As a proud Saudi Arabian prince looked on, shuttle astronauts Tuesday launched a satellite that will relay communications in the Middle East for at least the next seven years. The Arabsat satellite ...

Discovery`s astronauts launched the Syncom 4 satellite Thursday and quickened their pursuit of the disabled Syncom 3 communications station that two spacewalkers will try to catch and fix this weekend ...

Space shuttle Discovery safely brought back a satellite loaded with data about Earth’s ozone layer on Tuesday, and scientists couldn’t wait to get at it. But they’ll have to wait a month. It will take ...

After flawlessly springing a satellite from Discovery’s cargo bay, shuttle astronauts Thursday began scrambling to catch up with an ailing communications relay station that they hope to begin ...