Astronomers using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory discovered a mysterious cloud of high-energy electrons enveloping a young…
New Pointing Procedures for RADARSAT-1
Saint-Hubert, December 18, 2002 – The Canadian Space Agency (CSA) temporarily discontinued RADARSAT-1 imaging operations on…
CREEPY CRAWLERS MAY UNRAVEL WEB OF PLANETARY MYSTERIES
Researchers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), Pasadena, Calif., created a micro robot reminiscent of the…
Integral’s first look at the gamma-ray Universe
ESA’s gamma-ray satellite, Integral, is fully operational. Integral’s first ground-breaking images of the high-energy Universe were…
Successful Ariane launch
Just after midnight on Dec 17-18 an Ariane 4 soared into the sky above Kourou in…
ICESat/CHIPSat LAUNCH RESCHEDULED
The launch of NASA’s ICESat and CHIPSat spacecraft, aboard a Boeing Delta II expendable launch vehicle,…
Canadian Research on Bone Loss in Space
Experience and science experiments have shown that while in microgravity, astronauts can loose up to 2%…
MSG-1 delivers key information about the Earths climate
The GERB instrument onboard the MSG-1 (Meteosat Second Generation) satellite took its first measurements, Thursday 12…
ESA’s Rosetta Mission
Rosetta’s 10 year expedition will begin on 13 January 2003, with an Ariane-5 launch from Kourou…
Safer harbour operations with EGNOS
It will soon be much safer for ships to enter and move around narrow harbours with…