The European spacecraft Venus Express has been successfully placed into a trajectory that will take it…
Year: 2005
Launch of the ATV pushed to 2007
Today, about 98 percent of the hardware for Jules Verne, Europe’s first Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV)…
RADARSAT-1 marks 10 Years in Space
The Canadian Space Agency’s RADARSAT-1 satellite today celebrates its tenth anniversary, having flown 2,354,120,900 km while…
Greenland Ice Sheet Growth
Researchers have utilised more than a decade’s worth of data from radar altimeters on ESA’s ERS…
ASTRONAUT WALTER SCHIRRA HONORED
NASA honored veteran astronaut Walter M. Schirra, Jr., as an Ambassador of Exploration today during a…
Calcutta from Space
This colourful view of West Bengal in India, centred on the megacity of Kolkata (Calcutta), is…
Canadian National Mobile Space Station
What is more interesting for students than learning through hands-on experience about scientific concepts related to…
Five years of ISS crews
Just over five years ago the Soyuz TM-31 spacecraft was launched into orbit. There had been…
5 years continous Presence in Space
Break out the thermostabalized beef tips with mushrooms and rehydratable apple cider! NASA and the international…
SATELLITE DETECTS MASSIVE STAR PARTNER
Scientists using NASA’s Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer satellite made the first direct detection of a companion…