Sirius achieves cash flow breakeven
Posted: Wed, Jan 3 7:52 AM ET (1252 GMT)
Sirius Satellite Radio announced Tuesday that the company has had its first fiscal quarter with positive cash flow since the company's founding, a major...

Ball wins WorldView 2 contract
Posted: Wed, Jan 3 7:44 AM ET (1244 GMT)
Ball Aerospace has won a contract to build the WorldView 2 high-resolution remote sensing satellite for DigitalGlobe, the company announced Tuesday. The spacecraft, planned...

Indian satellite suffers glitch
Posted: Wed, Jan 3 7:28 AM ET (1228 GMT)
An Indian communications satellite went offline for a half-hour Tuesday because of a spacecraft problem linked to solar activity, the Indian space agency ISRO...

Soyuz launches Corot astronomy satellite
Posted: Wed, Dec 27 8:10 PM ET (0110 GMT)
A Soyuz rocket launched on Wednesday a French-built astronomy satellite designed to look for extrasolar planets. The Soyuz 2-1b vehicle lifted off from...

South Korea picks astronaut finalists
Posted: Tue, Dec 26 12:21 PM ET (1721 GMT)
The South Korean government has selected two people to complete for the rights to be that nation's first astronaut. In a ceremony televised across...

Three GLONASS satellites launched
Posted: Tue, Dec 26 12:10 PM ET (1710 GMT)
A Russian Proton rocket launched three GLONASS navigation satellites late Monday. The Proton-K lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 3:18...

Russia launches communications satellite
Posted: Sun, Dec 24 12:30 PM ET (1730 GMT)
A Soyuz rocket launched the first of a new generation of communications satellites on Sunday. The Soyuz 2-1a rocket lifted off from the Plesetsk...

Shuttle lands in Florida
Posted: Fri, Dec 22 7:29 PM ET (0029 GMT)
The space shuttle Discovery overcame poor weather forecasts and successfully landed in Florida late Friday afternoon. Discovery landed at the Kennedy Space Center at 5:...

Alcatel to built Eutelsat W7 satellite
Posted: Fri, Dec 22 12:35 PM ET (1735 GMT)
Alcatel Alenia Space has won a contract to built a new communications satellite for European operator Eutelsat, the company announced Thursday. Alcatel will build the...

Discovery cleared to land Friday, location TBD
Posted: Fri, Dec 22 12:24 PM ET (1724 GMT)
The space shuttle Discovery is ready to return to Earth on Friday afternoon, although mission managers are uncertain which of three landing sites the shuttle...