CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. A Russian Soyuz rocket blasted off on Friday to deliver a cargo ship loaded with food, water and equipment to the International Space Station, breaking a string of launch failures, a NASA TV broadcast showed. The Progress capsule, carrying... More »
ALMATY Three astronauts landed safely in the steppes of Kazakhstan on Thursday, ending their 199-day mission after an unexpected “bonus month” aboard the International Space Station, NASA Television showed. “It was a textbook homecoming for the Expedition 43 c... More »
ALMATY A Proton-M carrier rocket carrying a Mexican satellite malfunctioned and burnt up over Siberia minutes after launch on Saturday, the latest in a series of mishaps for Russia’s space industry. The third stage of the rocket carrying the MexSat-1 communica... More »
LONDON (Reuters) – Royal Dutch Shell (RDSa.L) agreed to buy smaller rival BG Group (BG.L) for 47 billion pounds ($70 billion) in the first major energy industry merger in more than a decade, closing the gap on market leader U.S. Exxon Mobil (XOM.N) after a plu... More »
LONDON (Reuters) – Sometimes it takes little more than five people to put together a $70 billion oil mega-merger. Shell’s purchase of smaller rival BG, the third largest oil and gas merger ever, was prompted by a phone call on a Sunday in the middle of March b... More »
