Author: Staff Writer

The U.S. Air Force and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) performed a drop test of Airlaunch LLC‘s Quickreach launch vehicle from an Air Force C-17, the company announced...

The Space Shuttle Discovery will launch on July 1 despite concerns of safety and engineering officials that further redesign work should be performed before the space commuter goes aloft again,...

Satellite rivals Sirius Satellite Radio and XM Satellite Radio split the retail sales market in the 2006 second quarter, as the boost Sirius got from the addition of Howard Stern...

A Soyuz launch vehicle lifted from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan to place a Resurs-DK remote sensing spacecraft in orbit. It was the 1,709th launch of a Soyuz vehicle, according...

Echostar Communications Corp. and DirecTV Inc. will market satellite broadband Internet service offered by Wildblue Communications Inc., the companies announced June 9. As part of the agreements, Wildblue will be...

France and India are celebrating 25 years of collaboration on space programs at events in Paris. The celebration will include Arianspace, the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), and the French...

Less than a year ago, the final report of NASA‘s sweeping Exploration Systems Architecture study squashed the idea of using technology developed under the U.S. Air Force’s Evolved Expendable Launch...

The Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO) is slated for launch July 22, according to NASA. STEREO blastoff from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., is slated for 3:11 to 3:13...

Healing Hands International (HHI), a non-profit humanitarian organization, plans to use satellite imagery from Digitalglobe for planning and visualization efforts surrounding agricultural development and disaster relief missions in Africa and...

NASA selected Lockheed Martin Corp. [LMT] to provide an Atlas V rocket to launch the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) in 2009. The Atlas V 541 will lift off from Cape...