This two-image mosaic creates a stunning scene of the Imhotep region on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko as seen from a distance of 19.9 km from the comet centre on 28 March 2015. […]
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Airbus Defence and Space has chosen Arianespace to launch PeruSat-1, the Peruvian Earth observation satellite on a European Vega launcher from Kourou spaceport. The launch of PeruSat-1 is scheduled for […]
Houston-area Conference to Feature Planetary Science Results
NASA researchers and other scientists will present early science results from the agency’s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) mission, ESA’s (European Space Agency’s) Rosetta mission, and an exploration of […]
CubeSats offered deep-space ride on ESA asteroid probe
Think of it as the ultimate hitchhiking opportunity: ESA is offering CubeSats a ride to a pair of asteroids in deep space. CubeSats are among the smallest types of satellites: […]
Op-ed | 10 Reasons Why an Asteroid Redirect Mission Is Worth Doing
Altius Space Machines President and CEO Jonathan Goff offers 10 reasons why NASA’s nearly universally disliked Asteroid Redirect Mission, or one like it, might be worthwhile.
Space Foundation Honors Dordain with Lifetime Achievement Award
The Space Foundation is giving outgoing European Space Agency Director-general Jean-Jacques Dordain the 2015 Gen. James E. Hill Lifetime Space Achievement Award.
The future of space activities, focus of COPUOS Subcommittee
“The importance attached by the international community to cooperation in the area of peaceful uses of outer space is increasing” said Ms. Simonetta Di Pippo, Director of the United Nations […]
Searching for Philae
Where is Philae? When will Philae wake up? These are the two most popular questions currently being asked of the mission especially on our social media channels. We will try […]
A first peek beneath the surface of a comet
AMHERST, Mass. – In some of the first research findings to be published from the European Space Agency’s Rosetta Mission to the comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, scientists including astronomer Peter Schloerb of […]
French Space Agency To Focus on Climate Science in 2015
After European ministers finalized plans for future launch vehicles in 2014, CNES plans to focus in 2015 on climate science in advance of a major climate change conference in Paris late in the year.