Washington (AFP) Oct 22, 2013 - A privately-operated unmanned cargo ship built by Orbital Sciences Corporation left the International Space Station on Tuesday after its first successful demonstration mission, NASA said.
Washington (AFP) Oct 21, 2013 - Six Chinese scientists who were banned from a NASA astronomy conference are now welcome to register, resolving an international row over academic discrimination, a co-organizer told AFP on Monday.
Beijing (XNA) Oct 21, 2013 - US space agency NASA announced that it would review the applications of six Chinese scientists who were denied access to an upcoming conference on the agency's space telescope program, blaming middl
Paris (ESA) Oct 21, 2013 - ESA is set to begin developing a new generation of satellites propelled by solar electric thrusters, following the signing of a contract with SES of Luxembourg for the next phase of the Electra proj
Washington (AFP) Oct 21, 2013 - A private cargo ship built by Orbital Sciences Corporation is preparing to leave the International Space Station early Tuesday and burn up on re-entry into Earth's atmosphere, NASA said Monday.
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Oct 18, 2013 - A Proton-M carrier rocket with a US telecoms satellite will be transported early Thursday to a launch pad at the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan in preparation for launch on October 20, Russia's
San Francisco (AFP) Oct 15, 2013 - Samsung its set to break ground at a big Silicon Valley research center on Wednesday, just down the road from its arch-rival Apple.
Denver CO (SPX) Oct 15, 2013 - Spaceport Colorado has announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with S3, an aerospace company that designs and engineers suborbital launch systems, formalizing a collaborative re
Kourou, French Guiana (ESA) Oct 14, 2013 - Payload preparations for Arianespace's next Soyuz launch are progressing well at the Spaceport in French Guiana, where the Gaia billion-star surveyor is receiving its sunshield for in-orbit telescop
Beijing (AFP) Oct 14, 2013 - China marks 10 years since it first sent a human into space Tuesday, with its ambitious programme rocketing ahead while rival NASA is largely closed due to the US government shutdown.
Tehran (AFP) Oct 13, 2013 - Iran is planning to send another live monkey into space within a month, a top space official said in remarks reported by media Sunday.
Washington (AFP) Oct 13, 2013 - Just before graduating from the University of Michigan, Calvin Schemanski began his start-up.
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Oct 11, 2013 - On October 15, 2003, Chinese Air Force pilot Yang Liwei became the first Chinese citizen to fly in space. His mission on the Shenzhou 5 spacecraft lasted roughly one day and featured live television
Moscow (Voice of Russia) Oct 11, 2013 - The Kazakh government does not link recent kills of saiga antelopes to the launch activity at the Russian spaceport of Baikonur in central Kazakhstan. According to Kazakhstan's Environment Min
Los Angeles (AFP) Oct 10, 2013 - Scott Carpenter, who became the second US astronaut to orbit the Earth in 1962, as America battled with Moscow in the space race, died Thursday in Colorado aged 88, his wife said.
Washington (AFP) Oct 10, 2013 - The US space agency Thursday vowed to reconsider the applications of Chinese scientists who were denied access to a NASA conference on security grounds, sparking a boycott by leading American astronomers.
