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As private companies gain more ground in the space and satellite industry, a startup company from Las Vegas, Nev., is attempting to get in on the race by developing a commercial weather satellite.

Orbital Sciences Corporation has successfully conducted an extended-duration “hot fire” test of the first stage propulsion system of its new Antares medium-class rocket.

Singapore has announced its intentions to develop its satellite and space technology industry.

After almost three decades in orbit, the Landsat 5 satellite has set a new world record as the longest-operating Earth observation satellite.

In the aftermath of the Russian meteor explosion last week, the international scientific community has renewed the call to make U.S. military satellite data available since those same satellites also detect incoming meteoroid

NASA has announced the next commercial cargo resupply mission will take off on March 1.

Orbital Sciences Antares rocket. Image credit: Orbital Tags: Orbital Sciences, Budget Cuts, Satellite Launch Publication: News.Yahoo.com Publication Date: 02/19/2013 Orbital Sciences’ Michael Hamel, head of business development, has expressed his...

Orbcomm has announced it will relocate its corporate headquarters from Fort Lee, N.J. to Rochelle Park, N.J. today.

A weather satellite spotted the meteor that exploded the Ural Mountains in Russia early Friday morning. The object caused a sonic boom as it entered Earth’s atmosphere and injured hundreds of people in Russia’s Chelyabinsk region, approximately 930 miles east of Moscow.