LADEE to end mission this month
Posted: Tue, Apr 8 6:39 AM ET (1039 GMT)
A NASA spacecraft orbiting the Moon since last fall will end its mission later this month by crashing to the lunar surface, NASA officials said...

Launches reset on Eastern Range after radar failure
Posted: Sat, Apr 5 12:22 PM ET (1622 GMT)
Two launches from Cape Canaveral last month postponed by the failure of a tracking radar have been reschedule for mid-April. The launches, of a...

India launches navigational satellite
Posted: Sat, Apr 5 12:10 PM ET (1610 GMT)
A Indian rocket launched Friday the second in a series of satellites designed to provide a satellite navigational system for the region. The Polar Satellite...

Soyuz rocket launches European earth science satellite
Posted: Fri, Apr 4 9:47 AM ET (1347 GMT)
A Soyuz rocket lifted off from the European spaceport in South America late Thursday, placing the first in a new series of earth science satellites...

Atlas launches military weather satellite
Posted: Fri, Apr 4 9:28 AM ET (1328 GMT)
An Atlas 5 rocket successfully launched Thursday a military weather satellite that had been in storage for 15 years. The Atlas 5 401 lifted off...

NASA suspends non-ISS cooperation with Russia
Posted: Thu, Apr 3 8:56 AM ET (1256 GMT)
In a largely symbolic move, NASA announced late Wednesday that it was suspending cooperation with the Russian government on space topics, with the exception of...

GLONASS navigation system suffers outage
Posted: Thu, Apr 3 8:47 AM ET (1247 GMT)
Russia's GLONASS satellite navigation system suffered an 11-hour outage on Wednesday, reportedly due to a technical glitch. The satellite network was broadcasting corrupted...

Pegasus to launch Earth science smallsats
Posted: Wed, Apr 2 9:55 AM ET (1355 GMT)
NASA has awarded a contract to Orbital Sciences for the launch of a constellation of small satellites that will monitor hurricanes and other tropical storms....

Sea Launch delays return to flight
Posted: Tue, Apr 1 10:06 AM ET (1406 GMT)
The first mission by Sea Launch since a launch failure more than a year ago will be delayed because of a problem founding during testing,...

Long March launches Chinese satellite
Posted: Mon, Mar 31 3:10 PM ET (1910 GMT)
A Long March rocket placed what Chinese officials said was an experimental satellite into orbit on Monday. The Long March 2C rocket lifted off from...