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Rosetta Bound for Outer Solar System After Final Earth Swingby
This morning, mission
controllers confirmed that
ESA's comet chaser Rosetta
had swung by Earth at 8:45
CET as planned, skimming
... > full story
ESA Spacecraft May Help Unravel Cosmic Mystery
When Europe's comet chaser
Rosetta swings by Earth on
Nov. 13 for a critical
gravity assist, tracking
data will be collected to
precisely measure the
... > full story
Seeing Stars, Proba-2 Platform Passes Its First Health Check
Into its second week in
orbit, Proba-2's spacecraft
platform has proven to be in
excellent health. This
leaves the way clear for
commissioning the many new
... > full story
Climate Studies To Benefit From 12 Years Of Satellite Aerosol Data
Aerosols, very small
particles suspended in the
air, play an important role
in the global climate
balance and in regulating
... > full story
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Soil Moisture And Ocean Salinity Satellite Ready For Launch
October 29, 2009 — A new European Earth observation satellite will be launched in the early hours of Monday November 2 from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northern Russia. The European Space Agency Soil Moisture and Ocean ... > full story -
Final Look At ESA's SMOS And Proba-2 Satellites
October 21, 2009 — As preparations for the launch of SMOS and Proba-2 continue on schedule, the engineers and technicians at the Russian launch site say goodbye as both satellites are encapsulated within the ... > full story -
Last Visit Home For ESA's Comet Chaser Rosetta
October 20, 2009 — ESA's Rosetta comet chaser will swing by Earth on Nov. 13 to pick up orbital energy and begin the final leg of its 10-year journey to the outer Solar System. Several observations of the Earth-moon ... > full story -
Volunteers Wanted For Simulated 520-Day Mars Mission
October 20, 2009 — Starting in 2010, an international crew of six will simulate a 520-day round-trip to Mars, including a 30-day stay on the martian surface. In reality, they will live and work in a sealed facility in ... > full story -
How The Moon Produces Its Own Water
October 19, 2009 — The Moon is a big sponge that absorbs electrically charged particles given out by the Sun. These particles interact with the oxygen present in some dust grains on the lunar surface, producing water. ... > full story -
New Concept May Enhance Earth-Mars Communication
October 16, 2009 — Direct communication between Earth and Mars can be strongly disturbed and even blocked by the Sun for weeks at a time, cutting off any future human mission to the Red Planet. An European Space Agency ... > full story -
Bizarre Galaxy Is Result Of Pair Of Spiral Galaxies Smashing Together
October 14, 2009 — A recent NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image captures what appears to be one very bright and bizarre galaxy, but is actually the result of a pair of spiral galaxies that resemble our own Milky Way ... > full story -
SMART-1 Images Crash Scene Of Upcoming LCROSS Impact
September 27, 2009 — The European Space Agency's SMART-1 team has released an image of the future impact site of NASA's Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS). LCROSS will search for water ice on the ... > full story -
Learning How Materials Work In Space To Make Them Better On Earth
September 22, 2009 — What's about the size of a large refrigerator, weighs a ton and may help pave the way for new and improved metals or glasses here on Earth? It's the Materials Science Research Rack -- a new ... > full story -
Planck Snaps Its First Images Of Ancient Cosmic Light
September 20, 2009 — Planck, the European Space Agency's mission to study the early Universe, started surveying the sky regularly from its vantage point at L2 on August 13. The instruments of ESA's "time machine" were ... > full story
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