Student Satellite

The SSETI Express educational space mission received vital assistance with spacecraft integration and testing at ESA…

Tripoli from Space

Agricultural smallholdings outside central Tripoli are dwarfed next to a set of vast irrigated fields, as…

NEW MARS ORBITER

NASA’s next mission to Mars will examine it in unprecedented detail from low orbit. It will…

Supernova

Scientists have found that a star that exploded in 1979 is as bright today in X-ray…

CryoSat testing over

The intense mechanical testing period is finally over for the CryoSat satellite, and with launch just…

Cupola Transfer

Ownership of the European-built Cupola observation module for the International Space Station (ISS) was officially transferred…

Smoke Alarms

NASA researchers have successfully tested a new generation of fire detectors that could significantly reduce the…

Space Telescope Launched

A pioneering X-ray detector, developed jointly by NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md., and the…

Three satellites find shy star

An international team of scientists has uncovered a rare type of neutron star so elusive that…

Launch of M-V-6

The M-V Launch Vehicle No. 6 (M-V-6) with the 23rd scientific satellite (ASTRO-EII) onboard was launched…