Armadillo Aerospace wins Lunar Lander Challenge prize
Posted: Sat, Oct 25 8:05 AM ET (1205 GMT)
Entrepreneurial space company Armadillo Aerospace captured the $350,000 first prize in Level 1 of the Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge on Friday. The Texas-...

Delta launches Italian satellite
Posted: Sat, Oct 25 7:44 AM ET (1144 GMT)
A Delta 2 rocket launched the third in a series of Italian remote sensing satellites Friday night. The Delta 2 7420-10 lifted off from...

Soyuz lands on target
Posted: Fri, Oct 24 8:25 AM ET (1225 GMT)
A Soyuz spacecraft carrying two Russian cosmonauts and an American commercial passenger landed safely in Kazakhstan early Friday, avoiding reentry problems that plagued two previous...

Hubble ready to resume observations
Posted: Fri, Oct 24 8:12 AM ET (1212 GMT)
NASA is on track to restore the Hubble Space Telescope to scientific operations as soon as this weekend, agency officials said Thursday. The orbiting telescope'...

ICO wins lawsuit against Boeing
Posted: Thu, Oct 23 9:11 AM ET (1311 GMT)
A California jury awarded satellite operator ICO over $370 million in a suit against Boeing regarding a contract to manufacture a constellation of communications satellites....

Congress removes funding for satellite imagery program
Posted: Thu, Oct 23 8:55 AM ET (1255 GMT)
Congress quietly removed funding from a defense appropriations bill for a controversial satellite imagery programs that critics alleged duplicated capabilities available commercially. The Broad Area...

India launches first lunar mission
Posted: Wed, Oct 22 9:30 AM ET (1330 GMT)
India successfully launched its first mission to the Moon early Wednesday. A Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) rocket lifted off from the Indian spaceport at...

Atlantis returns to VAB
Posted: Wed, Oct 22 9:10 AM ET (1310 GMT)
The space shuttle Atlantis returned to the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) on Monday as its mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope has been postponed...

Sierra Nevada to acquire SpaceDev
Posted: Tue, Oct 21 7:15 AM ET (1115 GMT)
SpaceDev announced late Monday that it has reached an agreement to be acquired by Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) for $38 million. SpaceDev, based in the...

Pegasus launches space sciences satellite
Posted: Tue, Oct 21 7:02 AM ET (1102 GMT)
A Pegasus rocket successfully Sunday launched a NASA mission designed to study the solar system's distant boundary. The Pegasus XL rocket deployed from its...