Mitsubishi wins commercial satellite order

December 4th, 2008 - Posted by: Steve Shickles

Mitsubishi Electric Corporation (Melco) announced its first commercial satellite order for a customer outside Japan…

Lockheed wins GOES contract

December 4th, 2008 - Posted by: Steve Shickles

NASA has selected Lockheed Martin to build a new generation of weather satellites in a…

Russia launches military satellite

December 3rd, 2008 - Posted by: Steve Shickles

A Molniya rocket launched a military satellite into an elliptical orbit early Tuesday. The Molniya-…

XCOR announces ticket sales plans and prices

December 3rd, 2008 - Posted by: Steve Shickles

XCOR Aerospace, a company developing a suborbital piloted spacecraft, announced Tuesday its plans to sell…

China launches remote sensing satellite

December 1st, 2008 - Posted by: Steve Shickles

A Long March rocket placed a Chinese remote sensing satellite into orbit on Monday, Chinese…

Progress docks manually with ISS

November 30th, 2008 - Posted by: Steve Shickles

A Progress cargo spacecraft docked with the International Space Station early Sunday under manual control….

Shuttle lands at Edwards

November 30th, 2008 - Posted by: Steve Shickles

The space shuttle Endeavour landed safely Saturday afternoon in California after weather diverted the shuttle…

NASA postpones shuttle landing in Florida, California landing planned

November 30th, 2008 - Posted by: Steve Shickles

Bad weather has forced mission managers to cancel two landing attempts scheduled for Sunday at…

Chandrayaan-1 suffering heating problems

November 28th, 2008 - Posted by: Steve Shickles

India’s first lunar spacecraft, Chandrayaan-1, is overheating and will reduce its operations for…

Endeavour undocks from ISS

November 28th, 2008 - Posted by: Steve Shickles

The space shuttle Endeavour undocked from the International Space Station Friday morning as its two-…

Enceladus jets may be linked to liquid water

November 27th, 2008 - Posted by: Steve Shickles

Jets of dust and gas ejected from the Saturnian moon Enceladus may be generated by…

Ministers approve ESA spending plans

November 27th, 2008 - Posted by: Steve Shickles

Ministers of member nations of the European Space Agency (ESA) approved Wednesday a €10-…

NASA pleased with station repairs

November 26th, 2008 - Posted by: Steve Shickles

NASA officials said Tuesday that they were very happy with the status of repairs made…

Progress launched to ISS

November 26th, 2008 - Posted by: Steve Shickles

A new version of a Progress spacecraft was launched early Wednesday carrying supplies for the…

Spacewalkers complete station work; mission extended

November 26th, 2008 - Posted by: Steve Shickles

Astronauts completed work repairing a troublesome joint outside the International Space Station on Monday while…