NASA selects COTS finalists
Posted: Thu, May 11 7:15 AM ET (1115 GMT)
NASA has tapped six companies as finalists for a $500-million program to develop commercial transportation services for the International Space Station. According to media...

Venus Express enters final orbit
Posted: Wed, May 10 8:35 AM ET (1235 GMT)
ESA's Venus Express spacecraft has entered its final orbit around Venus, even as spacecraft engineers troubleshoot a problem with an instrument on the spacecraft....

Sea Launch wins contracts
Posted: Wed, May 10 8:27 AM ET (1227 GMT)
The multinational Sea Launch venture has won contracts this week for the launch of two commercial communications satellites. Sea Launch announced Monday that it has...

NASA, ISRO sign lunar mission agreement
Posted: Tue, May 9 8:28 AM ET (1228 GMT)
NASA will provide two instruments for India's first lunar mission under an agreement the heads of the two space agencies signed Tuesday. Under the...

First multimillion-dollar Centennial Challenge announced
Posted: Sat, May 6 11:44 AM ET (1544 GMT)
NASA and the X Prize Foundation announced Friday that the two will jointly run the agency's first multimillion-dollar competition for its Centennial Challenges...

NASA to skip shuttle tanking test
Posted: Sat, May 6 11:30 AM ET (1530 GMT)
NASA shuttle managers said Thursday that they don't plan to conduct a test of the shuttle's external tank to test some balky sensors,...

Titan "seas" made of sand
Posted: Fri, May 5 12:17 PM ET (1617 GMT)
Dark areas on the surface of Saturn's moon Titan previously thought to be liquid hydrocarbon oceans are in fact vast areas of sand dunes,...

Russia launches military satellite
Posted: Thu, May 4 10:41 AM ET (1441 GMT)
A Russian Soyuz booster launched what is believed to be a reconnaissance satellite for the Russian military on Wednesday. The Soyuz-U booster lifted off...

SS/Loral, Astrium announce satellite contracts
Posted: Thu, May 4 10:34 AM ET (1434 GMT)
Space Systems/Loral (SS/L) and EADS Astrium have won contracts for commercial communications satellites, the two companies announced this week. SS/L announced Wednesday...

Next ISS crew named
Posted: Wed, May 3 7:39 AM ET (1139 GMT)
NASA announced Tuesday that it has named two astronauts for the next long-duration crew for the International Space Station, who will join a Russian...