Russia works to fix satellite's off-target orbit Russian scientists were working to correct the orbit of a communications satellite Sunday after it failed to reach its designated location in space -- the latest setback for the country's once-pioneering space industry.
10 December 2012
S. Korea postpones rocket launch to 2013: official South Korea has postponed its third bid to put a satellite in orbit until next year, after a technical problem forced the cancellation of last week's scheduled launch.
03 December 2012
S. Korea readies new bid to join global space club South Korea held a final dress rehearsal Wednesday for its third attempt to send a satellite into orbit and join an elite space club that includes Asian powers China, Japan and India.
S. Korea readies for delayed rocket launch Korea is set to go ahead next week with a delayed rocket launch as it aims to join the elite club of nations capable of putting a satellite into orbit.
20 November 2012
Musicians blast bill to trim Pandora royalties A group of 125 leading musicians is calling on the US Congress to kill a bill backed by online broadcaster Pandora that would slash royalties on Internet radio.
18 November 2012
N.Korea carries out tests for missiles: think tank North Korea has conducted motor tests to improve its long-range missiles after a failed launch in April, a US think tank said Monday after reviewing new satellite images.
Japan mini-satellite to flash code from space A palm-sized Japanese satellite in orbit around Earth will flash a Morse code message that will be visible around the world from next month.
05 October 2012
Egypt all-veiled TV aims to cover women's needs A satellite channel run and hosted by fully-veiled presenters aims to break down the barriers for women in niqab who until the revolution were shunned by Egypt's lucrative television industry.
27 July 2012
US, France mark 50th anniversary of first TV satellite Fifty years ago Thursday a beach ball-sized satellite carried the first television images across the Atlantic, kicking off a new era of global communications decades before the Internet.
KazSat-2 to be operable starting from late 2011According to Vice Chairman of the National Space Agency KazKosmos, following the flight testing, the onboard transmitting equipment will be tested in collaboration with on-land communications carriers.