NASA's upcoming mission to study the sun in unprecedented detail and its effects on Earth, the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), arrived at NASA's Kennedy Space Centre, Florida. on July 9. ... The spacecraft left NASA's Goddard Space Flight Centre in...
NASA’s Mercury-bound MESSENGER spacecraft – less than three months from an Earth flyby that will slingshot it toward the inner solar system – successfully tested its main camera by snapping distant approach shots of Earth and the Moon.
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A three-stage Soyuz U rocket with the classified Kosmos 2455 satellite successfully launched from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome at 10:44 GMT, 20th November, 2009. ... The satellite is suspected to be an electronic information gathering satellite. ... The s...
Northrop Grumman-Built TDRS-1 Satellite Reaches 25 Years of Operational Success ... The first of six Tracking and Data Relay Satellite (TDRS) system spacecraft built by Northrop Grumman Corporation completed 25 years of successful on-orbit op...
The HAYABUSA (MUSES-C) mission to the will investigate an S-type Asteroid (25143) Itokawa, an asteroid known as an earth-approaching type.
The Japanese spacecraft HAYABUSA will encounter Itokawa (1998SF36) on Oct...
The International Space Station seems set to become a purely Russian venture.
Despite declarations to the contrary, it seems that the United States is likely to pull out in the near future.
Europe may retain its interest, however, as the European...
April was a memorable month for the New Horizons spacecraft team, for it saw the completion of spacecraft assembly and the accomplishment of a thorough Comprehensive Performance Test (CPT) that put the spacecraft and its seven instruments through rig...
The most recent spacecraft telemetry was acquired Wednesday from the Madrid
and Madrid tracking stations.
The Cassini spacecraft is in an excellent state of health and is operating normally....
The Universities Space Research Association (USRA) has announced that its teammate L-3 Communications Integrated Systems has completed all major physical modifications required for initial flight-testing of NASA’s Stratospheric Observatory For Infra...
Following confirmation from Eurockot Launch Services that they will launch ESA's SMOS mission on 9 September this year, the satellite has just been taken out of storage - providing an opportunity for the media to view the satellite before it is prepa...
Since 2005, the Ad Astra Rocket Company of Webster, Texas, has been working to perfect a type of engine it calls VASIMR (Variable Specific Impulse Magnetoplasma Rocket). ... It uses radio waves to heat argon gas, turning it into a hot plasma a state...
The U.S. Space & Rocket Centre has landed a prize catch at a west Alabama fish farm. ... Museum officials found a long-lost Airstream trailer that was used to quarantine Apollo 12 astronauts returning from the moon in November 1969. . ... ... R...
La République démocratique du Congo a lancé sa 3ème fusée, Troposhpère V. Le but de la mission, atteindre une altitude de 36 km et une vitesse 3 fois supérieur à celle du son. Avec comme innovation cette fois-ci la présence d'un rat. ... Read more (<...
WISE is a NASA-funded scientific research project that will provide a vast storehouse of knowledge about the solar system, the Milky Way, and the Universe. Among the objects WISE will study are asteroids, the coolest and dimmest stars, and the most l...
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