The Progress-M51 spacecraft filled with garbage from the International Space Station has been deorbited and sunk in the Pacific at 4:02 a.m. Moscow time today.
At 3:16 a.m. the cargo craft, which has exhausted its service life, was given the last and only deceleration boost.
The par...
NASA Successfully Demonstrates Innovative Nanosatellite System
Big things can come in small packages, and engineers at NASA's Johnson Space Centre are making progress on a tiny spacecraft that holds major promise for future exploration.
Work on the volleyball-sized Miniature Auton...
With two minor planets being named Senthalir and Sharanya after them, two girls from Coimbatore , Tamil Nadu have certainly reached for the stars!
It has been announced that Senthalir and Sharanya have been recognized for their contribution to science.
'I could not be...
'Martian bread and green tomato jam', 'Spirulina gnocchis' and 'Potato and tomato mille-feuilles' are three delicious recipes that two French companies have created for ESA and future space explorers to Mars and other planets.
The challenge for the chefs was to offer astronauts well-flavo...
Space station astronaut testifies from orbit
U.S. astronaut John Phillips, testifying live on video from the International Space Station, slowly turned heels-over-head, showing hi...
Sun Microsystems announced its plan to release the source code for its Solaris operating system on Tuesday in order to compete more effectively against its core rivals IBM and HP.
The company will post more than 5 million lines of source code at the OpenSolaris Web site, containing kernel...
Microsoft's has made available a new photo editing software, Acrylic.
The new program is based on Expression, which Microsoft purchased in 2003.
Microsoft describes the software--currently available as a 77MB free download--as bringing together pixel-based painting and vector...
Loral Skynet today announced that it has renewed an agreement with International Television, Bangladesh, to distribute its NTV channel, a leading news and entertainment source distributed to cable operators and direct-to-home users in Bangladesh and across Asia.
In addition, Inte...
Tomorrow, just after the sun sets, the Moon and Jupiter will be less than one degree apart.
In certain locations, Jupiter will be occulted by the Moon on June 16th
Three weeks of flight tests over the Mojave desert have demonstrated a breakthrough in how to safely launch future passenger-carrying rockets using a carrier aircraft.
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The Russian federal space agency will display a full-scale Martian station at the Paris Air Show, which opens to the public on June 17, in Le Bourget, France.
"The station is small enough, but like the remote Earth sensing unmanned aircraft from Lavochkin NPO, it will be full-scale,"
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The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) have given Indian names to certain types of rocks on Mars.
"We shall disclose the names soon after NASA gives clearance to make this classified information public" Amitabha Ghosh, NASA planetary geologist ,(currently on a thre...
Nikon has announced an update to its RAW conversion and image management program. As well as adding support for the Nikon D50, Nikon Capture version 4.3 now adds colour aberration control, red eye correction and improves processing for NEF files. The new colour aberration tool automatically redu...
