Ariane launches satellites for Brazil and Vietnam
Posted: Sat, Apr 19 9:30 AM ET (1330 GMT)
An Ariane 5 rocket successfully launched communications satellites Friday evening for a Brazilian company and the Vietnamese government. The Ariane 5 ECA lifted off from...

Orbital announces 1st quarter profit, to sell unit
Posted: Fri, Apr 18 7:31 AM ET (1131 GMT)
Orbital Sciences Corporation announced increased revenues and profits in its fiscal first quarter on Thursday, and also said it would sell a non-core business...

Pegasus launches C/NOFS
Posted: Thu, Apr 17 6:41 AM ET (1041 GMT)
A Pegasus rocket successfully launched a long-delayed US military satellite designed to predict outages in satellite communications and navigation systems. The Pegasus was deployed...

Cassini mission extended
Posted: Wed, Apr 16 8:52 AM ET (1252 GMT)
NASA announced Tuesday that it has extended the Cassini mission to Saturn by two years, allowing dozens of additional flybys of several of the planet'...

Atlas 5 launches commercial satellite
Posted: Wed, Apr 16 8:44 AM ET (1244 GMT)
An Atlas 5 rocket successfully launched a commercial communications satellite Monday afternoon. The Atlas 5 421 rocket lifted off at 4:12 pm EDT (2012...

First rocket racing flights announced
Posted: Wed, Apr 16 8:30 AM ET (1230 GMT)
A startup that plans to hold a series of competitions of rocket-powered aircraft announced their first series of exhibition flights this week. The Rocket...

AMC-14 declared a total loss
Posted: Fri, Apr 11 9:48 PM ET (0148 GMT)
SES Americom announced Friday that it has given up efforts to salvage a satellite stranded in a useless transfer orbit last month. The AMC-14...

Canada blocks MDA sale
Posted: Thu, Apr 10 10:57 AM ET (1457 GMT)
The Canadian government has rejected, for the time being, the planned sale of the space division of a Canadian company to an American firm. Industry...

Soyuz docks with ISS
Posted: Thu, Apr 10 10:42 AM ET (1442 GMT)
A Soyuz spacecraft carrying two Russian cosmonauts and the first South Korean astronaut docked with the ISS Thursday morning. The Soyuz TMA-12 spacecraft docked...

Global space economy exceeds $250 billion
Posted: Wed, Apr 9 10:43 AM ET (1443 GMT)
A report released Tuesday concluded that the worldwide space budgets and revenues totaled $251 billion in 2007, an 11-percent increase over 2006. "The Space...