South Korea’s President Lee Myung-bak made a surprise visit to his country’s Naro Space Center today to rally the space program’s workforce. On Tuesday, South Korea’s first attempt to launch …
The test of the Ares-1 solid rocket motor has been scrubbed for today. On Twitter, space policy analyst Jeff Foust reports that it was an APU problem. Check back here …
The National Research Council (NRC) has approved the appointment of an additional member of the Mars Panel of the Decadal Survey on Planetary Science. Philippe Lognonn , Institut de Physique …
NASA has again delayed the launch of space shuttle Discovery on its STS-128 mission. The delay is just shy of 24 hours. The new launch date is still tomorrow, Friday, …
NASA’s lunar impact mission, LCROSS, suffered an anomaly over the weekend that could threaten its mission, according to media sources. The Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) was launched …
NASA has again postponed the launch of space shuttle Discovery on its STS-128 mission. The launch had been rescheduled to 01:10 EDT Wednesday, Aug. 26, after a weather-related scrub earlier …
South Korean officials have revealed that the satellite launched yesterday on the country’s first space launch did not enter orbit. Yonhap News Service quoted Kim Jung-hyun, Vice Science and Technology …
The New York Times has a story today about the possible results of the Augustine committee report, which it says will not be released until mid-September. Among others quoted in …
Thunderstorms delayed the launch of space shuttle Discovery on its STS-128 mission. A new attempt is currently scheduled for Wednesday at 01:10 EDT. Meanwhile, the taped video message from Stephen …
South Korea launched its KSLV-1 launch vehicle from the Naro Space Center at 5:00 pm August 25 local time, but the satellite did not reach the intended orbit according to …