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.
Park City, Utah (AFP) Jan 24, 2010 - The elite band of super-rich tourists willing to pay millions of dollars to voyage into outer space are spotlighted in a documentary vying for honors at the Sundance Film Festival.
Richmond, Canada (SPX) Jan 22, 2010 - MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates has received a $2.4M (USD) contract from Orbital Sciences to provide a critical interface that will enable capture and mating of the Cygnus cargo delivery spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS). The contract also contains an option to purchase additional units for follow-on operational missions worth at least $4.0M (USD).
Milpitas CA (SPX) Jan 21, 2010 - Globalstar has announced that the first 90-day window to launch six Globalstar second-generation satellites will open on July 5, 2010. Globalstar plans to launch the new satellites during this time. The satellites will be launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan using the Soyuz launch vehicle.
Washington DC (SPX) Jan 21, 2010 - The Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel, or ASAP, a congressionally mandated group of independent experts established after the 1967 Apollo 1 fire, has released its 2009 annual report.
Esrange, Sweden (SPX) Jan 21, 2010 - The year of 2010 will be full of interesting space missions at Esrange Space Center - Swedish Space Corporation's (SSC) operational facility for rocket and balloon launches, testing of new aerospace vehicles as well as control and operations of satellites.
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Jan 20, 2010 - We could be less than a year away from the launch of Tiangong-1, China's first space laboratory. We've been expecting this launch for years, but relatively little is still known about this mission.
Cape Canaveral FL (SPX) Jan 20, 2010 - At NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, launch officials at the Space Shuttle Program's Flight Readiness Review decided to move forward with the targeted launch date of Feb. 7.
Moscow, China (RIA Novosti) Jan 19, 2010 - Russia will launch two international satellites as well as a freighter to the International Space Station (ISS) next month from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan, the Federal Space Agency said Monday.
Washington DC (SPX) Jan 18, 2010 - NASA has issued a follow-up Request for Information, or RFI, for ideas from education institutions, science museums and other appropriate organizations about the community's ability to acquire and publicly display orbiters after the conclusion of the Space Shuttle Program.
Beijing (AFP) Jan 17, 2010 - China launched an orbiter into space early Sunday, the latest stage in the development of its own satellite navigation system, state media said.
Moscow, Russia (XNA) Jan 15, 2010 - Two Russian cosmonauts at the International Space Station (ISS) began a spacewalk on Thursday, the Mission Control Center outside Moscow said.
Moscow, Russia (XNA) Jan 14, 2010 - The Russian modules on the International Space Station will realize uninterrupted communications with the ground by 2013, a space industry insider said Wednesday.
Moscow, Russia (SPX) Jan 13, 2010 - The Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) has signed a decree to reserve, for seven years, a 103,546-ha site in the Amur Province for the construction of the Vostochny spaceport. T
Beijing, China (XNA) Jan 13, 2010 - The nation's top science and technology award for 2009 has been presented to two scientists who have made great contributions to the country's space development.
Washington (AFP) Jan 13, 2010 - A senior US defense official on Wednesday voiced doubts about China's insistence that its use of space is for peaceful means as Washington appealed for steady military ties with the rising Asian power.
