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ISS crew performs spacewalk, golf shot
Posted: Thu, Nov 23 10:10 AM ET (1510 GMT)
Two members of the crew of the International Space Station performed a spacewalk outside the station Wednesday evening, highlighted by a much-publicized "golf shot"...

MGS believed to be lost
Posted: Wed, Nov 22 8:04 AM ET (1304 GMT)
NASA's Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) spacecraft has remained out of contract with controllers for over two weeks, and project officials said Tuesday it's...

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...



news in brief
Artemis 2 splashes down
Posted: Sat, Apr 11 10:47 AM ET (1447 GMT)

Space Force picks 14 companies for GEO surveillance program
Posted: Sat, Apr 11 10:34 AM ET (1434 GMT)

Report warns of growing counterspace concerns
Posted: Sat, Apr 11 10:32 AM ET (1432 GMT)

news links
Monday, April 20
Musk’s SpaceX threatens to withhold mobile service from Australia
Australian Financial Review — 5:35 am ET (0935 GMT)
Jeff Bezos’s rocket catches up with Elon Musk’s in space rivalry
The Daily Telegraph — 5:30 am ET (0930 GMT)
Blue Origin Rocket Stumbles on First Commercial Mission
Wall Street Journal — 5:29 am ET (0929 GMT)


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