Space

VIIRS Thermal Vacuum Tests Among Advances NASA Gives Northrop CERES Sensor Contract Northrop Grumman Corp. [NOC] completed the initial step toward the critical design review (CDR) for the National Polar-orbiting […]

A Russian Soyuz spacecraft will launch next week with three space travelers — a Russian, a Japanese and a Canadian — who will initiate the first six-person crew aboard the […]

Arianespace launched the Herschel-Planck satellites atop an Ariane 5 heavy lifter rocket, rising from the European spaceport in French Guiana, South America. That liftoff came after two postponements. The two […]

Updated — May 15, 2009 – 11:40 a.m. EDT Legend: + Targeted For | *No Earlier Than (Tentative) | **To Be Determined 2009 Launches Date: June 13 + Mission: STS-127 […]

Updated — May 8, 2009 – 4:15 p.m. EDT Legend: + Targeted For | *No Earlier Than (Tentative) | **To Be Determined 2009 Launches Date: May 11 Mission: STS-125 Launch […]

Space Systems/Loral (SS/L), a subsidiary of Loral Space & Communications [LORL] will provide a new communications satellite, AsiaSat 5C, to Asia Satellite Telecommunications Co. Ltd. (AsiaSat). AsiaSat 5C will serve […]

SKY Perfect JSAT Corp. hired Arianespace to provide an Ariane 5 heavy lifter rocket to launch the JCSAT-13 communications satellite in 2013, Arianespace announced. The JCSAT-13 contract is the 27th […]

NASA gave Anadarko Industries LLC a $37 million contract to provide safety and fire maintenance services at Johnson Space Center, home of mission control. Anadarko Industries will provide test safety […]

Ground was broken for an expansion on a Patriot Advanced Capability-3 missile factory at Camden, Ark., Lockheed Martin Corp. [LMT] announced. The new facility will allow for continued production expansion […]

It’s a blast. Space Shuttle Atlantis this afternoon thundered into the heavens from Launch Pad 39A at Kennedy Space Center for a rendezvous with an eye in the sky, the […]