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Navy Sensor Provides Critical Space Weather Observations
Launched from Vandenberg Air
Force Base, Calif., aboard
an United Launch Alliance
Atlas V launch vehicle, Oct.
18, 2009, the Special Sensor
Ultraviolet Limb Imager (SSU ... > full story
NASA's Ares I-X Rocket Completes Successful Flight Test
NASA's Ares I-X test rocket
lifted off Wednesday from
NASA's Kennedy Space Center
in Florida for a two-minute
powered flight. The test
flight lasted about six
... > full story
Robot Armada Might Scale New Worlds
An armada of robots may one
day fly above the mountain
tops of Saturn's moon Titan,
cross its vast dunes and
sail in its liquid lakes. ... > full story
Long Night Falls Over Saturn's Rings
As Saturn's rings orbit the
planet, a section is
typically in the planet's
shadow, experiencing a brief
night lasting from 6 to 14
hours. However, once
approximately every 15
... > full story
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Exploring The Final Frontier: Disease Proposed As Major Barrier To Mars And Beyond
October 30, 2009 — Scientists argue that human missions to Mars, as well as all other long-term space flights might be compromised by microbial hitchhikers, such as bacteria. That's because long-term space travel packs ... > full story -
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 -
Key Process For Space Outpost Proved On 'Vomit Comet' Ride
October 29, 2009 — During flights simulating the moon's low gravity, researchers find that sifters can separate soil particles and produce the best feedstock for an oxygen generator. Scientists are designing and ... > 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 -
Astronomers Find Organic Molecules Around Gas Planet
October 21, 2009 — Peering far beyond our solar system, NASA researchers have detected the basic chemistry for life in a second hot gas planet, advancing astronomers toward the goal of being able to characterize ... > 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 -
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 View Of The Heliosphere: Cassini Helps Redraw Shape Of Solar System
October 18, 2009 — The solar system, as defined by the heliosphere, the region of the sun's influence, may have a quite different shape than scientists had ... > full story -
Galactic Magnetic Fields May Control Boundaries Of Our Solar System
October 17, 2009 — Galactic magnetic fields had a far greater impact on Earth's history than previously conceived, and the future of our planet and others may depend, in part, on how the galactic magnetic fields change ... > 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
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