The Cassini-Huygens Saturn Orbit Insertion events can be viewed at http://saturn.esa.int Significant event times: 03:35 –…
Month: June 2004
CASSINI OPENS A COSMIC TIME CAPSULE
Like a woolly mammoth trapped in Arctic ice, Saturn’s small moon Phoebe may be a frozen…
Anik F2 on schedule
Arianespace Flight 163: Anik F2 is on schedule with transfer to fueling zone Following the checkout…
ISS FIELD DAY 2004 OPERATION POSSIBLE
The crew of the International Space Station–astronaut Mike Fincke, KE5AIT, and cosmonaut Gennady Padalka, RN3DT–could be…
SHUTTLE PROCESSING STATUS REPORT: S04-16
The Space Shuttle fleet is housed and processed at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC), Fla. The…
Rosetta’s self-portrait
ESA’s Rosetta comet-chaser has photographed itself in space at a distance of 35 million kilometres from…
SURPRISING ANATOMY OF A COMET
Findings from a historic encounter between NASA’s Stardust spacecraft and a comet revealed much stranger findings…
REMOTE HEALTH MONITORS
A lightweight, portable device developed by NASA scientists is enabling physicians to monitor the health and…
SMART-1 views Europe
The first picture of Earth taken by the SMART-1 spacecraft on 21 May 2004 from a…
HURRICANES MAY HELP PLANKTON BLOOM
Whenever a hurricane races across the Atlantic Ocean, chances are phytoplankton will bloom behind it. According…