Rome, Italy (SPX) Feb 01, 2010 - Today in Rome, Jean-Yves Le Gall, Chairman and CEO of Arianespace, and Markus Bertschi, Launcher Programmes Department Head at the European Space Agency (ESA), signed a contract defining Arianespace's support services for the qualification campaign and combined testing of the Vega light launcher.
Washington (AFP) Feb 1, 2010 - The United States will remain involved in the International Space Station to 2020 or beyond, the head of the US space agency said as he unveiled President Barack Obama's budget pledge to NASA.
Washington (AFP) Jan 30, 2010 - Facing budgetary constraints, President Barack Obama will scale back US space ambitions, abandoning plans to return to the moon by 2020 and confining NASA to lower orbits for years to come.
Hawthorne CA (SPX) Jan 29, 2010 - Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) and Space Communication Ltd. (Spacecom) of Ramat-Gan Israel, operator of the AMOS satellite fleet, have signed an agreement for launch of a communication satellite aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 as early as December 2012.
Jakarta (AFP) Jan 29, 2010 - The Indonesian government has apologised to a woman who lost her leg when a military rocket slammed into her house after a test launch, an official said Friday.
Washington (AFP) Jan 29, 2010 - The US space shuttle Endeavour will carry the last major component needed to complete the International Space Station and a high-tech sunroom called a cupola next week, officials said Friday.
Washington DC (AFP) Jan 28, 2010 - NASA on Wednesday gave the green light for the US Endeavour space shuttle to blast off towards the International Space Station on February 7 carrying six astronauts.
Hampton VA (SPX) Jan 27, 2010 - A NASA team looking into design concepts for future space capsules has successfully demonstrated that an all-composite structure is a feasible alternative to traditional metal capsules for carrying astronauts into space and returning them safely to Earth.
Paris, France (ESA) Jan 27, 2010 - There are of course many technical challenges when planning missions to the Moon and beyond, but there is another important question: what should the astronauts have for dinner?
Paris, France (SPX) Jan 27, 2010 - Jean-Yves Le Gall, Chairman and CEO of Arianespace, and Rene Oosterlinck, Director of the Galileo Program and Navigation-related Activities at the European Space Agency (ESA), has signed the launch contract for the first ten FOC (Full Operational Capability) satellites in Europe's planned Galileo satellite positioning system at ESTEC (European Space Research and Technology Center) in Noordwijk, the Netherlands.
Moscow, Russia (RIA Novosti) Jan 27, 2010 - Russia intends to keep up with the U.S. in the space race and launch a new manned spacecraft by 2017, a senior Russian space official said on Tuesday.
Colorado Springs CO (SPX) Jan 27, 2010 - Integral Systems has announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary, RT Logic has been awarded a contract by Honeywell Technologies Solutions Inc.
Bangalore, India (AFP) Jan 27, 2010 - India will launch its first manned space mission in 2016 in a bid to match space pioneers such as Russia and the United States, a top official said Wednesday.
Cape Canaveral FL (SPX) Jan 26, 2010 - At NASA Kennedy Space Center's Launch Pad 39A, workers closed space shuttle Endeavour's payload bay doors for flight during the weekend.
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Jan 25, 2010 - China's next manned space mission, expected in 2011, will carry three astronauts to China's first space laboratory. The laboratory module that will host them, dubbed Tiangong-1, is expected to fly in late 2010 or early 2011. China will then perform rendezvous and docking tests with an unmanned Shenzhou spacecraft launched to Tiangong, to prove that astronauts can visit the lab.
Moscow, Russia (RIA Novosti) Jan 25, 2010 - Russian specialists have completed the operation to raise the orbit of the International Space Station (ISS) by about 5 km (3 miles), Mission Control said on Sunday.
