Loral wins contract for Hispasat spacecraft
Posted: Thu, Jul 10 7:12 AM ET (1112 GMT)
Space Systems/Loral has won a contract to build a new communications satellite for Spanish operator Hispasat, the company announced Wednesday. SS/L will build...

NASA announces schedule for remaining shuttle launches
Posted: Tue, Jul 8 8:24 AM ET (1224 GMT)
NASA announced on Monday the tentative schedule for the remaining 10 launches of the space shuttle, with the final launch now scheduled for mid-2010....

Ariane 5 launches two satellites
Posted: Tue, Jul 8 8:17 AM ET (1217 GMT)
An Ariane 5 successfully launched two communications satellites for Middle Eastern and American operators on Monday. The Ariane 5 ECA lifted off from Kourou, French...

Spacecraft confirms Mercury is shrinking
Posted: Fri, Jul 4 11:15 AM ET (1515 GMT)
Data collected by a NASA spacecraft as it flew past the innermost planet, Mercury, in January has confirmed that the planet is shrinking as it...

Instrument concerns accelerate Mars sample analysis plans
Posted: Thu, Jul 3 8:45 AM ET (1245 GMT)
The possibility of a short circuit in a key instrument on NASA's Mars Phoenix Lander has led scientists to accelerate the analysis of a...

Proton launches Russian military satellite
Posted: Sat, Jun 28 10:16 AM ET (1416 GMT)
A Russian Proton rocket launched a military satellite early Friday, the first Proton launch since a failure in March. The Proton K rocket lifted off...

Phoenix finds Earth-like soil
Posted: Sat, Jun 28 9:57 AM ET (1357 GMT)
The first chemical analysis of the soil at the landing site for NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has revealed conditions not dissimilar to those of...

NASA upgrades Ares 5
Posted: Fri, Jun 27 7:29 AM ET (1129 GMT)
NASA has added more power to its proposed Ares 5 heavy-lift launch vehicle that will be used to send missions to the Moon as...

Impact may explain differences in Martian hemispheres
Posted: Fri, Jun 27 7:21 AM ET (1121 GMT)
The large differences in terrain between the northern and southern hemispheres of Mars can be explained by a giant impact that took place on the...

NASA lowers KSC job loss estimates
Posted: Wed, Jun 25 8:13 AM ET (1213 GMT)
The number of jobs at the Kennedy Space Center that will be lost once the shuttle is retired will be less than originally feared, agency...