Five spacecraft from two ESA missions unexpectedly found themselves engulfed by waves of electrical and magnetic…
Month: May 2006
Cassini Mission Update
Scientists with NASA’s Cassini mission have found evidence that a new class of small moonlets resides…
Aviation Patterns
A new forecast issued by EUROCONTROL highlights the need for policy-makers to plan for substantial increases…
Libya Montes valley on Mars
These images, taken by the High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) on board ESA’s Mars Express spacecraft,…
Dual-Payload Ariane 5 Mission
The next flight of Arianespace’s heavy-lift Ariane 5 ECA launcher has been set for May 26,…
The Dawn mission
NASA senior management announced a decision to reinstate the Dawn mission, a robotic exploration of two…
Ocean Surface Velocities
For more than a decade space-based radar instruments have been routinely observing ocean surface phenomena including…
General Relativity
Scientists funded by the European Space Agency have measured the gravitational equivalent of a magnetic field…
Mars Orbiter Test Images
The first test images of Mars from NASA’s newest spacecraft provide a tantalizing preview of what…
Cannibal Stars
ESA’s XMM-Newton has seen vast clouds of superheated gas, whirling around miniature stars and escaping from…