Chinese lunar orbiter ends mission with crash landing
Posted: Sun, Mar 1 12:06 PM ET (1706 GMT)
China's first mission to the Moon ended Sunday when the spacecraft deorbited and crashed to the lunar surface, as planned. Chang'e-1 hit...

Russia launches military satellite
Posted: Sat, Feb 28 3:00 PM ET (2000 GMT)
A Proton rocket launched a military communications satellite on Saturday. The Proton-K lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome at 11:10 pm EST Friday (...

White House proposes $18.7 billion budget for NASA in 2010
Posted: Fri, Feb 27 7:37 AM ET (1237 GMT)
The Obama Administration released the outlines of its proposed fiscal year 2010 budget on Thursday, offering $18.7 billion for NASA while continuing plans to...

Land Launch places Telstar 11N in orbit
Posted: Fri, Feb 27 7:26 AM ET (1226 GMT)
The multinational Land Launch venture successfully launched a commercial communications satellite on Thursday. The Zenit-3SLB lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome at 1:30...

March 12 date set for shuttle launch
Posted: Thu, Feb 26 7:37 AM ET (1237 GMT)
NASA is tentatively planning to launch the space shuttle Discovery on the STS-119 mission to the ISS, a date that gives the agency little...

MRO enters "precautionary" mode
Posted: Thu, Feb 26 7:28 AM ET (1228 GMT)
NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) spacecraft put itself into a safe mode this week after its main computer unexpectedly rebooted, JPL announced late Wednesday....

China to launch Eutelsat spacecraft
Posted: Wed, Feb 25 8:57 AM ET (1357 GMT)
China has won a contract to launch a European communications satellite, the Wall Street Journal reported in its Wednesday edition. The unspecified Eutelsat spacecraft is...

OCO launch fails
Updated: Tue, Feb 24 2:56 PM ET (1956 GMT)
Originally Posted: Tue, Feb 24 6:49 AM ET (1149 GMT)
The launch of a satellite designed to monitor carbon dioxide in the Earth's atmosphere apparently failed early Tuesday when the rocket's payload fairing...

Report: North Korea planning satellite launch
Posted: Tue, Feb 24 6:28 AM ET (1128 GMT)
The government of North Korea has announced plans to place a satellite into orbit in the immediate future. According to reports by the government news...

Shuttle launch postponed
Posted: Sat, Feb 21 10:30 AM ET (1530 GMT)
NASA announced late Friday night that it has postponed once again the launch of the shuttle Discovery in order to resolve outstanding issues with a...