Fifteen years after its launch, the grand ESA/NASA Ulysses space mission is still going strong, orbiting…
Month: October 2005
Space Charter for monitoring disasters
Longueuil, Quebec, October 5, 2005 – The Canadian Space Agency is actively taking part in a…
FLASH HELPS SOLVE COSMIC MYSTERY
Scientists have solved the 35-year-old mystery of the origin of powerful, split-second flashes of light known…
Clearer View for Pilots
Working to make flying safer, more than a dozen NASA, airline, industry and government pilots are…
WISE bed-rest study
As of 1 October, the second 2005 campaign of the Women’s International Space Simulation for Exploration…
GRAVITY PROBE B MISSION
Almost 90 years after Albert Einstein first postulated his general theory of relativity, scientists have finished…
Space Station view of giant lightning
Do giant flashes of lightning striking upwards from thunder clouds merely pose an extraordinarily spectacular view?…
MERIS/AATSR sensors with many uses
Two satellite sensors work better than one for the study of Earth’s oceans, atmosphere and land…
Coral Reefs detected from orbit
Australian researchers have found Envisat’s MERIS sensor can detect coral bleaching down to ten metres deep.…
New York from space
An Envisat view of the East Coast of the United States including the city of New…