Three officials of the company that manufactures Proton rockets have been fired because of the Proton launch failure last month. The fate of Russian government officials is pending. A Proton-M …
Orbital Sciences Corporation announced today that the test launch of its Antares rocket with a Cygnus spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS) is now targeted for September 17 instead of …
A day before NASA holds a pre-launch press briefing about its latest Moon probe, the Washington Post’s Capital Weather Gang (CWG) has posted a stunning photograph of the “Blue Moon” over …
European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Luca Parmitano shares chilling details of what transpired on July 16, 2013 when his spacesuit helmet filled with water during a spacewalk in a blog …
NASA and 11 other space agencies released an updated Global Exploration Roadmap (GER) today that quite prominently includes human missions to the surface of the Moon as part of a …
Instead of celebrating the return to flight of its GSLV rocket today, the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) is trying to determine what caused a second stage leak that resulted …
The dizzying images of swirling clouds in NOAA’s fast-paced video may make you wish you’d taken some Dramamine first, but it is a nifty salute to the GOES-12 weather satellite upon its retirement. …
The following space policy events may be of interest in the weeks ahead. It’s a quiet time in the space policy world as many people squeeze in last minute vacations …
China is the midst of conducting unusual satellite maneuvers involving a new satellite launched last month and an older satellite in orbit for eight years. Exactly what capabilities the Chinese …
Purely by coincidence, if all goes according to plan September 15 will be a big day for a venerable Russian rocket recovering from a recent spectacular failure as well as …