Steve Shickles

An Ariane 5 rocket launched the heaviest commercial communications satellite on Wednesday. The Ariane 5…

NASA carried out a successful tanking test with the space shuttle Endeavour on Wednesday, clearing…

A Proton rocket launched early Wednesday a new spacecraft for US satellite radio company Sirius…

NASA announced Monday a new class of nine astronauts, the first exclusively post-shuttle group…

A Delta 4 rocket successfully placed the latest US weather satellite into orbit Saturday evening….

Scientists have detected sodium salts in material ejected by Saturn’s moon Enceladus, a finding…

NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spacecraft entered orbit around the Moon early Tuesday. NASA…

Commercial launch services company Sea Launch filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection late Monday but…

A groundbreaking ceremony was held Friday for Spaceport America, a new commercial spaceport in New…

Land Launch successfully launched a communications satellite for a Malaysian company early Monday. A Zenit-…

The US House of Representatives passed on Thursday an appropriations bill that retains a cut…

An Atlas 5 rocket successfully launched a pair of NASA missions to study the Moon,…

Arianespace announced this week that it had won two contracts to launch communications satellites for…

A committee charterer by the White House to review NASA’s human spaceflight plans held…

NASA scrubbed Wednesday’s scheduled launch of the space shuttle Endeavour after another gaseous hydrogen…