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Canada’s military will provide search-and-rescue repeaters for the U.S. Air Force’s next-generation GPS timing and navigation satellites that will significantly cut down on the time it takes to...
European scientists agreed to finance a satellite to measure the biomass and carbon stored in the world’s forests despite the fact that data collection over North America and Europe will be...
The debut of the Antares Cygnus spacecraft will slip at least to August and possibly to September as Orbital replaces an engine on the freighter’s Antares carrier rocket.
Europe’s new Vega small rocket on May 6 successfully conducted its second launch, giving flight-proven status to a new guidance and control system, a new payload adaptor and the rocket’s ability to...
Indosat of Indonesia has selected Orbital Sciences Corp. to build the mixed C- and Ku-band Palapa E telecommunications satellite to be launched in 2016.
Texus has been grounded following suspected defects in the launch tower guide rails that help aim the rudderless vehicle to assure its payload lands in a specified area.
Great civilizations have always expanded frontiers by exploring the unknown. For so many reasons it is vital that America continues to lead in space exploration and development.
In a game of chicken, U.S. leaders have slashed the accounts of high-profile and much-desired programs — eliminating some critical military training, cutting flight and maintenance hours, cutting...
NASA’s asteroid capture plan must pass reality check.
EMC will own the 24-beam Ka-band payload on Arabsat’s Badr 7 satellite, launching in late 2015 into Riyadh, Saudi Arabia-based Arabsat’s 26 degrees east orbital slot.







