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An Atlas 5 rocket has launched from Florida with a satellite expected to provide high-powered video and data to much of the world.
NATO says two rockets were fired at the military part of Kabul's international airport, but did not cause any injuries.
Two of three parachutes malfunctioned in the test flight of a prototype moon rocket earlier this week, causing major damage to the booster, NASA said Friday.
NASA's newest rocket is on the verge of blasting off on a test flight, but minor problems are causing last-minute delays.
Two satellites are heading to orbit as part of a missile defense program demonstration.
The first test of NASA's powerful moon rocket went off without a problem Thursday as more than a million pounds of propellant ignited in a split second, sending a towering plume of sand and dust high into the Utah sky.
A mechanical failure forced a NASA contractor on Thursday to call off the first test firing of the main part of NASA's powerful new moon rocket.
South Korea's first rocket launch failed to push a satellite into orbit but may still anger rival North Korea, coming just months after the communist nation's own launch drew international condemnation.
South Korea prepared Tuesday to launch its first rocket, just four months after rival North Korea defiantly launched its own and quickly was slapped with U.N. sanctions.
An Orlando, Fla.-based avionics company successfully fired a low-altitude rocket Tuesday at a new spaceport in New Mexico where the state hopes to launch commercial space tourism flights within two years.
Police say five rockets have slammed into Kabul, injuring at least one child.
A homegrown Israeli missile defense system performed well in its first live trial, bringing down a short-range rocket similar to those used by Palestinian and Lebanese militants, an Israeli Defense Minister official said Wednesday.
Like a car salesman pushing a luxury vehicle that the customer no longer can afford, NASA has pulled out of its back pocket a deal for a cheaper ride to the moon.
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - When the Soviet Union was beating America’s pants off heaving cosmonauts into orbit, a young president named John Fitzgerald Kennedy called a handful of top space experts in and decided Americans would walk on the moon.
NASA launched its first moon shot in a decade Thursday, sending up a pair of unmanned science probes that will help determine where astronauts could land and set up camp in years to come.
In a May 15 story about the launch of the Herschel telescope in the Ariane-5 rocket, The Associated Press erroneously reported it was the largest telescope ever. The Herschel is the largest telescope ever launched into space.
A rocket carrying the largest telescope ever has launched into space on a mission that European scientists hope will help unravel the mystery of the universe's creation.
A Korean-American who served prison time for attempting to broker the sale of deadly nerve gas bombs to Iran was indicted Wednesday on new charges of trying to help South Korea obtain advanced Russian rocket hardware and technology.
Israel has successfully tested a high-tech system designed to protect civilians from rocket attacks by militant groups in Gaza and south Lebanon, the Defense Ministry said.
A 71-foot-long piece of Coney Island history will be part of a new entertainment complex in development for a boardwalk in New York City, officials announced Wednesday.
Japan on Friday launched the first satellite to monitor greenhouse gases worldwide, a tool to help scientists better judge where global warming emissions are coming from, and how much is being absorbed by the oceans and forests.
Most of the Hamas rockets targeted at Israel are rudimentary, cobbled together in small metal shops in densely populated Gaza. But a growing number are more sophisticated, longer-range weapons, believed made from parts thought to originate in Syria or Iran and smuggled in through tunnels from Egypt. Despite that new capacity, Hamas' missile arsenal is still much smaller than that of another anti-Israeli militant group, Hezbollah. The Lebanese group, also supported by Syria and Iran, is not fettered by a tight border blockade and finds it easier to obtain arms.
Banquet halls have canceled weddings, parents are holding makeshift day care centers in bomb shelters and motorists avoid driving during the day. As Hamas shells southern cities, hundreds of thousands of Israelis in rocket range are finding new ways of coping.
NASA officials said Wednesday it might be possible to try out its new moon rocketship a year earlier than its current target date of 2015.
Unfounded criticism of America's next-generation moon rocket is hurting NASA morale but hasn't stopped progress on the craft, the space agency's administrator Michael Griffin said Tuesday.
NASA�s Ares I-X Rocket Takes Off From Kennedy Space Center - NYTimes.comor first time since 1981, the rocket that took off from a launching pad here on Wednesday was not a space shuttle.
NASA Launches Ares I-XThe first test flight of the Ares I rocket. This one had a live first stage (essentially a shuttle solid rocket booster) and a dummy upper stage made of steel (with weight plates in it to get the mass and CG right).
The strangest moments in space launch history - Space.com- msnbc.comAt times, NASA's attempts to launch a new Ares I-X rocket Tuesday seemed surreal — with bad weather, a stuck sensor sock and a wayward cargo ship offshore appearing to conspire to prevent the booster's liftoff.
Weather Phenomenon Could Stall Rocket Launch -The first scheduled test launch of the $445 million Ares 1-X rocket is set for Tuesday morning, but there's still a chance bad weather could prevent the liftoff, including a chance that clouds could cause an unusual phenomenon that would leave the rocket uncontrollable.
