An Atlas 2AS rocket launched from Florida's Cape Canaveral on Friday morning, carrying a Japanese Superbird-6 communications satellite into orbit.…
NASA's Aura satellite - the latest in a series of Earth observing spacecraft - arrived at Vandenberg Air Force Base…
NASA ordered the Genesis spacecraft to close up its particle collectors this week, to prepare its sample-return capsule to enter…
The Gravity Probe B spacecraft, which is designed to test two predictions of Einstein's General Theory of Relativity, has been…
A Boeing Delta II rocket launched the 50th Global Positioning System (GPS) satellite on Saturday. The rocket lifted off from…
The NASA/ESA Ulysses spacecraft's power is starting to run down, and soon it won't have enough to keep itself warm.…
A Russian Proton rocket successfully launched the Eutelsat W3A satellite into orbit Monday evening. The Proton lifted off at 2306…
A Lockheed Martin-built Atlas III rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral on Saturday, lofting the MBSAT communications satellite into orbit…
NASA's workhorse satellite Landsat 5 recently passed the 20 year mark of operations, beating original estimates that it would only…
A Russian Soyuz rocket with a classified government cargo lifted off from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in far northern Russia. The…