Both of NASA’s Mars Exploration Rovers have completed their originally planned mission and are tackling extra-credit…
Space tech on Europe’s racetracks again
As the 2004 motor-racing season gets underway, technology from Europe’s satellites and launchers is being put…
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The Bug Nebula, NGC 6302, is one of the brightest and most extreme planetary nebulae known.…
TECHNOLOGY HELPS WEATHER FORECASTERS
NASA is providing new technology and satellite data to help forecasters at the National Oceanic and…
ESA and China’s joint Earth watch begins
More than a hundred leading European and Chinese scientists meet today on the island city of…
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In parallel with the DELTA Mission, two Russian cosmonauts on the International Space Station (ISS) –…
ISS STATUS REPORT: SS04-06
The five-crew members aboard the International Space Station are busy with handover briefings and scientific experiments…
SHUTTLE PROCESSING STATUS REPORT: S04-08
The Space Shuttle fleet is housed and processed at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC), Fla. The…
Seeds in Space experiment
Maria van der Hoeven, Dutch Minister for Education, Culture and Science, officially started the Seeds in…
ARCTIC SEA ICE STUDY
Contrary to historical observations, sea ice in the high Arctic undergoes very small, back and forth…