FRENCH STUDENTS RENDEZVOUS WITH ASTRONAUT VIA HAM RADIO

Students at the Immaculate Conception Elementary School in Brest, France, spoke January 8 via Amateur Radio…

CHIPS READY TO OPERATE ON “THE BUBBLE”

NASA’s Cosmic Hot Interstellar Plasma Spectrometer (CHIPS) satellite, scheduled for launch on Jan. 11, will study…

New Saudi satellite gets OSCAR designation

A third satellite in the SaudiSat series has earned an OSCAR designation from AMSAT, SO-50. The…

RESEARCHERS SEEK “HEART” OF BLACK HOLE MYSTERY

New research, funded by NASA and the University of Tokyo, has shown astronomers may not yet…

Kodama Moves to Operational Phase

The Data Relay Test Satellite (DRTS) “Kodama”, that the National Space Development Agency of Japan (NASDA)…

NASA TV FEATURES SPACE STATION BRIEFING & SPACEWALK

The activities of the residents aboard the International Space Station and a preview of their next…

BIGGEST ZOOM LENS IN SPACE EXTENDS HUBBLE’S REACH

The Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS), aboard NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, has used a natural “zoom…

Arianespace Flight 157: Inquiry Board Submits its Findings

Paris, January 7, 2003 – The Inquiry Board appointed to investigate the failure of Flight 157…

Rosetta – a comet ride to solve planetary mysteries

In 2011, ESA’s Rosetta will be the first mission to orbit and land on a comet.…

NASA TECHNOLOGY USED TO IMPROVE HEALTH

NASA developed an innovative technology to help astronauts combat motion sickness during space flight. That technology…