A reprieve for Orbital Express
Posted: Wed, Jul 11 8:09 AM ET (1209 GMT)
DARPA's Orbital Express mission, scheduled to end earlier this month, will remain active while Air Force officials study potential additional experiments that could be...

Hydrocarbons found on Saturn moon
Posted: Wed, Jul 11 8:02 AM ET (1202 GMT)
NASA's Cassini spacecraft has detected the presence of hydrocarbons on the surface of Saturn's moon Hyperion, suggesting that these building blocks of life...

Dawn launch delayed until September
Posted: Sun, Jul 8 9:16 AM ET (1316 GMT)
In the third launch delay in just over 24 hours, NASA announced late Saturday that the launch of the Dawn mission had been postponed until...

Proton launches DirecTV satellite
Posted: Sat, Jul 7 9:16 AM ET (1316 GMT)
An upgraded Proton rocket successfully launched a television broadcasting satellite for DirecTV early Saturday. The Proton M lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan...

Dawn launch delayed again
Posted: Sat, Jul 7 9:01 AM ET (1301 GMT)
The launch of NASA's Dawn mission to the asteroid belt has been delayed again, this time to mid-July, because of delays getting tracking...

China launches communications satellite
Posted: Fri, Jul 6 5:34 AM ET (0934 GMT)
A Long March rocket placed a French-built domestic communications satellite into orbit late Thursday. The Long March 3B lifted off from the Xichang Satellite...

Dawn launch postponed
Posted: Thu, Jul 5 1:47 PM ET (1747 GMT)
NASA has delayed the launch of the Dawn asteroid mission by 24 hours after weather interfered with pre-launch preparations. The launch, which had been...

Orbital Express mission to end
Posted: Thu, Jul 5 8:00 AM ET (1200 GMT)
The US government agency responsible for a mission to test on-orbit satellite servicing plans to decommission the spacecraft starting today. DARPA officials confirmed this...

NASA gives two spacecraft new missions
Posted: Wed, Jul 4 6:26 PM ET (2226 GMT)
NASA announced late Tuesday that it has given new missions to a pair of spacecraft already in space that have completed their original missions. The...

Shuttle returns to KSC
Posted: Wed, Jul 4 6:18 PM ET (2218 GMT)
The space shuttle Atlantis finally returned to the Kennedy Space Center on Tuesday, more than a week after the orbiter landed in California. A 747...