A unique view of our home planet and its natural satellite the Moon – is…
Year: 2003
Europe’s Moon spacecraft arrives in French Guiana
Preparations for Arianespace’s next Ariane 5 mission began July 15 when the spacecraft for Europe’s first…
INTERNATIONAL EARTH OBSERVATION SUMMIT
On Thursday, July 31, 2003, senior administration officials and representatives from approximately 25 nations will convene…
Deep Insights into the distant Universe
Using XMM-Newton, astronomers have obtained the world’s deepest ‘wide screen’ X-ray image of the cosmos to…
UNIQUE VIEW OF HURRICANE CLAUDETTE
International Space Station crewmembers are seeing Hurricane Claudette from a unique vantage point, 240 miles above…
Galileo taking shape
“Galileo is taking shape with every passing day. These first contracts are symbolic of Europe’s collective…
HUBBLE HELPS CONFIRM OLDEST KNOWN PLANET
Long before our Sun and Earth ever existed, a Jupiter-sized planet formed around a sun-like star.…
ISS CREW TO TALK WITH EDUCATORS
Educators will talk with orbiting International Space Station astronauts during a special conference call at NASA’s…
Astronauts still drinking Tang–or something like it
Despite some technical problems, youngsters at the Challenger Learning Center of Northwest Indiana http://pucinfo.calumet.purdue.edu/challenger_nwi/welcome.htm got answers…
MERIS ready for work
The MERIS sensor on ESA’s Envisat environmental satellite is ready for operational use by science and…