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Final Look At ESA's SMOS And Proba-2 Satellites
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
... > full story
Last Visit Home For ESA's Comet Chaser Rosetta
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
... > full story
How The Moon Produces Its Own Water
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,
... > full story
New Concept May Enhance Earth-Mars Communication
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
... > 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 -
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 -
Chinks In ISS Armour Deliver Data On Space Junk Impacts
September 17, 2009 — Speeding along in orbit at more than seven kilometres per second, the International Space Station has its surfaces carefully shielded against potentially catastrophic collisions with micrometeoroids ... > full story -
Planck Sees Light Billions Of Years Old
August 16, 2009 — The Planck space telescope has begun to collect light left over from the Big Bang explosion that created our ... > full story -
Mars, Methane And Mysteries: Red Planet May Not Be As Dormant As Once Thought
August 13, 2009 — Mars may not be as dormant as scientists once thought. The 2004 discovery of methane means that either there is life on Mars, or that volcanic activity continues to generate heat below the martian ... > full story -
Naval Research Laboratory's ANDE-2 Deployed From Space Shuttle Endeavour
August 5, 2009 — The Naval Research Laboratory's satellite suite, the Atmospheric Neutral Density Experiment 2 (ANDE-2), was deployed from NASA's Space Shuttle Endeavour on July 30, ... > full story -
US Space Program Should Align With Broader National Goals, Experts Urge
July 7, 2009 — The US civil space program should be aligned with widely acknowledged national challenges, says a new report from the National Research ... > full story
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