NASA TELEVISION EXPANDS REACH

NASA Television will improve coverage to viewers in Alaska and Hawaii as well as the continental…

AMSAT “Echo” Satellite to Open

AMSAT-NA’s new “Echo” satellite (AO-51) will be turned on for general use in FM repeat mode…

ISS STATUS REPORT: SS04-022

The International Space Station’s Expedition 9 crewmembers are now past the halfway point of their six-month…

Ship-sinking monster waves

Once dismissed as a nautical myth, freakish ocean waves that rise as tall as ten-storey apartment…

‘Jules Verne’ arrives at ESTEC

After a long and complicated journey by air, land and sea, the Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV)…

NEW MARTIAN METEORITE FOUND IN ANTARCTICA

While rovers and orbiting spacecraft scour Mars searching for clues to its past, researchers have uncovered…

New Observing the Earth website

What is the use of Earth Observation? Quite a lot is the short reply; the full…

TEST OF THE FIRST RTF ENGINE

Engineers at NASA’s Stennis Space Center (SSC) in Mississippi have successfully tested one of the engines…

Galileo moves forward

The GalileoSat development and in-orbit validation phase is well under way and the European Space Agency…

Space tech captures toxic micro-organisms

Sophisticated technology developed to ensure clean air for astronauts onboard space stations is now used in…