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Atlantis Now Blasts Off At 10:19 P.M. ET On Oct. 14, While Endeavour Will Launch At 7:07 P.M. ET Nov. 16, NASA Announces NASA delayed its next two space shuttle...

Congress Gives KEI Program Full Appropriations Funding Of $386 Million, As Bush Requested The Kinetic Energy Interceptor (KEI) ballistic missile interceptor system, in a successful rocket motor test last week,...

A Minotaur II rocket launched to support the Missile Defense Agency Near-Field Infrared Experiment (NFIRE), Orbital Sciences Corp. [ORB] announced. That launch for the Air Force Space and Missile Systems...

Sea Launch is poised to launch the Intelsat Galaxy 19 satellite on Wednesday, Sea Launch announced. A 72-hour countdown is underway at the launch site. All systems and personnel are...

A Galaxy 19 satellite for Intelsat was lofted to orbit by a Zenit-3SL rocket that lifted off the Sea Launch Odyssey platform at the Equator, Space Systems/Loral, the satellite provider,...

Updated — September 26 – 9:20 a.m. EDT Legend: + Targeted For | *No Earlier Than (Tentative) | **To Be Determined 2008 Launches Date: October + Mission: TacSat-3 Launch Vehicle:...

The European Space Council urged greater coordination between civil and defense programs. Europeans called for further dialogue on the issue, including the European Space Agency as a participant. The Europeans...

Space Coast Launch Services Receives $40.2 Million Air Force Contract Change The Air Force gave Space Coast Launch Services a $40.2 million contract change for launch operations support. Space Coast...

The Phoenix lander, a plucky geologist unlocking many mysteries of Mars, is laboring away and still producing rich scientific finds as it faces a death sentence, NASA briefers said this...

The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has revealed hundreds of small fractures exposed on the Martian surface that billions of years ago directed flows of water through underground Martian sandstone, NASA reported....