As the 2004 motor-racing season gets underway, technology from Europe’s satellites and launchers is being put…
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Demise in ice and fire
The Bug Nebula, NGC 6302, is one of the brightest and most extreme planetary nebulae known.…
TECHNOLOGY HELPS WEATHER FORECASTERS
NASA is providing new technology and satellite data to help forecasters at the National Oceanic and…
ESA and China’s joint Earth watch begins
More than a hundred leading European and Chinese scientists meet today on the island city of…
Buon appetito: cosmonauts on a Mediterranean diet
In parallel with the DELTA Mission, two Russian cosmonauts on the International Space Station (ISS) –…
ISS STATUS REPORT: SS04-06
The five-crew members aboard the International Space Station are busy with handover briefings and scientific experiments…
SHUTTLE PROCESSING STATUS REPORT: S04-08
The Space Shuttle fleet is housed and processed at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC), Fla. The…
Seeds in Space experiment
Maria van der Hoeven, Dutch Minister for Education, Culture and Science, officially started the Seeds in…
ARCTIC SEA ICE STUDY
Contrary to historical observations, sea ice in the high Arctic undergoes very small, back and forth…
SATELLITES ACT AS THERMOMETERS IN SPACE
Like thermometers in space satellites are taking the temperature of the Earth’s surface or skin. According…