NASA plans ambitious shuttle launch schedule
Posted: Thu, Apr 19 7:59 AM ET (1159 GMT)
NASA announced this week a revised schedule for shuttle launches that calls for six shuttle missions in less than 12 months. The shuttle schedule was...

Report: NASA paid settlement to STS-107 families
Posted: Sun, Apr 15 12:21 PM ET (1621 GMT)
NASA gave $26.6 million to the families of the astronauts killed on the STS-107 shuttle mission in 2003, the Orlando Sentinel reported Sunday....

China launches navigation satellite
Posted: Sat, Apr 14 9:40 AM ET (1340 GMT)
A Long March rocket launched a Chinese navigation satellite early Saturday, the second Chinese launch in less than a week. The Long March 3A rocket...

MGS failure caused by software glitch
Posted: Sat, Apr 14 9:25 AM ET (1325 GMT)
A software glitch, undetected in testing on the ground, caused the demise of NASA's Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) spacecraft last November, an investigation board...

Boisvert named new head of CSA
Posted: Fri, Apr 13 12:32 PM ET (1632 GMT)
The former CEO of a Canadian satellite operator has beem tapped to become the new president of the Canadian Space Agency. The Canadian government announced...

China launches oceanographic satellite
Posted: Thu, Apr 12 9:38 AM ET (1338 GMT)
China launched its second ocean sciences satellite Wednesday, according to state media reports. A Long March 2C lifted off from the Taiyuan launch center at...

Water detected in exoplanet atmosphere
Posted: Thu, Apr 12 9:26 AM ET (1326 GMT)
An astronomer has detected the first evidence of water in the atmosphere of an extrasolar planet. In a paper to be published in the Astrophyical...

Shuttle launch slips to June
Posted: Wed, Apr 11 9:51 AM ET (1351 GMT)
The next space shuttle launch is now scheduled for no earlier than June 8 after shuttle managers concluded Tuesday that they need more time to...

Bigelow Aerospace reveals business plan
Posted: Wed, Apr 11 9:39 AM ET (1339 GMT)
Bigelow Aerospace, the Las Vegas-based company developing inflatable orbital habitats, released new details about its business plan on Tuesday, including efforts to target both...

Proton launches Canadian communications satellite
Posted: Tue, Apr 10 10:21 AM ET (1421 GMT)
A Proton rocket successfully launched a communications satellite for a Canadian company early Tuesday. The Proton M lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome at 6:...