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BBC News
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An advanced satellite that will improve greatly the ability of UK military forces to communicate around the globe has been launched into space.
The Skynet 5C platform rode into orbit atop an Ariane 5 rocket from the Kourou spaceport in French Guiana...
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BBC News
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High-resolution satellite images have revealed the "rapid deforestation" of Papua New Guinea's biodiversity rich rainforests over the past 30 years.
An international team of researchers estimates that the current rate of loss could result in more than..
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BBC News
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Ten walruses in Greenland have been fitted with satellite tags in a new bid to confirm whether the blubbery beasts spend their summers in Canada.
Last year, the same team tagged eight walruses in west Greenland; however, all but one of the sat-tags fai..
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BBC News
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Giove-B, a test satellite for Europe's Galileo system, has sent its first navigation signals back to Earth.
The European Space Agency (Esa) says the transmission is an "historic step", showing that Galileo will be able to work alongside the US GPS system..
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BBC News
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A demonstrator satellite for Europe's proposed Galileo satellite navigation system is "in good health" despite a glitch shortly after launch.
Controllers were unable to use their preferred method for turning the spacecraft and instead had to fire the t..
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BBC News
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A demonstrator spacecraft for Europe's proposed Galileo satellite navigation system has launched from Kazakhstan.
The Giove-B satellite was taken into space atop a Soyuz rocket which left Earth at 2216 GMT, Saturday.
The demonstrator will test the k..
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BBC News
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Vietnam has taken a major step into the space age with the launch of its first telecommunications satellite.
The VINASAT-1 was put into orbit by an Ariane 5 rocket, flying from Europe's Kourou spaceport in French Guiana.
The spacecraft is part of a..
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BBC News
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Europe's largest space company, EADS Astrium, looks set to acquire the British satellite manufacturer SSTL.
Surrey Satellite Technology Limited started as a spin-out from the University of Surrey in 1995.
It has become the world's leading manufactur..
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BBC News
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A Russian Proton rocket has failed to place a US telecommunications satellite in the correct orbit.
The AMC-14 spacecraft, owned by SES Americom, was supposed to have been put 36,000km above the Earth but only got to 28,000km, launch officials say...
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MSNBC
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Giant chunks of manmade space junk — like the dead satellite that the U.S. government is trying to shoot down — regularly fall to Earth. Yet no one has ever been reported hurt by them.
Chunks of debris weighing two tons or more from satellites and..
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BBC News
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India has successfully launched an Israeli spy satellite into orbit, officials at the Sriharikota space station in southern India say.
The Israeli press is reporting that the satellite will improve Israel's ability to monitor Iran's military activities..
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BBC News
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The Sea Launch company has returned to flight with a mission to loft a telecoms satellite to serve the Middle East and the Asia-Pacific region.
The firm's Zenit 3SL rocket lifted off from its converted oil rig platform stationed in the Pacific at 1149..
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BBC News
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The UK company that built the test satellite for Europe's Galileo network is joining forces with a German firm to bid together to build more satellites.
SSTL believes the link-up will drive down costs and speed up production by boosting competition amo..
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BBC News
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The UK is due to continue the upgrade to its military satellite communications system with the launch of a new spacecraft on Friday.
The Skynet 5B platform will ride into orbit atop an Ariane 5 rocket from the Kourou spaceport, in French Guiana.
It..
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BBC News
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Ceremonies are being held in Russia to mark the 50th anniversary of the start of the space age - the launch of the first satellite, Sputnik.
Former Soviet cosmonauts, engineers and officials are taking part in events recalling what is considered one of..
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SF Gate
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Oct. 4, 1957: The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 1, the world's first satellite, to open the Space Age and challenge the United States to a new Cold War race.
Jan. 31, 1958: The United States responds with the successful launch of its Explorer 1 satelli..
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BBC News
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A satellite that can measure tiny variations in the Earth's gravity field will be one of Europe's most challenging space missions to date.
Goce, due for launch next year, looks like a spyplane from a movie.
Its arrow shape, fins, and electric engine..
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BBC News
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Satellite data confirms glaciers on the Antarctic Peninsula are flowing faster.
British Antarctic Survey (BAS) scientists used Europe's ERS-1 and -2 spacecraft to track the flow rate of over 300 "ice rivers".
They found a 12% increase in the speed o..
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BBC News
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China has successfully launched a communications satellite for Nigeria.
The official Xinhua news agency says it is the first time that a foreign buyer has purchased both a Chinese satellite and its launching service.
The Nigerian Communication Satel..
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BBC News
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India's first commercial rocket has been launched into space.
The rocket, a Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV), took off from the Sriharikota base in southern India at 1530 Indian time (1000 GMT).
It is carrying a 352kg Italian satellite which wi..
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