Countdown begins for STS-128 launch
Posted: Sat, Aug 22 11:26 AM ET (1526 GMT)
Countdown clocks started Friday night for the early Tuesday launch of the space shuttle Discovery on a mission to the International Space Station. The countdown...

South Korea reschedules launch
Posted: Fri, Aug 21 1:46 PM ET (1746 GMT)
South Korean officials said Friday that they have rescheduled the launch of the first orbital rocket to August 25. The launch of the Korea Space...

Shuttle cleared for early Tuesday launch
Posted: Thu, Aug 20 10:41 PM ET (0241 GMT)
NASA officials approved plans Wednesday to launch the shuttle Discovery in the early morning hours of Tuesday. Discovery is scheduled to launch at 1:36...

First South Korean launch postponed
Posted: Wed, Aug 19 2:05 PM ET (1805 GMT)
South Korea's first attempt to launch a satellite into orbit was scrubbed Wednesday because of a pressurization problem. The Korea Space Launch Vehicle 1 (...

NASA tests inflatable heat shield
Posted: Wed, Aug 19 7:37 AM ET (1137 GMT)
A NASA suborbital rocket tested Monday an inflatable heat shield that could reduce the weight of future reentry capsules. The Inflatable Re-entry Vehicle Experiment (...

Lockheed space unit to cut 800 jobs
Posted: Wed, Aug 19 7:27 AM ET (1127 GMT)
Lockheed Martin plans to cut 800 jobs in its space unit later this year to improve its "competitive posture", the company announced this week. Lockheed...

Delta 2 launches GPS satellite for final time
Posted: Tue, Aug 18 3:02 PM ET (1902 GMT)
A Delta 2 rocket launched a GPS navigation satellite early Monday, completing a 20-year run of launches of such satellites. The Delta 2 7925-...

Panel: budgets don't match exploration plans
Posted: Fri, Aug 14 11:24 AM ET (1524 GMT)
NASA's current exploration plans cannot be achieved on the current timeline without the infusion of an additional $50 billion over the next decade, and...

Tropical storm discovered on Titan
Posted: Thu, Aug 13 11:32 AM ET (1532 GMT)
Scientists have detected a storm in the equatorial regions in the otherwise "very bland" atmosphere of Saturn's moon Titan. In a paper in the...

Proton launches AsiaSat 5
Posted: Wed, Aug 12 9:46 AM ET (1346 GMT)
A Proton rocket successfully placed a commercial communications satellite for AsiaSat into orbit Wednesday. The Proton-M lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan...