Venus Express gets wings

Both solar array ‘wings’ have been installed on ESA’s Venus Express spacecraft, and preparations at the…

NEXT GENERATION SPACECRAFT

NASA Administrator Michael Griffin today released the results of the agency’s exploration architecture study – a…

Ayers Rock Australia

The vast rock formation Uluru (formerly known as Ayers Rock) emerging from the flat desert landscape…

Alpine landscape on the Moon

This image, taken by the Advanced Moon Micro-Imager Experiment (AMIE) on board ESA’s SMART-1 spacecraft, shows…

CryoSat Mission lost due to launch failure

Saturday 10/09/2005 at 21.00 CEST Mr Jury Bakhvalov, First Deputy Director General of the Khrunichev Space…

ISS and Ham Radio

Thirteen Japanese youngsters had the opportunity earlier this month to speak via Amateur Radio with NASA…

Telemetry Download Competition

ESA announces SSETI Express telemetry download competition: The European Space Agency (ESA) education department has announced…

Syracuse 3A Prepared

The Ariane 5 Generic launcher for Arianespace’s next mission is now in the final assembly facility…

Calling all radio amateurs

Radio amateurs worldwide are being asked to help collect data from the student-built SSETI Express satellite,…

Re-entry of SOLAR-A

According to information from the Space Surveillance Network (SSN) of the USA, the Solar X-ray Observatory…