News briefs: January 21
Posted: Tue, Jan 22 10:23 AM ET (1523 GMT)
China is developing a space policy which may include staking claims on territory in space, SpaceDaily reported Monday. The article outlined a new Chinese space...

More Soyuz space tourist flights planned
Posted: Tue, Jan 22 12:36 AM ET (0536 GMT)
There may be a space tourist on each Soyuz taxi flight to the International Space Station in the foreseeable future, SPACE.com recently reported. According...

NASA extends EO-1 mission
Posted: Tue, Jan 22 12:22 AM ET (0522 GMT)
NASA announced Friday that it will extend the mission of the Earth Observing 1 (EO-1) spacecraft, a technology demonstration mission under the New Millennium...

Gemini South observatory dedicated
Posted: Mon, Jan 21 2:30 PM ET (1930 GMT)
Astronomers and officials dedicated the Gemini South observatory in Chile on Friday. The 8-meter telescope, atop Cerro Pachon in the Chilean Andes, will join...

News briefs: January 19-20
Posted: Mon, Jan 21 10:14 AM ET (1514 GMT)
The National Imagery and Mapping Agency (NIMA) has ended its contract with Space Imaging to purchase Ikonos satellite images of Afghanistan, Wired News reported. NIMA...

Galileo out of safe mode
Posted: Sat, Jan 19 2:24 PM ET (1924 GMT)
Engineers recovered NASA's Galileo spacecraft from safe mode early Friday, one day after freezing up during its flyby of the Jovian moon Io. Galileo...

News briefs: January 18
Posted: Sat, Jan 19 12:58 PM ET (1758 GMT)
Loral engineers believe they have identified the power problem that affected one of its communications satellites last year, Space News reported Friday. The problem with...

News briefs: January 17
Posted: Fri, Jan 18 8:14 AM ET (1314 GMT)
Ukraine and Brazil agreed this week to cooperate on the development of a new launch vehicle. The two countries hope that the Tsiklon-4 booster,...

Galileo goes into safe mode during Io flyby
Posted: Thu, Jan 17 6:06 PM ET (2306 GMT)
NASA's Galileo spacecraft went into safe mode during its close flyby of Jupiter's moon Io Thursday, disrupting observations of the moon. Project officials...

New discoveries offer mixed hopes for Mars life
Posted: Thu, Jan 17 2:08 PM ET (1908 GMT)
Two separate studies published in Thursday's issue of the journal Nature provide both good and bad news for the prospects of microbial life on...