The countdown to Rosetta’s rendezvous in space began on 1 March 1997. At the end of February 2004, seven years and not a few headaches later, the European Space Agency […]
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Stardust Surprise
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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New tool for weather forecasters
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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
