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Iran successfully tested a missile that could loft a satellite into space, an official Iranian website announced yesterday, quoting Mohsen Bahrami, head of the Iranian aerospace research center. That is...

NASA issued a request for proposal for the upper stage of the Ares I launch vehicle, telling contractors that proposals must be submitted by 1 p.m. CT April 13. Ares...

Alleged Russian fears that a U.S.-provided European ballistic missile defense (BMD) system would threaten Russian intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) are baseless and ludicrous, according to Air Force Lt. Gen. Henry...

Sea Launch is rebounding from an explosion last month of a Zenit 3SL rocket vehicle carrying an NSS-8 satellite built by The Boeing Co. [BA], Robert Peckham, Sea Launch president...

Contractors that are to build Galileo, the European global positioning system, have dithered far too long in deciding how their joint company shall be structured, according to Wolfgang Tiefensee, German...

The TacSat-2 spacecraft is operating well now after initial difficulties were resolved. In the first few days of flight, there were difficulties that the program team resolved rapidly. Orbiting approximately...

The Aerospace Industries Association (AIA) is opposing a move to tighten controls on exports of goods containing sensitive export technologies. Further, the AIA Acquisition Policy group said it is allied...

Atlantis Crew Whips Through Rehearsal Facing a scheduled March 15 liftoff, the crew of Space Shuttle Atlantis sliced through a full launch dress rehearsal at Kennedy Space Center, Fla., NASA...

NASA gave Hamilton Sundstrand, a unit of United Technologies Corp. [UTC], a maximum $5 million contract for work on the Ares I crew expeditionary vehicle that will replace the space...

Spacehab Inc. [SPAB] asked for a formal dismissal with prejudice of all litigation against NASA relating to losses incurred by the company as a result of the 2003 Space Shuttle...