http://www.mail.com/subjects/1837786-space-launches.html Mail.com - the best personalized free web-based Email en en http://sec-s.uicdn.com/mail.com/2.28/img/mailcom_logo_rss.png http://www.mail.com/subjects/1837786-space-launches.html http://www.mail.com/news/us/2088678-gps-satellite-launched-space-florida.html CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A new GPS satellite has been launched into space. An unmanned Atlas V rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station this afternoon. It was the fifth time since December that an unmanned Atlas V rocket has been launched. The GPS 2F-4 spacecraft will join a constellation of other satellites circling already orbiting 11,... Wed, 15 May 2013 21:49:29 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/2088678-gps-satellite-launched-space-florida.html 2013-05-15T21:49:29Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2087306-students-ghana-launch-mini-satellite.html KOFORIDUA, Ghana (AP) — Their project might not sound like much: The college students on Wednesday launched a tiny model of a satellite the size of a soda can on a big yellow balloon. It went aloft to a height of 165 meters (yards) and then came back down attached to a parachute. Yet in this developing West African country, ambitious organizers, —who rece... Wed, 15 May 2013 20:20:54 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2087306-students-ghana-launch-mini-satellite.html 2013-05-15T20:20:54Z http://www.mail.com/business/economy/2054086-russia-charging-nasa-70-rocket-seat.html CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA is paying $424 million more to Russia to get U.S. astronauts into space, and the agency's leader is blaming Congress for the extra expense. NASA announced its latest contract with the Russian Space Agency on Tuesday. The $424 million represents flights to and from the International Space Station aboard Russian Soyuz spacec... Tue, 30 Apr 2013 21:18:07 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/economy/2054086-russia-charging-nasa-70-rocket-seat.html 2013-04-30T21:18:07Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/2040200-trial-md-man-iran-satellite-case.html GREENBELT, Md. (AP) — The case against an Iranian-American man accused of helping Iran launch its first satellite may sound like a James Bond movie but it's a real life drama, a prosecutor said Tuesday as trial opened. Nader Modanlo, 52, is accused of brokering a deal to help Iran launch the earth observation satellite from Russia. Prosecutors say the Mar... Tue, 23 Apr 2013 22:47:47 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/2040200-trial-md-man-iran-satellite-case.html 2013-04-23T22:47:47Z http://www.mail.com/business/finance/2026864-east-coast-test-rocket-launch-scrubbed.html WALLOPS ISLAND, Va. (AP) — A private company hired by NASA to make supply runs to the International Space Station scrubbed a Wednesday test launch of an unmanned rocket, saying an important data cord linked to the rocket's second stage detached too soon. The towering Antares rocket had been scheduled to blast off Wednesday afternoon from Wallops Island on... Thu, 18 Apr 2013 00:05:16 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/finance/2026864-east-coast-test-rocket-launch-scrubbed.html 2013-04-18T00:05:16Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2016756-north-korea-crisis.html As the world waits and watches for an expected North Korean ballistic missile test, the U.S. and its allies are prepared to respond. U.S. officials are conceding that North Korea may be increasing its nuclear capabilities, but they don't expect a nuclear strike. They suggest that other military moves by Pyongyang involving artillery attacks or shelling of nearby South Korean... Sat, 13 Apr 2013 21:01:27 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2016756-north-korea-crisis.html 2013-04-13T21:01:27Z http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1985326-us-russian-crew-blasts-space-station.html BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan (AP) — A Russian spacecraft carrying a three-man crew blasted off Friday from a launch pad in the steppes of Kazakhstan, for the first time taking a shorter path to the International Space Station. Instead of the two-day approach maneuver used by Soyuz spacecraft in the past, this journey to the station would take NASA astronaut Chris... Thu, 28 Mar 2013 21:13:13 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1985326-us-russian-crew-blasts-space-station.html 2013-03-28T21:13:13Z http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1966076-us-military-satellite-launched-orbit.html CAPE CANAVERAL AIR FORCE STATION, Fla. (AP) — An unmanned rocket has launched a new U.S. military satellite into orbit. The Atlas V (five) rocket lifted off Tuesday afternoon from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station carrying the second satellite of four planned in the Space-Based Infrared System. The spacecraft will provide early missile warning, missile def... Tue, 19 Mar 2013 23:04:32 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1966076-us-military-satellite-launched-orbit.html 2013-03-19T23:04:32Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1949572-us-institute-quiet-nkorea-test-sites.html WASHINGTON (AP) — Recent satellite imagery shows no sign that North Korea is readying another long-range rocket launch within the next month or another nuclear test, a U.S. research institute said Tuesday. North Korea has said it would conduct more rocket launches and has also hinted at a follow-up to its Feb. 12 atomic test. In recent days, the North has... Tue, 12 Mar 2013 20:17:45 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1949572-us-institute-quiet-nkorea-test-sites.html 2013-03-12T20:17:45Z http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1926592-china-targets-15-pct-satellite-launch-market.html BEIJING (AP) — China is looking to increase its share of the global commercial satellite launching business, targeting a 15 percent share by 2020, a leading space program official said Saturday. China hopes to increase its market share by establishing strategic alliances with major launch services providers and satellite manufacturers, along with developi... Sat, 02 Mar 2013 10:32:45 