NANOSATELLITE SYSTEM

Big things can come in small packages, and engineers at NASA’s Johnson Space Center are making…

MARSIS antenna boom

The second 20-metre antenna boom of the MARSIS instrument on board Mars Express was successfully ­…

MICROGRAVITY FLIGHTS FROM ZERO-G

NASA researchers will conduct experiments later this year on two near-weightless flights operated by the Zero…

Panama Canal from Space

Appearing in this Envisat radar image like shining jewels, ships pass from the man-made Lake Gatun…

Ready for dinner on Mars?

‘Martian bread and green tomato jam’, ‘Spirulina gnocchis’ and ‘Potato and tomato mille-feuilles’ are three delicious…

Space Measurements of Carbon

Follow the carbon ­ this is the mantra of researchers seeking to understand climate change and…

SHUTTLE CARGO READY

The cargo for the Space Shuttle Discovery’s historic Return to Flight mission (STS-114) arrived yesterday at…

BLAST, a balloon-borne telescope

LONGUEUIL, June 13, 2005 – Canada and three partner countries, the U.S., the U.K. and Mexico,…

TESTIMONY FROM SPACE

NASA’s astronaut aboard the International Space Station (ISS) made history today becoming the first to testify…

Titan’s volcano may release methane

A team of European and US scientists, using Cassini-Huygens data, have found that Saturn’s smoggy moon…