Chinese satellite reportedly failing
Posted: Tue, Nov 21 1:57 PM ET (1857 GMT)
A Chinese communications satellite launched less than a month had reportedly suffered a serious, and potentially fatal, problem in orbit. According to reports first published...

Astrium, Orbital win satellite orders
Posted: Tue, Nov 21 1:46 PM ET (1846 GMT)
EADS Astrium and Orbital Sciences Corporation have won contracts for the assembly of two commercial communications satellites for different divisions of the same European operator....

Boeing wins Air Force launch contract
Posted: Sat, Nov 18 4:23 PM ET (2123 GMT)
The Air Force awarded Boeing late Friday an EELV launch contract valued at $674 million, a move that clears away one of the final hurdles...

Air Force to take over X-37 project
Posted: Sat, Nov 18 4:15 PM ET (2115 GMT)
The US Air Force announced Friday that it was developing a reusable space vehicle project using technology based on the X-37 program formerly run...

Delta 2 launches GPS satellite
Posted: Fri, Nov 17 8:46 PM ET (0146 GMT)
A Delta 2 rocket launched a new Global Positioning System (GPS) navigation satellite after weather pushed back the launch one day. The Delta 2 lifted...

Dark energy found in early universe
Posted: Fri, Nov 17 7:37 AM ET (1237 GMT)
Dark energy, the mysterious force that is causing the expansion of the universe to accelerate, has existed in the universe for at least nine billion...

Weather delays Delta 2 launch
Posted: Thu, Nov 16 8:22 PM ET (0122 GMT)
Poor weather at Cape Canaveral delayed Thursday's scheduled launch of a GPS satellite on a Delta 2. The Delta 2 7925 was scheduled to...

NASA running out of options to contact MGS
Posted: Tue, Nov 14 8:03 AM ET (1303 GMT)
NASA is enlisting other Mars orbiting spacecraft to try and determine what has gone wrong with an aging orbiter that has not communicated with Earth...

Blue Origin conducts first flight test
Posted: Tue, Nov 14 7:50 AM ET (1250 GMT)
Blue Origin, the secretive commercial space venture established by Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos, performed the first flight test Monday of its suborbital vehicle. The...

Communications lost with Mars Global Surveyor
Posted: Fri, Nov 10 8:15 PM ET (0115 GMT)
NASA has struggled to reestablish communications with the Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) spacecraft over the last week, apparently because of technical problems with the spacecraft...