Orbital reports increased profit despite flat revenue
Posted: Wed, Apr 24 7:16 AM ET (1116 GMT)
Orbital Sciences Corporation reported Tuesday an increase in net income in the first quarter of 2013 over a year ago despite no growth in the...

Antares launches successfully on inaugural flight
Posted: Mon, Apr 22 7:28 AM ET (1128 GMT)
Orbital Sciences Corporation's newest and biggest rocket lifted off Sunday on its first launch, successfully placing a demonstration payload and several small satellites into...

Winds scrub Antares launch
Posted: Sun, Apr 21 8:41 AM ET (1241 GMT)
High upper-altitude winds postponed the second launch attempt for Orbital Sciences Corporation's Antares rocket on Saturday. The company had hoped to launch the...

Cosmonauts perform ISS spacewalk
Posted: Sat, Apr 20 3:46 PM ET (1946 GMT)
Two Russian cosmonauts spent over six and a half hours outside the International Space Station on Friday installing and retrieving scientific payloads. Pavel Vinogradov and...

Russia launches biological research satellite
Posted: Sat, Apr 20 9:22 AM ET (1322 GMT)
Russia launched a spacecraft Friday carrying plants and animals on a one-month research mission. A Soyuz 2-1a rocket lifted off from the Baikonur...

Kepler finds several exoplanets potentially like Earth
Posted: Fri, Apr 19 2:26 PM ET (1826 GMT)
NASA's Kepler spacecraft has detected three "super-Earth" planets in the habitable zones of two stars, worlds scientists said Thursday are the most like...

Intelsat shares rise after IPO
Posted: Fri, Apr 19 2:00 PM ET (1800 GMT)
Commercial communications satellite operator Intelsat raised less money than expected in its initial public offering (IPO) of stock on Thursday, but shares rose in the...

Technical problem scrubs Antares launch
Updated: Thu, Apr 18 9:39 PM ET (0139 GMT)
Originally Posted: Thu, Apr 18 10:08 AM ET (1408 GMT)
A prematurely-disconnected cable scrubbed the first launch of Orbital Sciences Corporation's Antares rocket from Virginia on Wednesday. The company had planned to launch...

Proton launches Canadian satellite
Posted: Tue, Apr 16 8:26 AM ET (1226 GMT)
A Proton launch successfully launched a communications satellite for a Canadian company on Tuesday. The Proton M lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan...

Russian president pledges more than $50 billion for spaceflight
Posted: Sun, Apr 14 11:04 AM ET (1504 GMT)
Russian president Vladimir Putin said Friday that he would seek more than $50 billion through 2020 to support the nation's space exploration efforts. Putin,...