Irvine, CA (SPX) Sep 02, 2011 - Paragon Software Group reached a milestone in the company's brief history as it soared into the heavens on the final flight of America's Space Shuttle Atlantis. Selected by NASA's Prime Bioast
Tel Aviv, Israel (UPI) Sep 2, 2011 - The outgoing chief of Israel's military space program has warned the country is in danger of losing its superiority in space over its Middle Eastern adversaries because the government won't free promised funds for the high-tech industry.
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Sep 02, 2011 - 'Encounter' a satellite in orbit, view the Moon and the Rhine Valley in 3D, board SOFIA, the airborne observatory, or visit the wind tunnel or astronaut training facility to experience the extreme c
Austin, TX (SPX) Sep 02, 2011 - The Texas Space Alliance (TXA) urged Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison and the rest of the Texas Congressional delegation to give their full support to Rep. Dana Rohrabacher's call for transferring funding
Boulder, CO (SPX) Sep 02, 2011 - Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) has been selected to provide payload flight integration services as part of three suborbital flight provider contracts recently announced by NASA to Virgin Galact
Kourou, French Guiana (SPX) Sept 01, 2011 - Integration of the upper portion of Ariane 5's dual-passenger stack has been completed, with the Arabsat-5C satellite and SYLDA dispenser system now encapsulated inside the launcher's payload fair
Astana, Kazakhstan (RIA Novosti) Sept 01, 2011 - Kazakhstan does not plan to ban launches of Russian rockets from its space center in Baikonur after accident with Progress M-12M space freighter, Talgat Musabayev, the head of the Kazakh space agenc
Moscow (VOA) Sept 01, 2011 - A Russian firm has unveiled its plans for an orbital hotel by 2016 and space tours to Mars by 2030. The news comes as Russia has grounded its Soyuz rockets after an unmanned cargo vessel, bound for
Dulles, VA (SPX) Sep 01, 2011 - Orbital Sciences has received a Commercial Space Transportation Launch License from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to conduct the Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) program
Longueuil, Canada (SPX) Sep 01, 2011 - Dextre, the Canadian Space Agency's robotic handyman aboard the International Space Station (ISS), has successfully replaced a faulty circuit-breaker box on the orbiting lab. The robot swapped
Moscow (XNA) Sep 01, 2011 - Three crew members of the International Space Station (ISS) will return to Earth on Sept. 16, later than previously scheduled due to a failed launch of the Progress cargo vehicle, the Russian space
Paris, France (ESA) Sep 01, 2011 - The six astronauts on the International Space Station are safe and continuing their normal work after the loss of their space-bound cargo craft on 24 August. While the cause of the accident is being
Kourou, French Guiana (SPX) Sep 01, 2011 - The preparation campaign for Europe's third Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) has begun in French Guiana as this large cargo resupply spacecraft is readied for a spring 2012 Ariane 5 launch by Ariane
Kourou, French Guiana (ESA) Aug 31, 2011 - Payload integration for Arianespace's fifth Ariane 5 mission of 2011 has begun with installation of the Arabsat-5C satellite atop the SYLDA dual-payload dispenser system at the Spaceport in French G
Beijing (XNA) Aug 31, 2011 - China's second moon orbiter, the Chang'e-2, has arrived in outer space about 1.5 million km away from Earth and is now orbiting the second Lagrange Point (L2), where gravity from the sun and Earth b
Reston, VA (SPX) Aug 31, 2011 - The Inter-Agency Commission has completed its investigation of the off-nominal orbital injection of Express-AM4 launched on 18 August from the Baikonur Cosmodrome. Based on its activities and
