Kourou, French Guiana (SPX) Apr 05, 2011 - A dual-purpose Indian satellite to be orbited on another of Arianespace's Ariane 5 missions during 2011 arrived in French Guiana today. GSAT-8 - which also is known by the INSAT-4G designation
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Apr 05, 2011 - The Challenger and Columbia space shuttle disasters were perhaps two of the most prominent reminders of how crucial it is that everything work just right for a spacecraft to travel to space and succ
Washington DC (SPX) Apr 5, 2011 - The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the NASA Ames Research Center announced their 100-Year Starship Study in October. This study is examining the business model needed to devel
Houston TX (SPX) Apr 04, 2011 - NASA has incorporated six, one-month content adjustments that provide options for continuation of services to support fly-out of the space shuttle manifest beyond Thursday, March 31. If all options
KSC FL (SPX) Apr 04, 2011 - Technicians and engineers on Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, will begin detailed inspections of space shuttle Endeavour and its external fuel tank Saturday afternoon. They'
Washington (AFP) April 4, 2011 - NASA on Monday said it will delay the shuttle Endeavour's launch by 10 days, setting a new date for April 29 to avoid a conflict with a Russian capsule's arrival at the International Space Station.
Stennis Space Center MS (SPX) Apr 04, 2011 - Forty-five years after its first Saturn V rocket stage test and 35 years after its first space shuttle main engine test, the A-2 Test Stand at NASA's John C. Stennis Space Center achieved a mileston
El Segundo CA (SPX) Apr 04, 2011 - A Reentry Breakup Recorder (REBR) carried aboard the Japanese HTV2 vehicle during its fiery plunge into the South Pacific Ocean successfully collected data during the breakup of the HTV2 vehicle and
Houston TX (SPX) Apr 04, 2011 - At 10:36 p.m. EDT, ground controllers moved the International Space Station away from a piece of orbital debris. The object is a relic from a collision between the COSMOS 2251 and Iridium 33 satelli
Sacramento, CA (SPX) Apr 04, 2011 - Aerojet says its thrusters on the Voyager 1 spacecraft assisted in several critical repositionings of the spacecraft over 10 billion miles away from the sun, at the edge of the solar system. O
Baikonur, Kazakhstan (UPI) Apr 3, 2011 - A Russian Soyuz spacecraft has been transported to its launch pad in Kazakhstan in advance of its Tuesday blastoff for a manned mission into space.
Kourou, French Guiana (SPX) Apr 01, 2011 - In the last seconds of Ariane Flight VA201's launch countdown as the Vulcain cryogenic main stage engine was being ignited, the checkout process detected an anomaly on the launcher, interrupting the
Washington DC (SPX) Apr 01, 2011 - today, in a hearing of the Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics, witnesses expressed serious concern about the lack of clear focus by the Administration on NASA's transition from the Space Shuttle
Washington DC (SPX) Apr 01, 2011 - US President Barak Obama declared today that he had signed a rare Presidential Decree reinstating the US Space Shuttle program. We cannot find any justification to discontinue the deficit fun
Cape Canaveral FL (SPX) Mar 31, 2011 - At NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, space shuttle Endeavour's six astronauts and ground crews will begin training related to the Terminal Countdown Demonstration Test (TCDT) today. The STS-13
Kourou, French Guiana (SPX) Mar 31, 2011 - Arianespace has begun the final countdown for today's heavy-lift Ariane 5 mission from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana. Activities began with this morning's electrical systems checkout at the Sp
