TIGER Workshop for African water management

A TIGER Initiative offer to make ESA satellite data available for monitoring African water resources sparked…

LESSONS LEARNED DURING ISS 4 YEARS

Each crew aboard the International Space Station discovers more and more about what it takes to…

Sunny Outlook for European weather forecasting

The contract for a fourth Meteosat Second Generation (MSG) spacecraft was signed today, ensuring continuity of…

BLACK HOLE BIRTH AND GAMMA RAY BURSTS

By the end of this day, somewhere in the visible universe a new black hole will…

NEW SHUTTLE LAUNCH PLANNING WINDOW

After an extensive review, NASA is planning its Return to Flight Space Shuttle mission, designated STS-114,…

ISS STATUS REPORT: SS04-037

The crewmembers aboard the International Space Station took a brief break early this week following handover…

Automated Transfer Vehicle

Several European and American astronauts belong to the project management team of the Automated Transfer Vehicle…

SHUTTLE PROCESSING STATUS REPORT: S04-036

The Space Shuttle fleet is housed and processed at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC), Fla. The…

Travelling to Mars

Manned missions beyond the Moon are no longer wild dreams. For example, the objective of ESA’s…

Cassini-Huygens art contest

What lies beneath the hazy atmosphere that envelops Saturn’s moon, Titan? Is the surface of the…