University faculty and students interested in learning how to build scientific experiments for spaceflight are invited…
Month: February 2013
Dragon Prepares to Resupply Station
The Space Exploration Technologies, or SpaceX, Dragon spacecraft stands inside a processing hangar at Cape Canaveral…
SMOS results
Over the past three years, ESA’s Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) satellite has mapped Earth’s…
A glowing jet from a young star
This image shows an object known as HH 151, a bright jet of glowing material trailed…
Steins revisited
Asteroid Steins was first imaged by ESA’s Rosetta spacecraft using the OSIRIS camera on 5 September…
European launchers: powering Europe into space
Europe can now launch any satellite on any orbit thanks to its complete portfolio: Ariane, Soyuz…
Don’t worry earthlings: fly-by asteroid won’t be a disasteroid
MONTREAL - An asteroid about half the size of a football field will make a very…