Earth watcher Proba-V is in good health following its launch last week. The Vegetation imager has been switched on and the first image has been captured over western France. The miniature satellite is designed to map land cover and vegetation growth across the entire planet every two days. The data can be used for alerting authorities to crop failures or monitoring the spread of deserts and deforestation. The satellite’s vegetation imager was switched on Wednesday in time to get...

EL SEGUNDO, Calif. -  Boeing [NYSE: BA] has a new satellite customer under a contract to design and deliver one Boeing 702HP high-power spacecraft to ViaSat Inc. [NASDAQ: VSAT] in 2016. The satellite, ViaSat-2, will provide high-speed satellite broadband services to subscribers of the ViaSat Exede® Internet service, as well as address its growing mobile broadband businesses. The companies also will cooperatively offer the system to other satellite providers. Contract value is not being disclosed. "...

LOS ANGELES AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. -  A U.S. Air Force Global Positioning System (GPS) satellite built by Boeing was successfully launched May 15. The fourth GPS IIF satellite, Space Vehicle Number (SVN) 66, was carried aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V Launch Vehicle at 5:38 p.m. EDT from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla. The new capabilities of the IIF satellites will provide greater navigational accuracy through improvements in atomic clock technology; a more robust signal for commercial aviation and safety-of-l...

NASA's first mission to sample an asteroid is moving ahead into development and testing in preparation for its launch in 2016. The Origins-Spectral Interpretation Resource Identification Security Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) passed a confirmation review Wednesday called Key Decision Point (KDP)-C. NASA officials reviewed a series of detailed project assessments and authorized the spacecraft's continuation into the development phase. OSIRIS-REx will rendezvous with the astero...

CARLSBAD, Calif. -  ViaSat (NASDAQ: VSAT) has executed a contract with Boeing (NYSE: BA) to build ViaSat-2, which is based on ViaSat's next generation, Ka-band satellite technology and architecture. ViaSat-2 is expected to be, by far, the world's highest capacity satellite at the time of launch (scheduled for mid-2016) achieving an unparalleled mix of capacity and coverage. ViaSat-2 is anticipated to approximately double the bandwidth economics of ViaSat-1 while simultaneously increasing its coverage foo...

"Queen of Popera" Sarah Brightman will be back in Korea to feature her latest songs at BEXCO in Busan on July 21 and Seoul's Gymnastics Stadium of Olympic Park on July 26.

For his final bow after months commanding the International Space Station, Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield recorded a music video from space.

Space exploration has been populating the solar system with manmade hardware for half a century, and last month marked the 50th anniversary of Sputnik, the planet's first artificial satellite.

Before he comes back to earth, a Canadian astronaut aboard the International Space Station has gone out on his terms: a music video version of David Bowie's "Space Oddity". The astronaut, Canada's own Chris Hadfield, had his version of "Space Oddity" posted on YouTube a day before his official departure from the International Space Station.

The West Australian © David Heaton will fulfil his childhood dream of becoming an astronaut.

An asteroid as long across as the Golden Gate Bridge will be making a relatively near pass by Earth on May 31 - thankfully, staying far away enough not to be worrisome.

A Russian capsule carrying mice, lizards and other small animals returned to Earth on Sunday after spending a month in space for what scientists said was the longest experiment of its kind.

In its latest search for interns, credit card company MasterCard has released an interactive futuristic space-themed video to get interns thinking about the future of money.

Britain's first official astronaut Tim Peake has been selected for a five-month mission to the International Space Station.

NASA said Wednesday the Kepler spacecraft lost the second of four wheels that control the telescope's orientation in space.

The crew of the International Space Station is boldly going where no one has gone before _ to see the new "Star Trek" film.

The JetStar roller coaster had become an unofficial monument to Hurricane Sandy's power before it was pulled from the ocean with a clamshell crane and dropped in pieces onto a barge.

After spending more than $200 million, the Pentagon's advanced research branch has decided to scrap one of its key space projects, System F6, which aimed to distribute functions of a big satellite into several small ones orbiting in a tight formation.

And electric engines could turn out to be a key element in NASA's goal of sending people to Mars, experts say.

Panasonic has a new camera, the AG-HPX255. Let's take a look at their new hand-held P2 camera offering, as well as their new monitor, the BT-LH1850. Panasonic lent a friend of mine the AG-HPX255 to test out.

Yes, X-Prize billionaires are failing their mission: "Making the Impossible Possible." Now they need at least $10 trillion to save the world, and a far grander vision, the new "10X-Prizes." And their leader, Dr.

A nice look at the surface of Rhea, the second largest moon of Saturn. Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute Sorry to see this the last targeted flyby of Rhea.

That was the farthest total distance for any NASA vehicle driving on a world other than Earth until yesterday.

Before forming VALIS , bassist Van Conner was a founding member of Screaming Trees.

Back on Earth, Canadian astronaut and cyberspace tweeter Chris Hadfield is getting a rough re-introduction to gravity after a five-month stint aboard the International Space Station, the former commander told reporters during a video webcast from Houston.