New Pointing Procedures for RADARSAT-1

Saint-Hubert, December 18, 2002 – The Canadian Space Agency (CSA) temporarily discontinued RADARSAT-1 imaging operations on…

CREEPY CRAWLERS MAY UNRAVEL WEB OF PLANETARY MYSTERIES

Researchers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), Pasadena, Calif., created a micro robot reminiscent of the…

Integral’s first look at the gamma-ray Universe

ESA’s gamma-ray satellite, Integral, is fully operational. Integral’s first ground-breaking images of the high-energy Universe were…

Successful Ariane launch

Just after midnight on Dec 17-18 an Ariane 4 soared into the sky above Kourou in…

ICESat/CHIPSat LAUNCH RESCHEDULED

The launch of NASA’s ICESat and CHIPSat spacecraft, aboard a Boeing Delta II expendable launch vehicle,…

Canadian Research on Bone Loss in Space

Experience and science experiments have shown that while in microgravity, astronauts can loose up to 2%…

MSG-1 delivers key information about the Earths climate

The GERB instrument onboard the MSG-1 (Meteosat Second Generation) satellite took its first measurements, Thursday 12…

ESA’s Rosetta Mission

Rosetta’s 10 year expedition will begin on 13 January 2003, with an Ariane-5 launch from Kourou…

Safer harbour operations with EGNOS

It will soon be much safer for ships to enter and move around narrow harbours with…

NASA HELPS KICK OFF NATIONAL CENTENNIAL OF FLIGHT CELEBRATION

NASA Administrator Sean O’Keefe helped kick-off the Nation’s celebration of the Centennial of Flight today in…