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• North Korea fires long-range rocket in defiant move

  December 11, 2012 8:25 PM

  SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - South Korea says North Korea has fired a long-range rocket in a defiant move just days ahead of South Korea's presidential election. It was the second rocket launch under leader Kim Jong Un. Kim took power following his father Kim Jong Il's death one year... more »

• Largest rocket in Colorado history launches and flies high

  July 28, 2012 8:17 PM

  It's the biggest of it's kind to launch in Colorado, and it went up with applause from thousands Saturday. We got to watch the take off at a rocket event hosted by the Southern Colorado Rocketeers. Thousands watch as rockets launch one after another. While some are small, others... more »

• US: NKorea's rocket launch plan highly provocative

  March 16, 2012 5:45 AM

  SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - The U.S. State Department says North Korea's planned rocket launch is "highly provocative" and would directly violate the North's international obligations. North Korea in a surprise announcement Friday said it plans to launch a satellite into space on the back of a long-range rocket in... more »

• NASA has new plans for a rocket

  September 14, 2011 6:27 AM

  WASHINGTON (AP) - NASA is unveiling its design for a gigantic new rocket, bigger than the one that sent astronauts to the moon. And it will go even farther away. NASA on Wednesday will detail its much-delayed plans for the rocket, called the Space Launch System, which will cost... more »

• Cadet-built satellite now in orbit

  November 24, 2010 3:12 PM

  A converted Minotaur-IV inter-continental ballistic missile built by Air Force Academy cadets carried FalconSAT-5 into orbit from the Kodiak Launch Complex in Alaska on November 19. Col. Marty France, permanent professor and head of the Academy Department of Astronautics, accepted satellite control authority from the Space Test Program's Col.... more »

• Amateur rocketeers to launch 50 pound rocket

  November 15, 2010 3:19 PM

  The Southern Colorado Rocketeers and the Valkyrie Civil Air Patrol Squadron plan to launch a 50 pound rocket on Saturday southwest of Pueblo. They hope the rocket will reach 7,000 feet above the ground. It has a total of 7 rocket motors that will fire in sequence. And it... more »

• Peterson AFB to track updated GPS satellites

  May 17, 2010 3:54 PM

  The Air Force is launching the first of a new generation of Global Positioning System satellites expected to last longer and perform better. The satellite is scheduled to lift off Thursday at about 11:30 p.m. EDT from Cape Canaveral. GPS uses 24 satellites beaming signals to Earth that... more »

• U.S. space supremacy now in question

  April 17, 2010 11:05 PM

  In the midst of President Obama's announcement Thursday that NASA's human space flight budget will be reduced. Many in the space industry fear the US is losing its grip on space superiority. "What we are seeing is that we are not holding our place." says Janet Stevens with the Space... more »

• Rocket team heads to nationals

  April 15, 2010 6:01 PM

  The Galileo School of Math and Science in Colorado Springs has been notified that their student rocketry team is one of the nation's top 100 and has qualified to compete in the national, Team America Rocketry Challenge. Galileo's team is the only one in the state of Colorado to qualify.... more »

• Launch of NASA satellite delayed until Wednesday

  February 9, 2010 9:42 AM

  The launch of a NASA satellite that could help predict solar storms that can trigger massive electrical blackouts and communication failures on Earth has been delayed. The Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, was scheduled to lift off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Tuesday, but the launch has... more »

• NASA launches sky-mapping telescope

  December 14, 2009 10:54 AM

  A NASA spacecraft blasted into space early Monday on a mission to map the whole sky in search of hidden asteroids, comets and other celestial objects. The Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer, or Wise, lifted off aboard a Delta 2 rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base on the central California... more »

• NASA's new rocket lifts off on short test flight

  October 28, 2009 11:40 AM

  NASA's newest rocket has blasted off on a test flight that may pave the way for a return to the moon. After a one-day weather delay, the Ares I-X rocket rumbled away Wednesday morning from a former shuttle launch pad at Florida's Kennedy Space Center. No people or payloads are... more »

• NASA ready to test launch new Ares rocket

  October 26, 2009 7:00 PM

  America's newest rocket is now on the pad and scheduled to lift off in less than 24 hours. Ares 1X is scheduled to liftoff on its first test flight Tuesday morning, but the unmanned, two and a half minute mission may be the only time we ever see it.... more »

• NASA puts new rocket on launch pad for test flight

  October 20, 2009 12:17 PM

  NASA's new rocket is on the launching pad. The experimental Ares rocket traveled from the hangar to the pad Tuesday morning. It was moving at less than one mile per hour, and took almost seven hours to travel 4.2 miles to the pad. It's the first time in... more »

• Moonstruck: NASA probes hit moon looking for water, pictures coming

  October 9, 2009 9:39 AM

  NASA crashed two probes into moon's south pole this morning in a search for hidden ice. But the live pictures of the impact and the six-mile-long plume of lunar dust that had been expected didn't come. The images showed the moon getting close, but cut out before any plume could... more »

• NASA launches rocket, dozens report strange lights

  September 20, 2009 7:23 AM

  NASA says it successfully launched a rocket in Virginia as part of an experiment, and the blast may have caused dozens of people to report seeing strange lights in the sky. The space agency said it launched the Black Brant XII on Saturday evening to gather data on the highest... more »

• Fiery test of moon rocket hailed as success

  September 11, 2009 9:53 AM

  A million pounds of propellant was ignited in the Utah desert Thursday, as NASA tested a new moon rocket. A massive cloud of smoke and dust rose as the rocket blasted flames for more than two minutes. The rocket itself was fastened horizontally to the ground on a... more »