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1926592-china-targets-15-pct-satellite-launch-market.html 2013-03-02T10:32:45Z http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1921794-spacex-verge-3rd-supply-to-space-station.html CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The International Space Station is about to get another commercial shipment. The California company known as SpaceX is set to launch its unmanned Falcon rocket on Friday morning, hoisting a Dragon capsule containing more than a ton of food, tools, computer hardware and science experiments. There won't be any... Thu, 28 Feb 2013 22:37:42 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1921794-spacex-verge-3rd-supply-to-space-station.html 2013-02-28T22:37:42Z http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1904344-report-failure-glory-climate-satellite-unknown.html VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. (AP) — A group of experts investigating the launch failure of a NASA climate satellite has failed to come up with a reason. The Glory satellite plummeted into the Pacific in 2011 shortly after lifting off from the Vandenberg Air Force Base along the California coast. The panel's report released Wednesday found the rocket'... Wed, 20 Feb 2013 22:19:56 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1904344-report-failure-glory-climate-satellite-unknown.html 2013-02-20T22:19:56Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1892342-report-north-korea-upgrading-rocket-launch-site.html WASHINGTON (AP) — North Korea is upgrading one of its two major missile launch sites, apparently to handle much bigger rockets, and some design features suggest it is getting help from Iran, a U.S. research institute said Thursday. A successful satellite launch in December, and a nuclear test on Tuesday, both in defiance of U.N. Security Council resolutio... Thu, 14 Feb 2013 18:34:34 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1892342-report-north-korea-upgrading-rocket-launch-site.html 2013-02-14T18:34:34Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1885388-neighbors-prep-militaries-nkorean-nuke-test.html SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea's neighbors bolstered their military preparations and mobilized scientists Wednesday to determine whether Pyongyang's third nuclear test, conducted in defiance of U.N. warnings, was as successful as the North claimed. The detonation was also the focus of global diplomatic maneuvers, with U.S. Secretary of State John K... Wed, 13 Feb 2013 11:33:48 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1885388-neighbors-prep-militaries-nkorean-nuke-test.html 2013-02-13T11:33:48Z http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1885710-timeline-north-koreas-pursuit-nuclear-weapons.html North Korea conducted its third nuclear test Tuesday, the latest step in a years-long effort to develop nuclear weapons. Experts believe the country remains far from having a nuclear-armed missile that could threaten the United States, which would require an accurate long-range rocket and a nuclear warhead that could be mounted on it. Here is a look at North Korea's progress... Tue, 12 Feb 2013 10:15:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1885710-timeline-north-koreas-pursuit-nuclear-weapons.html 2013-02-12T10:15:00Z http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1882786-latest-earth-satellite-launches-calif-coast.html VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. (AP) — A satellite launched into space Monday will keep closer tabs on Earth's glaciers, crops, forests and shorelines, continuing a tradition that began four decades ago. The Landsat satellite was boosted into orbit by an Atlas V rocket shortly before 11:30 a.m. local time, more than an hour after lifting off from the se... Mon, 11 Feb 2013 21:06:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1882786-latest-earth-satellite-launches-calif-coast.html 2013-02-11T21:06:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1878150-earth-observing-satellite-to-launch-calif.html LOS ANGELES (AP) — Carrying on a four-decade tradition, a new Earth-observing satellite is set to provide another watchful eye over our planet's glaciers, forests, water resources and urban sprawl. If all goes as planned, the Landsat satellite will be launched into orbit Monday aboard a 200-foot-tall Atlas V rocket from the Vandenberg Air Force Base along... Fri, 08 Feb 2013 20:58:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1878150-earth-observing-satellite-to-launch-calif.html 2013-02-08T20:58:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1864890-kerry-warns-punishment-nkorea-nuclear-test.html SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — New U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and his South Korean counterpart have agreed to make sure North Korea is punished if it carries out its threat to conduct a nuclear test. Amid signs that such a test is coming, South Korea's president also speculated that Pyongyang may detonate multiple atomic devices simultaneously. Under a... Tue, 05 Feb 2013 02:50:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1864890-kerry-warns-punishment-nkorea-nuclear-test.html 2013-02-05T02:50:00Z http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1867002-ahmadinejad-wants-to-irans-astronaut.html TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Monday that he's ready to take the risk of being the first Iranian astronaut sent into space as part of Iran's goal of a manned space flight. "I'm ready to be the first Iranian to sacrifice myself for our country's scientists," the official IRNA news agency quoted him as saying in an address to space ... Mon, 04 Feb 2013 12:43:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1867002-ahmadinejad-wants-to-irans-astronaut.html 2013-02-04T12:43:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1863866-iranian-space-official-photo-wrong-monkey.html TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — One of two official packages of photos of Iran's famed simian space traveler depicted the wrong monkey, but a primate really did fly into space and return safely to Earth, a senior Iranian space official confirmed Saturday. The two different monkeys shown in the photos released by Iran's state media caused some international observers ... Sat, 02 Feb 2013 