Moscow (AFP) Oct 6, 2011 - Russian successfully launched a US Intelsat satellite into space late Wednesday, aboard a Zenit carrier rocket from the Baikonur space centre in Kazakhstan, a Russian space agency official said.
Washington DC (SPX) Oct 06, 2011 - Three members of the American Astronomical Society (AAS) have been named recipients of the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has announced that half of the SEK 10 mi
Washington (AFP) Oct 6, 2011 - US lawmaker Gabrielle Giffords, who was shot in the head earlier this year, honored her NASA astronaut husband Mark Kelly Thursday, at his White House naval retirement ceremony.
Paris, France (ESA) Oct 05, 2011 - The first elements of Europe's new Vega small launcher left Italy last Thursday to begin their long journey to Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana, marking the final step towards its inaugural fligh
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Oct 05, 2011 - The launch of China's Tiangong 1 space laboratory has finally taken place. Apart from marking the debut of Tiangong as an operational spacecraft, it's worth considering what else we can already lear
Palm Beach, Fla. (UPI) Oct 5, 2011 - A federal judge in Florida has refused Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell's request to dismiss a lawsuit that seeks the return of a space camera.
Paris, France (SPX) Oct 05, 2011 - Mexican government's communications and transport administration, Secretara de Comunicaciones y Transportes, has awarded a contract to Arianespace to launch the country's new Mexsat 3 telecommunicat
Cleveland OH (SPX) Oct 05, 2011 - Recent Cleveland State University graduates Adina Feigenbaum and Nick Matej were tapped by NASA's Glenn Research Center to design an exciting new look into the Orion spacecraft, the agency's deep sp
Bonn, Germany (SPX) Oct 04, 2011 - The ROKVISS (Robotik-Komponenten-Verifikation auf der ISS - Robotic Components Verification on the ISS) technology experiment developed by the German Aerospace Center has returned to Earth after six
Chiba, Japan (AFP) Oct 4, 2011 - Smartphones detecting bad breath and radiation, twistable remote controls and a super-thin tablet computer featured among the cutting-edge gadgets at Asia's biggest tech fair in Japan Tuesday.
Pasadena CA (SPX) Oct 04, 2011 - NASA has selected 11 science proposals, including one from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, for evaluation as potential future science missions. The proposals outline prospective missions to study the
Tampa FL (XNA) Oct 04, 2011 - The announced plans by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to build a massive rocket are being greeted with both enthusiasm and criticism in the United States. The new roc
London, UK (SPX) Oct 04, 2011 - Small satellite pioneer Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) plans to jump-start space innovation by combining state-of-the-art avionics with flight proven systems in a low cost 50kg class satelli
Plesetsk, Russia (RIA Novosti) Oct 04, 2011 - Russia's Soyuz-2.1B carrier rocket has put into orbit a Glonass-M navigation satellite, Space Forces spokesman Colonel Alexei Zolotukhin said on Monday. He said the satellite separated from th
Taipei (AFP) Oct 3, 2011 - A team of Taiwanese researchers have developed an invisible key technology which allows users to unlock their doors by means of simple hand gestures, the head of the team said Monday.
Tehran (AFP) Oct 3, 2011 - Iran's plans to send a live monkey into space have been postponed indefinitely, the country's top space official said, quoted on Monday by the state television website.
