The 150-kilometre-per-hour winds of Typhoon Nida brought destruction and death to the Philippines this week. At…
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Rocket carrying ham radio reaches space
Following its May 17 launch from Nevada’s Black Rock Desert, a solid-fuel amateur rocket carrying a…
FIRST COLUMBIA DEBRIS LOANED FOR RESEARCH
The first pieces of Space Shuttle Columbia debris, loaned to a non-governmental agency for testing and…
Beagle 2: lessons learned
The Commission of Inquiry on Beagle 2, jointly set up in February between ESA and the…
CHANDRA SEES DARK ENERGY
Astronomers have detected and probed dark energy by applying a powerful, new method that uses images…
It is awkward being in weightlessness
After Wubbo Ockels (1985), ESA astronaut André Kuipers is now the second Dutchman to know what…
TERRA SATELLITE TRACKS GLOBAL POLLUTION
Data from NASA’s Terra satellite is adding to our understanding of how pollution spreads around the…
AN AURA AROUND THE EARTH
On June 19, NASA will launch Aura, a next generation Earth-observing satellite. Aura will supply the…
ISS STATUS REPORT: SS04-009
The crew of the International Space Station (ISS) is working through its regular schedule of operations…