Ariane launches two satellites
Posted: Fri, Aug 30 8:07 AM ET (1207 GMT)
An Ariane 5 rocket successfully launched communications satellites for a European-Middle Eastern joint venture and for India on Thursday. The Ariane 5 ECA lifted...

Former JPL director Murray dies
Posted: Fri, Aug 30 7:50 AM ET (1150 GMT)
Bruce Murray, former director of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and a co-founder of The Planetary Society, passed away Thursday at the age of 81...

Delta 4 Heavy launches reconnaissance satellite
Posted: Thu, Aug 29 1:48 PM ET (1748 GMT)
A Delta 4 Heavy rocket launched on Wednesday a classified payload believed to be a satellite for the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO). The rocket, the...

ALMA operations interrupted by strike
Posted: Wed, Aug 28 7:26 AM ET (1126 GMT)
Workers at a radio telescope in Chile have gone on strike, disrupting operations of the multinational observatory. The strike, which started late last week, affects...

Glitch scrubs launch of new Japanese rocket
Posted: Tue, Aug 27 8:08 AM ET (1208 GMT)
The first launch of a new Japanese small launch vehicle was scrubbed Tuesday because of a technical issue in the final seconds of the countdown....

Three Russian officials fired over Proton crash
Posted: Sat, Aug 24 8:53 AM ET (1253 GMT)
Three executives with Russian rocket maker Khrunichev have been fired in the aftermath of last month's launch failure of a Proton rocket. Russian deputy...

Dnepr launches South Korean satellite
Posted: Fri, Aug 23 2:44 PM ET (1844 GMT)
A Dnepr rocket launched a South Korean radar imaging satellite on Thursday. The Dnepr rocket lifted off from Yasny missile base in southern Russia at...

Cosmonauts perform ISS spacewalk
Posted: Fri, Aug 23 7:31 AM ET (1131 GMT)
For the second time in as many weeks, Russian cosmonauts performed a spacewalk outside the International Space Station on Thursday. Fyodor Yurchikhin and Alexander Misurkin...

NASA reactivates WISE spacecraft for asteroid search
Posted: Thu, Aug 22 8:01 AM ET (1201 GMT)
NASA announced Wednesday it is reactivating a dormant space telescope to resume its search for near Earth objects (NEOs). The Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (...

Former astronaut Gordon Fullerton passes away
Posted: Thu, Aug 22 7:54 AM ET (1154 GMT)
Gordon Fullerton, a former astronaut who flew on two shuttle missions as well as approach and landing tests of the shuttle, passed away Wednesday at...