Delta Rocket Launches Experimental Missile Tracking Spacecraft Cape Canaveral AFS, FL - A United Launch alliance Delta II rocket successfully deployed two experimental space-based missile tracking satellites into orbit this morning following launch from Cape Canaveral's Space Launch Complex 17-B.
Rocket launch prompts calls of strange lights in sky - CNN.com(CNN) -- A series of spooky lights above parts of the northeastern United States Saturday sparked a flurry of phone calls to authorities and television news stations. NASA said strange lights seen in the Northeast on Saturday were caused by an experimental rocket.
Kim Jong Il Reportedly Calls for Third Nuclear TestNorth Korean leader Kim Jong Il, during his most recent meeting with party and military leaders, reportedly gave instructions that the reclusive regime prepare for a third nuclear test, this time using enriched uranium, according to reports from Free Radio of North Korea, based i …
NASA Tests 5-Segment Solid Rocket Motor For Ares I First StagePROMONTORY, UT - NASA and industry engineers lit up the Utah sky Thursday with the initial full-scale, full-duration test firing of the first stage motor for the Ares I rocket. The Ares I is a crew launch vehicle in development for NASA's Constellation Program.
Maiden Japanese H-IIB Rocket Launches Space Station Resupply CraftTANEGASHIMA SPACE CENTER, JAPAN - Japan's space program scored a major success with the maiden launch of the new H-IIB rocket with an equally brand new resupply vehicle bound for the International Space Station, laying the groundwork for the future of Japan's unmanned and manned …
Atlas Rocket Launches Secret Communications SatelliteCAPE CANAVERAL, AFS - A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket successfully launched the top-secret PAN satellite at 5:35 p.m. EDT, today from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral. The Atlas V rocket carried a U.S.
Israel Shells Lebanese Village After Rockets Fired (Update2) - Bloomberg.comSept. 11 (Bloomberg) -- At least two rockets were launched from Lebanon into northern Israel today, and Israeli forces returned fire across the border, an Israeli Army spokesman said, speaking anonymously according to regulation.
NASA Tests Stage of New Rocket - NYTimes.comWith ferocious flames and smoke in the barren Utah hills north of Salt Lake City, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration on Thursday successfully test fired the first stage of a new rocket that might soon be canceled.
Shuttle Discovery Celebtrates 25th Anniversary With Spectacular Night Launch (With Video) KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL - Racing to orbit atop a manmade Sun through the midnight skies above Florida last night, space shuttle Discovery finally blasted off on a mission to deliver new science equipment and a now-famous treadmill to the International Space Station …
Is the Ares I rocket program dead?NASA has spent four years developing its next rocket, the Ares I, and is due to perform its first real test of the new system at the end of October. (For more background about Ares I and the Constellation program, see my recent interview with program manager Jeff Hanley).
Elon Musk ( Tesla, SpaceX, ) Wants Another Obama BailoutElon Musk is becoming a welfare case. Federal auto-industry loans helped save his electric-car company, Tesla. Now Musk wants another federal bailout for his embarrassing space startup. And he may well get it.
NASA Clears Discovery For Launch Next WeekKENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL - Despite ongoing concerns about foam insulation on space shuttle Discovery's external fuel tank, senior NASA managers today cleared the shuttle for launch next week on a mission to outfit the International Space Station.
Poisonous find in salad ruining German rocket farmers One week after news broke that a poisonous plant was found in a container of prepackaged rocket salad, producers of the plant are falling into ruin, it was reported Wednesday.
Delta 2 Rocket Successfully Launches Air Force GPS Satellite For The Final TimeCAPE 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.
Delta Launch To Mark Era's End At Cape CanaveralA 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.
A Soldier's Eye in the Sky - Hovering Drones, Sensors, & Rockets in a Box...the new drones, made by Honeywell, are designed to hover over a crucial spot on a battlefield like helicopters, instead of flying in a wide circle.
Poisonous plant found in supermarket salad A customer purchasing rocket salad at German supermarket Plus was surprised to find a poisonous plant in the package as well, the discount chain confirmed to The Local on Wednesday.
NASA Conducts Final Planned Space Shuttle Main Engine Test FiringWith 520 seconds of shake, rattle and roar on July 29, NASA's John C. Stennis Space Center marked the end of an era for testing the space shuttle main engines that have powered the nation's Space Shuttle Program for nearly three decades.
SpaceX Falcon 1 Rocket Successfully Orbits Malaysian SatelliteA Malaysian Earth imaging satellite was successfully delivered to orbit today on a Falcon 1 launch vehicle built by Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX), marking the company's first commercial success with the fifth flight of its Falcon 1 rocket.
Rocket reaches Mach 1 on renewable fuel Renewable jet propellant-8 (JP-8) fuel developed and produced by the Energy & Environmental Research Center (EERC) at the University of North Dakota was successfully flown in a rocket built by Flometrics, Inc., a product engineering company specializing in fluid dynamics and th …
Ejecting Charged Nanoparticles Might Allow Spaceships to Move at Near-Light SpeedEach emitter works a bit like an tiny particle accelerator: The anode of the emitter charges the nanoparticles, which are then accelerated and then shot out a tube by a strong magnetic field generated by a stack of microchip-like components.
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