Virgin Galactic unveils SpaceShipTwo
Posted: Tue, Dec 8 10:40 AM ET (1540 GMT)
Space tourism company Virgin Galactic formally unveiled its suborbital spacecraft, SpaceShipTwo, at an event Monday in California. The first SpaceShipTwo, christened VSS Enterprise, was rolled...

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...