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A circular solar array for the next-generation Orion U.S. space capsule, and a flexible wing reflector array for the Inmarsat 4 F3 satellite, both deployed correctly, companies announced. In the...

A Russian Soyuz spacecraft launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome yesterday to take a new crew to the International Space Station for a half-year stay in orbit. That crew includes Expedition 18...

NASA still will try to launch the Mars Science Laboratory about a year from now, rather than waiting for another window two years later, even though provision of some hardware...

Updated — October 9, 2008 – 12:50 p.m. EDT Legend: + Targeted For | *No Earlier Than (Tentative) | **To Be Determined 2008 Launches Date: Oct. 19 Mission: IBEX Launch...

Orbital Sciences Corp. [ORB] completed final testing on the SES New Skies NSS-9 commercial communications satellite, the company announced. The engineering team completed pre-shipment procedures for the satellite, which will...

Space Systems/Loral Gains Contract To Provide Satellite For SES SES, the European satellite operator, will buy another Loral satellite. Space Systems/Loral (SS/L), a subsidiary of Loral Space & Communications [LORL]...

Defense spending on weapons systems may not plummet in the next several years, despite some pundits asserting that huge federal budget deficits, an imploding economy and nosediving federal revenues mean...

Lockheed Martin Corp. [LMT] delivered the core structure including a propulsion subsystem for the first Navy Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) satellite, the company announced today. It is the largest...

The Laser Guided Rocket (LGR) passed a wind tunnel test, Raytheon Co. [RTN] reported. That tunnel operation produced both high fidelity flight simulations and data for developing the aerodynamic model...

A full-scale model of the James Webb Space telescope today goes on display at a museum in Germany, Northrop Grumman Corp. [NOC] announced. The full-scale model will remain on display...