Europe launches study into manned spacecraft scheme

The European Space Agency (ESA) said it had taken an important first step in a tentative…

EUTELSAT COMMUNICATIONS EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS OF 6 JULY 2009

The Extraordinary General Meeting of Shareholders of Eutelsat Communications (Euronext Paris: ETL), one of the world’s…

New NASA Satellite Survey Reveals Dramatic Arctic Sea Ice Thinning

Arctic sea ice thinned dramatically between the winters of 2004 and 2008, with thin seasonal ice…

NASA Research to Help Aircraft Avoid Ocean Storms, Turbulence

NASA is funding the development of a prototype system to provide aircraft with updates about severe…

U.S. manned space flight in doubt 40 years after moon walk

U.S. ambitions to send astronauts back to the moon as a prelude to missions to Mars…

Vatican should learn from Galileo mess, prelate says

The Catholic Church should not fear scientific progress and possibly repeat the mistake it made when…

Proba-2’s journey to Russia marks its first step towards space

Proba-2, one of the smallest satellites ESA has ever built for space, is about to leave…

NASA’s Fermi Telescope Probes Dozens of Pulsars

With NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, astronomers now are getting their best look at those whirling…

European rocket hoists biggest-ever telecoms satellite

A European rocket placed the world's biggest commercial telecommunications satellite into geostationary orbit, launch operator Arianespace…

ARIANESPACE MARKS 31ST CONSECUTIVE MISSION SUCCESS FOR ARIANE 5

Ariane 5 successfully lofted the world's largest commercial satellite, TerreStar-1, from the Spaceport in French Guiana…