: Sat, Jan 28 10:45 AM ET (1545 GMT)
An aging remote sensing satellite that went offline in late 2005 has returned to normal operations. The US Geological Survey announced Friday that the Landsat...

Lockheed Martin gains space sales, profits
Posted: Sat, Jan 28 10:27 AM ET (1527 GMT)
Lockheed Martin reported this week increased sales and profits for its space division for the fourth quarter of 2005 and the full year. Lockheed said...

Small exoplanet discovered
Posted: Thu, Jan 26 8:21 AM ET (1321 GMT)
Astronomers have discovered a distant extrasolar planet with a mass only five times that of the Earth. In a paper published in Thursday's issue...

Northrop Grumman reports increased space sales, profit
Posted: Wed, Jan 25 6:49 AM ET (1149 GMT)
The space technology division of aerospace company Northrop Grumman reported increased sales and profits in 2005 over 2004, the company announced Tuesday. The division reported...

Japan launches earth sciences satellite
Posted: Tue, Jan 24 6:45 AM ET (1145 GMT)
An H-2A rocket successfully launched Tuesday an a new earth sciences satellite that will play a key disaster monitoring role. The H-2A lifted...

NASA shuffles center leadership
Posted: Tue, Jan 24 6:33 AM ET (1133 GMT)
NASA announced Monday that the head of the Stennis Space Center had been reassigned to a post at the Kennedy Space Center, to be replaced...

Next ISS mission pushed back
Posted: Mon, Jan 23 7:39 AM ET (1239 GMT)
Russia is postponing the launch of the next crew to the International Space Station because of technical problems with their Soyuz spacecraft, the Itar-Tass...

ALOS launch delayed
Posted: Mon, Jan 23 7:33 AM ET (1233 GMT)
The launch of a remote sensing satellite on a Japanese launch vehicle has been delayed 24 hours because of a minor glitch. The Japanese space...

NASA terminates space science mission
Posted: Sun, Jan 22 9:05 AM ET (1405 GMT)
NASA has ended a six-year-old space science mission after the spacecraft suffered a fatal failure, the space agency announced late Friday. The Imager...

Ames director Hubbard resigns
Posted: Sun, Jan 22 8:48 AM ET (1348 GMT)
Scott Hubbard, director of NASA's Ames Research Center in California, announced last week that he planned to step down in the near future. Hubbard,...