International

The founder of the Cirque du Soleil circus will become a space tourist, according to Space Adventures, Ltd. The firm arranges trips to the International Space Station aboard Russian Soyuz […]

The RazakSAT satellite launch atop a Falcon 1 rocket has been rescheduled to 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. ET on July 13 or 14, Space Exploration Technologies Inc. (SpaceX) announced. […]

Germany commissioned Astrium, a unit of the European Aeronautic Defence and Space Co. (EADS), to study the feasibility of robotic moon landings. In contrast, the United States, China and perhaps […]

The European Space Agency (ESA) extended the Envisat Earth-scanning satellite mission to 2013, ESA announced. That satellite beams down data it has gathered since its launch in 2002. Envisat, short […]

The European Space Agency (ESA) is developing technologies that it hopes one day could result in a machine to convert human feces and urine, and exhaled carbon dioxide, into usable […]

Lockheed Martin [LMT], the Australian College of Kuwait (ACK) and the National Offset Company (NOC) announced the premiere of a state-of-the- art Maritime Simulation and Training Facility at the ACK […]

Sweden’s Saab Monday said it signed a contract worth about $24 million with Lockheed Martin [LMT] Canada, to upgrade the 2D radar, Sea Giraffe 150 HC for the modernization of […]

ATK [ATK] and Israel’s Elbit Systems [ESLT] Monday said they have successfully conducted flight tests in Israel of the Guided Advanced Tactical Rocket (GATR). “In a recent demonstration, conducted in […]

By Calvin Biesecker The wide range of differences along the Northern and Southern borders of the United States requires different technology solutions to meet the country’s border surveillance needs, according […]

A Russian Soyuz spaceship carrying three travelers docked with the International Space Station, meaning that the station crew size for the first time was doubled to six people from the […]