When NASA’s Stardust spacecraft flew by Comet Wild 2, the probe saw something that surprised astronomers. January 16, 2004: On Jan. 2nd, 2004, NASA’s Stardust spacecraft approached Comet Wild 2 […]
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A new processing system now operational in ESA ground stations will help weather forecasters to benefit once more from unique all-weather data from the ERS-2 scatterometer. Although the highly successful […]
Students Travel from Japan to Pay Tribute to Columbia Crew
A group of outstanding high school students from Japan who had their experiments fly on Space Shuttle mission STS-107 will be at Kennedy Space Center (KSC) on Aug. 20. They […]
Space Water Recycling Experiment Flying High Aboard Space Shuttle
In a remote, hostile, totally alien environment, every life-sustaining resource is precious. In space, other than air, none is more precious than water. Improving the careful use of that critical […]
Rosetta arrives in South America
The final leg of Rosetta’s four-year race to the launch pad has now begun. After a 6500 km trip across the Atlantic Ocean, ESA’s comet chaser arrived safely yesterday evening […]
HyShot program secures place in flight history
University of Queensland researchers today (August 16) claimed success for the world`s first flight test of supersonic combustion, the process used in an air-breathing supersonic ramjet engine, known as a […]
Spacecraft Riding High to Catch Some Rays
NASA’s Genesis spacecraft launched flawlessly atop a Delta 7326 rocket from Florida’s Cape Canaveral Air Station at 12:13:40 p.m. EDT (9:13:40 a.m. PDT) today. Genesis will become the first mission […]
Genesis Set to Catch a Piece of the Sun
NASA’S next robotic space explorer is ready to do a little sunbathing on a mission to catch a wisp of raw material from the luminous celestial body around which the […]
The Maxus-4 package: what goes on in microgravity
>The Maxus-4 rocket launched on 29 April carried seven experiments stacked in five self-contained modules. They were designed to investigate phenomena in fluid physics and materials science that are difficult […]
Rosetta flight structure arrives from Finland
With less than two years remaining before launch, engineers at Alenia Spazio in Turin were eagerly awaiting yesterday’s delivery of the Rosetta Orbiter flight structure. Now that the box-shaped, metal […]