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Candidate landing sites selected for ESA Mars rover
The European Space Agency has announced four candidate landing sites for the ExoMars rover, as a deadline looms to secure full funding for the mission in time for a scheduled launch to the red planet in 2018.
UrtheCast says it will be largest commercial ISS user
Officials with Canadian Earth observation company UrtheCast, which owns two cameras on the International Space Station's Russian service module, outlined plans to install a remote sensing camera and a radar imaging payload on the outpost's U.S.-owned Tranquility module in 2017.
Orbital weeks away from Antares first stage decision
Orbital Sciences Corp. plans to select a long-term propulsion supplier for the Antares rocket used to launch cargo to the International Space Station in the next few weeks, in time to include a potentially redesigned launcher in a bid for a follow-on NASA resupply contract.
Boeing, SpaceX told to stop work under crew contracts
NASA has directed Boeing and SpaceX to halt activities under contracts awarded last month to build commercial space taxis to ferry astronauts to the Space Station while the U.S. Government Accountability Office reviews a protest of NASA's decision filed by Sierra Nevada.
India, NASA plot science campaign for Mars orbiters
Officials working on India's Mars orbiter project are finalizing plans for a six-month science campaign after the spacecraft arrived in orbit last week, an achievement that has already satisfied the mission's primary objectives, the head of India's space agency said.
Construction of Texas launch site to begin next year
SpaceX broke ground on a new commercial spaceport on the shores of South Texas, committing to the construction of the world's first privately-owned satellite launch pad scheduled to be operational as soon as late 2016.
Mysterious satellite launched from Florida by Atlas 5 rocket
Rocketing through gloomy skies with a payload clouded in a veil of secrecy, a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket fired away from Cape Canaveral on Tuesday to deploy a satellite thousands of miles above Earth.
VideoWaterside view of Delta 4 GPS 2F-6 Launch
Spectacular video of the twilight launch of a United Launch Alliance Delta 4 rocket carrying the GPS 2F-6 navigation satellite on May 16, 2014.