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.
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.
India's first lunar mission has captured images of the landing site of the Apollo 15 craft, debunking theories that the US mission was a hoax, the country's state-run space agency said Wednesday.
There is an absolutely fantastic podcast / radio show on Sirius satellite radio here in the States that is gone now. World Soccer Daily decided to shut operations due to a concerted campaign by a group of Liverpool fans attempting to drive the show off the air.
Australia's newest telecommunications satellite has successfully blasted into space on an Ariane 5 rocket.
On August 17th, the FCC published a few documents that reveal that Sirius XM Radio Inc. are preparing to release a new product entitled the Sirius XM SkyDock.
CAPE CANAVERAL AFS, FL - A twenty-year era ended at Cape Canaveral today with the 48th successful launch by a Delta II rocket of a an Air Force Delta II Global Positioning System satellite.
A twenty-year era of Air Force Global Positioning System Satellite launches on the Delta 2 rocket is about to come to an end with Monday morning's scheduled launch of the final second-generation GPS satellite from the Cape Canaveral spaceport in Florida.
UK-DMC2 was launched with a twin spacecraft, Deimos-1, on a Dnepr rocket from Kazakhstan last month. The platforms have joined the Disaster Monitoring Constellation, which is used to obtain rapid information about areas struck by natural calamities.
Optus today said it would launch a new satellite from French Guiana on August 22 and that its customer base was being boosted by iPhone and other smartphone subscriptions.
See my review of Satellite's earlier release, Into the Night. Nostalgia was released by Metal Mind Productions on 23rd February 2009 in Europe / 10th March 2009 in USA. The album is available in two formats: a standard CD and a digipak CD with two bonus tracks.
Slingbox is a very clever device that lets you "broadcast" an audio/video signal via your high-speed Internet connection and watch the result on any PC connected to the Internet.
A long time ago, but not so very long ago, there was a time when if we needed to get in touch with someone that was out, we had to wait until they got home. Not too much later after that, we had wait for them to get home, and then check their answering machine.
MONTGOMERY, Al - Having had an unquenchable curiosity most of my life, and a certain knack for being around history as it happens, I found my instincts drawing me to the epicenter of this confrontation for a firsthand, eyewitness account of the clock ticking down to the federally …
One of the most remote communities in the lower 48 states is finally set to get phone service.
I am a member of the generation born during the years of the Apollo space program. Growing up in the 1970s in science class and in science fair projects, we were building model rockets. Dad bought me a telescope when he went to the US for a visit in 1977.
The US space agency's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spacecraft has returned its first images since reaching the Moon on 23 June. The probe's two cameras returned images of a region in the lunar highlands south of Mare Nubium (Sea of Clouds).
OPTUS today confirmed it will launch its D3 satellite, which will be used to provide more pay-TV channels, in mid-August.
Russia not as willing to work with the Iranian Space Agency this time around Despite working with the growing Iranian space program in the past, a senior Russian space official said the country won't help Iran launch another satellite into orbit any time soon.
The most complete terrain map of the Earth's surface has been published.
This article discusses how and when to spot satellites with the naked eyes or binoculars.
Weather balloons may soon provide the first affordable broadband Internet access to the one-billion-strong African mass market.
North Korea today warned that it would launch a "merciless" attack if provoked by the US and its allies, hours after President Barack Obama described the state's nuclear and missile programmes as a "grave threat" to the world. More Articles
Here's a checklist to make sure you'll have TV reception after analog broadcasts end Friday.
Barack Obama is undoubtedly a gifted orator and a charismatic figure. Islamic terrorism and the global economic crisis have added impetus to his success. Rhetorically talented and charismatic figures usually flourish in crises. But will rhetoric and charisma help Mr.
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