The joint NASA/Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales TOPEX/Poseidon oceanography satellite ceased operations after nearly 62,000 orbits of…
Month: February 2006
JAXA Astronauts Mission Specialists
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) would like to announce that three JAXA astronauts were certified as…
SMART-1 new imaging technique in lunar orbit
ESA’s SMART-1 spacecraft has been surveying the Moon’s surface in visible and near-infrared light using a…
Killer Electrons
ESA’s Cluster mission has revealed a new creation mechanism of ‘killer electrons’ – highly energetic electrons…
NEW RINGS AND MOONS AROUND URANUS
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope photographed a new pair of rings around Uranus and two new, small…
NASA’S Top Space stories of 2005
NASA completed a successful year of milestones and discoveries in 2005 as the agency begins to…
Students talk with ISS
International Space Station Expedition 12 Commander Bill McArthur, KC5ACR, spoke recently via ham radio with cadets…
Evidence found for Beagle 2 location
The news that Beagle 2 may have been spotted on the surface of Mars in the…
Mission to Mars via Antarctica
A few weeks before leaving for the Antarctic Concordia Station, the Italian-French crew that will spend…
Vegas Zefiro 9 engine
Flames, smoke and a deafening noise accompanied the first firing test of Vega’s Zefiro 9 third-stage…