Barely a month after its expensive test lander crashed into Mars, the European Space Agency asked member nations Friday to cough up an extra 400 million euros ($425 million) to complete the ExoMars exploration of the Red Planet.
The two-part mission saw a spacecraft successfully placed into orbit in mid-October, but a companion lander designed to pave the way forRead more
The Russian Proton-M rocket carrying the US Intelsat DLA-2 satellite was successfully launched from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan. "We confirm that the separation of the spacecraft from the upper stage has taken place. The launch program has been fully implemented," Russian Space Agency (Roscosmos) spokesman said in statement carried by Russian news agency (RIA Novosti).
The launchRead more