Delta launches military communications satellite
Posted: Sun, Dec 6 8:34 AM ET (1334 GMT)
A Delta 4 launched the third in a new series of military communications satellites on Saturday night. The Delta 4 Medium=Plus (5,4) lifted...

NASA pleased with Ares 1-X launch
Posted: Fri, Dec 4 7:17 AM ET (1217 GMT)
NASA officials said Thursday that an initial analysis of data from the October launch of the Ares 1-X identified no major engineering issues with...

Weather, technical issues scrub Delta 4 launch
Posted: Fri, Dec 4 7:06 AM ET (1206 GMT)
Poor weather and a technical glitch delayed Thursday night's schedule launch of a military communications satellite on a Delta 4 from Cape Canaveral. The...

Mars Odyssey goes into safe mode
Posted: Wed, Dec 2 6:48 AM ET (1148 GMT)
NASA's Mars Odyssey has gone into safe mode because of a computer glitch, project officials said Tuesday, complicating separate efforts to free a rover...

Weather delays Delta 4 launch
Posted: Wed, Dec 2 6:39 AM ET (1139 GMT)
The launch of a military communications satellite on a Delta 4 has been postponed 24 hours because of forecasted poor weather. The Delta 4 Medium-...

ISS crew lands in Kazakhstan
Posted: Tue, Dec 1 7:47 AM ET (1247 GMT)
A Soyuz spacecraft carrying Canadian, European, and Russian ISS crewmembers safely landed in Kazakhstan Tuesday. The Soyuz TMA-15 spacecraft carrying Russian cosmonaut Roman Romanenko,...

Zenit-3SLB launches Intelsat 15
Posted: Tue, Dec 1 7:38 AM ET (1238 GMT)
After a one-day delay, a Zenit-3SLB successfully placed an Intelsat communications satellite into orbit early Tuesday. The Zenit-3SLB lifted off from the...

Astrium wins four-satellite order from SES
Posted: Tue, Dec 1 7:24 AM ET (1224 GMT)
European satellite operator SES has ordered four new communications satellite from EADS Astrium, the companies announced Monday. The order, first reported Friday by Space News,...

Zenit-3SLB launch postponed
Posted: Mon, Nov 30 5:56 AM ET (1056 GMT)
Sunday's scheduled launch of a communications satellite from Baikonur was postponed because of a technical problem. A Zenit-3SLB was scheduled to launch Sunday...

Japan launches reconnaissance satellite
Posted: Sat, Nov 28 8:07 PM ET (0107 GMT)
An H-2 rocket placed a Japanese reconnaissance satellite into orbit on Saturday. The H-2A rocket lifted off at 8:21 pm EST Friday (...