Kourou, French Guiana (SPX) Dec 29, 2010 - The launch of Arianespace Flight 199 has been postponed for 24 hours due to the unfavourable weather conditions over the launch pad in Kourou, French Guiana. Flight 199 will place into geostat
Paris (UPI) Dec 29, 2010 - The European Space Agency says it was unable to win approval of NASA's proposed five-year extension of operations of the International Space Station.
Paris, France (SPX) Dec 28, 2010 - The KA-SAT satellite of Eutelsat Communications has been successfully lofted into orbit by a Proton Breeze M rocket supplied by ILS. Lift-off of Eutelsat's 6.1 tonne satellite took place on 26 Decem
Cape Canaveral FL (SPX) Dec 28, 2010 - For nearly three decades, the NASA Railroad at Kennedy Space Center in Florida has kept the space shuttle's solid rocket boosters on track. The mighty boosters fly in pairs and generate a comb
Huntsville AL (SPX) Dec 28, 2010 - NASA and Pratt and Whitney Rocketdyne have successfully completed the heart of the J-2X upper stage rocket engine - the turbomachinery assemblies - for the first development engine off the productio
Louisville KY (SPX) Dec 28, 2010 - The greatest advancement to jet aviation since the first Heinkel He178 V1 took off was, of course, the afterburner. The greatest thing that could happen to the scientific community would be if it wa
Moscow (AFP) Dec 27, 2010 - Russia on Monday put into orbit the European Ka-Sat satellite launched overnight by a Proton-M rocket from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, space officials said.
Washington (UPI) Dec 27, 2010 - NASA's Ares I rocket program is defunct but because of congressional inaction the space agency must continue to fund it until March, officials said.
Bangalore, India (AFP) Dec 25, 2010 - An Indian space rocket carrying an advanced communications satellite was destroyed by mission control Saturday following a malfunction after lift-off, officials said.
Hong Kong (AFP) Dec 23, 2010 - Hong Kong is an unlikely home for Santa Claus, with its sub-tropical climate and status as an autonomous region within communist China.
Washington (AFP) Dec 23, 2010 - Air-powered batteries, 3-D cellphones that project holographs and personalized commutes are among the predictions of IBM scientists gazing into their crystal balls.
Houston TX (SPX) Dec 22, 2010 - On December 22-23, 2010, Dextre, the Canadian Space Agency's robotic handyman aboard the International Space Station (ISS), will undertake a series of tasks that will officially certify the robot fo
Moscow, Russia (RIA Novosti) Dec 22, 2010 - Russia's Mission Control is preparing to adjust the orbit of the International Space Station (ISS) on Wednesday by raising it 4.2 kilometers (2.6 miles). The readjustment is necessary to ensur
Wellington (AFP) Dec 22, 2010 - The New Zealand military released hundreds of previously classified reports Wednesday detailing claims of unidentified flying object (UFO) sightings and alien encounters.
Washington DC (SPX) Dec 22, 2010 - NASA is seeking proposals from researchers interested in testing new technologies during suborbital flights. The agency also is requesting information from commercial suborbital reusable launch vehi
London (AFP) Dec 22, 2010 - A group of British children aged between eight and 10 had their school project on bees published by the prestigious Royal Society in a world scientific first, the society said Wednesday.
