Kourou, French Guiana (SPX) Mar 19, 2009 - The assembly of another new Ariane 5 is now underway at the Spaceport in French Guiana as parallel preparations advance for two upcoming missions with Arianespace's workhorse heavy-lift launcher.
Minneapolis MN (SPX) Mar 19, 2009 - Alliant Techsystems has announced that it awarded United Space Alliance (USA) a $257 Million contract to perform subcontractor support to ATK for the NASA's Ares I and Ares 1-X programs through the Design, Development, Test and Engineering (DDT and E) phase.
Cape Canaveral FL (SPX) Mar 19, 2009 - The U.S. Air Force launch of a United Launch Alliance's Atlas V Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle carrying the second Wideband Global SATCOM satellite was scrubbed March 17 after the launch team detected an anomalous leak rate in the Centaur upper stage oxidizer valve.
Birmingham AL (SPX) Mar 18, 2009 - The newest generation of compact research freezers is performing well in space and have already boosted the scientific capacity of the International Space Station (ISS), said engineers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB).
Stockholm (AFP) March 18, 2009 - Short tourist flights into space are expected to begin launching from northern Sweden in 2012, one of the companies involved in the project said Wednesday.
Paris (UPI) Mar 18, 2009 - The European Space Agency says it has postponed the Herschel and Planck spacecraft launch that was initially planned for April 16.
Washington (AFP) March 17, 2009 - The shuttle Discovery sped towards a Tuesday rendezvous with the International Space Station (ISS) after NASA concluded the orbiting laboratory was no longer at risk from a piece of space junk that had put astronauts on high alert.
Washington (AFP) March 17, 2009 - Soaring through space, Discovery's astronauts greeted colleagues from the International Space Station after the shuttle docked to deliver the ISS' first Japanese crewmember and key parts to finish the station's construction.
Moscow (AFP) March 17, 2009 - A pioneering European satellite designed to map Earth's gravity field was launched Tuesday from the Plesetsk site in northern Russia, space officials said.
Windsor Locks CT (SPX) Mar 17, 2009 - Hamilton Sundstrand equipment is playing a key role in NASA's STS-119 mission to the International Space Station. Hamilton Sundstrand is a subsidiary of United Technologies.
Cape Canaveral, Florida (AFP) March 16, 2009 - After a successful liftoff, the US space shuttle Discovery headed for the International Space Station early Monday, carrying a final pair of solar panels due to be installed ahead of the arrival of an expanded space crew.
Washington (AFP) March 16, 2009 - A piece of space junk from a Soviet satellite does not pose a threat to the International Space Station or the Discovery shuttle as it races through space to dock with it, NASA said Monday.
Washington (AFP) March 16, 2009 - US and Russian experts Monday weighed moving the International Space Station to dodge a potentially dangerous piece of space junk as the shuttle Discovery rocketed toward the orbiting laboratory.
Cape Canaveral, Fla. (UPI) Mar 15, 2009 - NASA scientists discussed options Monday following a problem that occurred during the weekend when space shuttle Discovery's aft fuel tanks were being vented.
Promontory UT (SPX) Mar 14, 2009 - The final pieces of the Ares I-X flight test rocket left the Alliant Tech Systems manufacturing facility in Promontory, Utah, Thursday and began a 2,917-mile journey to its launch site at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Hampton VA (SPX) Mar 14, 2009 - NASA is working on the building blocks to return humans to the Moon by 2020, then send them onto Mars. It's part of the national Vision for Space Exploration established five years ago. Just what is America's plan and is it the right one? Four international experts will address those questions and others in a special Moon-Mars Forum, March 17, from 7-9 p.m. at the Virginia Air and Space Center in downtown Hampton.
