Company plans high-altitude balloon flights, licensed as space vehicle
Posted: Wed, Oct 23 7:49 AM ET (1149 GMT)
A new venture announced plans Monday to fly tourists into the upper atmosphere on a balloon that will be licensed as a launch vehicle. World...

Cygnus departs ISS
Posted: Wed, Oct 23 7:30 AM ET (1130 GMT)
The first Cygnus cargo spacecraft completed its demonstration mission to the International Space Station (ISS) on Tuesday, departing the station for a destructive reentry. The...

GOCE mission ends, satellite to reenter
Posted: Wed, Oct 23 7:12 AM ET (1112 GMT)
A European spacecraft that mapped the Earth's gravity field formally ended its mission on Monday and will reenter the Earth's atmosphere in the...

Proton launch postponed a day
Posted: Sun, Oct 20 1:35 PM ET (1735 GMT)
The launch of a radio broadcasting satellite on a Proton rocket has been postponed a day because of a problem with a satellite ground station....

Upper stage investigation delays next Delta 4 launch
Updated: Sat, Oct 19 11:20 AM ET (1520 GMT)
Originally Posted: Sat, Oct 19 11:20 AM ET (1520 GMT)
United Launch Alliance (ULA) said Friday it has postponed next week's scheduled launch of a GPS satellite on a Delta 4 in order to...

Astronomers find tilted solar system
Posted: Fri, Oct 18 10:29 AM ET (1429 GMT)
Astronomers reported this week the discovery of a solar system whose inner planets are at a sharp angle to the rotational plane of the star...

Chelyabinsk meteorite fragment pulled from lake
Posted: Thu, Oct 17 9:26 AM ET (1326 GMT)
The largest fragment of the meteor that exploded above the Russian city of Chelyabinsk in February has been recovered from the bottom a lake. A...

Europe to embark on all-electric satellite program
Posted: Wed, Oct 16 9:08 AM ET (1308 GMT)
The European Space Agency, a satellite operator, and a satellite manufacturer announced plans Tuesday to jointly develop a communications satellite platform that exclusively uses electric...

LADEE enters commissioning orbit
Posted: Tue, Oct 15 7:49 AM ET (1149 GMT)
NASA's LADEE lunar orbiter spacecraft entered a circular orbit late Saturday, starting a process of checking out the spacecraft and testing its laser communications...

Juno recovers from safe mode
Posted: Sat, Oct 12 11:09 AM ET (1509 GMT)
NASA's Juno spacecraft exited safe mode late Friday, two days after it entered that protective state during an Earth flyby. Officials with the Southwest...