A piece of rocket hardware failed to separate during the launch of a NASA climate satellite earlier this year, causing it crash back to Earth, according to an accident summary released Friday.
The world's largest commercial satellite was launched into space Wednesday, with a mission to provide phone service to cellular "dead zones" in North America.
A sophisticated new weather satellite rocketed into orbit Saturday, giving forecasters another powerful tool for tracking hurricanes and tornadoes.
Department of Defense officials say an experimental satellite for the U.S. missile defense program has been successfully launched.
China fired into orbit Wednesday its second satellite in a program to build an alternative to the global positioning system based on U.S. satellites.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Tuesday that Iran planned to launch a "more sophisticated" satellite into orbit, another potential step forward for the country's space program that have raised concerns in the West.
Orbit or ocean?
The U.S. intelligence chief and the Pentagon are asking the Obama administration to approve a new top secret spy satellite program that could cost more than $10 billion.
Russia's military Space Forces said Friday they were tracking fragments from a derelict military satellite that has partially disintegrated in orbit to make sure the debris poses no threat the international space station.
A European Space Agency research satellite is on its way into orbit after being launched aboard a Russian rocket.
Iridium Satellite LLC said Monday that it has moved a spare satellite into the orbit of the one that was destroyed in a collision with a Russian satellite a month ago.
A new satellite to track the chief culprit in global warming crashed into the ocean near Antarctica after launch Tuesday, dealing a major setback to NASA's already weak network for monitoring Earth and its environment from above.
Iran's state-run English language network says the Cabinet has approved a Central Bank proposal to feature the logo of the country's first domestically built satellite on new coins and bank notes.
In a Feb. 11 story about the collision of two satellites, The Associated Press erroneously reported that Iridium Holdings LLC is owned by the New York-based investment firm Greenhill & Co. through a subsidiary, GHL Acquisition Corp. Privately held Iridium has agreed to be acquired by GHL, but the deal has not yet closed.
The crash of two satellites has generated an estimated tens of thousands of pieces of space junk that could circle Earth and threaten other satellites for the next 10,000 years, space experts said Friday.
The chief of Russia's Mission Control says clouds of debris from the collision between U.S. and Russian communications satellites will circle Earth for thousands of years and threaten numerous satellites.
A rocket carrying a U.S. global weather satellite has blasted off from California's Vandenberg Air Force Base.
Russia's military said Wednesday that an old Soviet-built nuclear-powered satellite has spewed fragments in orbit, but insisted they do not threaten the international space station or people on Earth.
Japan's Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. said Monday it has signed an agreement to send a South Korean satellite into orbit, the first commercial order for use of a Japanese-made rocket.
A Nigerian communications satellite built and launched by China has been knocked out of service due to a power failure, a spokeswoman for China's launch services provider said Thursday.
Chinese and Venezuelan scientists hovered over radar screens, a Russian combat jet flew overhead and satellite dishes tilted toward the skies as Venezuela tracked the launch of its first satellite on Wednesday.
A rocket carrying an Italian Earth-observation satellite blasted off Friday evening from the California coast.
Russia successfully launched three satellites Thursday to enhance its space navigation system, officials said.
A super-sharp Earth-imaging satellite that can detail an area the size of a baseball diamond's home plate from space has been launched into orbit from Vandenberg Air Force Base on the Central California coast.
A rocket carrying a U.S.-French ocean-monitoring satellite lifted off early Friday from the central California coast.