14:05:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1863866-iranian-space-official-photo-wrong-monkey.html 2013-02-02T14:05:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/1863580-north-korea-threatens-us-rocket-launches.html SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea is threatening to retaliate for what it calls U.S. double standards over recent rocket launches by Pyongyang and U.S. ally Seoul. A North Korean Foreign Ministry spokesman did not elaborate on what that might entail in his comments Saturday to the official Korean Central News Agency. But Pyongyang has recently threate... Sat, 02 Feb 2013 07:35:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/1863580-north-korea-threatens-us-rocket-launches.html 2013-02-02T07:35:00Z http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1861808-space-shuttle-doomed-you-tell-crew.html WASHINGTON (AP) — A NASA top official wrestled with what he thought was a hypothetical question: What should you tell the astronauts of a doomed space shuttle Columbia? When the NASA official raised the question in 2003 just days before the accident that claimed seven astronauts' lives, managers thought — wrongly — that Columbia's heat shield was fine. It... Fri, 01 Feb 2013 13:47:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1861808-space-shuttle-doomed-you-tell-crew.html 2013-02-01T13:47:00Z http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1861262-us-satellite-lost-failed-launch-pacific.html MOSCOW (AP) — Sea Launch AG says a U.S. communications satellite was lost after a booster rocket carrying it into space failed shortly after its launch from a floating platform in the Pacific. The company said in a statement Friday the Intelsat 27 satellite was lost 40 seconds after the launch due to the failure of the Zenit-3SL rocket. The Boeing. Co-bui... Fri, 01 Feb 2013 08:47:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1861262-us-satellite-lost-failed-launch-pacific.html 2013-02-01T08:47:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1855516-skorea-satellite-working-normally-sending-data.html SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The first satellite launched from South Korean soil is working normally, officials said Thursday, a day after Seoul achieved its space milestone during a time of high tensions over archrival North Korea's recent threat to test a third nuclear device. A South Korean rocket carrying the satellite blasted off from a launch pad Wedne... Thu, 31 Jan 2013 03:51:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1855516-skorea-satellite-working-normally-sending-data.html 2013-01-31T03:51:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1858050-nasa-launches-communication-satellite.html CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA launched a new communication satellite Wednesday to stay in touch with its space station astronauts and relay more Hubble telescope images. An unmanned Atlas V rocket blasted into the starry night sky carrying the Tracking and Data Relay Satellite. This is the 11th TDRS satellite to be launched by NASA. The space agency us... Thu, 31 Jan 2013 02:07:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1858050-nasa-launches-communication-satellite.html 2013-01-31T02:07:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1850680-iran-monkey-space.html TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — A gray-tufted monkey strapped in a pod resembling an infant's car seat rode an Iranian rocket into space and returned safely, officials said Monday in what was described as a step toward Tehran's goal of a manned space flight. The mission also touched on concerns that advances in Iran's rocket expertise could be channeled into military... Mon, 28 Jan 2013 19:58:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1850680-iran-monkey-space.html 2013-01-28T19:58:00Z http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1848668-north-korean-leader-vows-strong-action.html SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un convened top security and foreign affairs officials and ordered them to take "substantial and high-profile important state measures," state media said Sunday, fueling speculation that he plans to push forward with a threat to explode a nuclear device in defiance of the United Nations. The meeting o... Sun, 27 Jan 2013 09:25:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1848668-north-korean-leader-vows-strong-action.html 2013-01-27T09:25:00Z http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1848758-japan-launches-2-intelligence-satellites.html TOKYO (AP) — Japan launched two intelligence satellites into orbit on Sunday amid growing concerns that North Korea is planning to test more rockets of its own and possibly conduct a nuclear test. Officials say the launch Sunday of the domestically produced HII-A rocket went smoothly and the satellites — an operational radar satellite and an experimental ... Sun, 27 Jan 2013 06:05:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1848758-japan-launches-2-intelligence-satellites.html 2013-01-27T06:05:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1845312-whats-threat-north-korean-rhetoric-reality.html TOKYO (AP) — According to its official statements, North Korea is ready to go to the brink. But how serious are Pyongyang's threats? This week, new U.N. sanctions punishing the North's successful December rocket launch have elicited a furious response from Pyongyang: strong hints that a third nuclear test is coming, along with bigger and better long-range... Fri, 25 Jan 2013 17:50:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1845312-whats-threat-north-korean-rhetoric-reality.html 2013-01-25T17:50:00Z http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1846240-russia-kazakhstan-spar-space-launch-pad.html MOSCOW (AP) — Russia stepped up efforts Friday to resolve a dispute with neighbor Kazakhstan over its demand to reduce the number of commercial satellite launches from the Russian-leased Baikonur cosmodrome. Kazakhstan, which in the past suspended Russian rocket launches after previous failures spilled toxic rocket fuel, has demanded that Russia cuts the ... Fri, 25 Jan 2013 17:04:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1846240-russia-kazakhstan-spar-space-launch-pad.html 2013-01-25T17:04:00Z