SMART-1 set for more lunar science

ESA’s SMART-1 mission in orbit around the Moon has had its scientific lifetime extended by ingenious…

Gourmet space dinner on Greenland icecap

French explorers Olivier Pezeron and Arnaud Fauvet enjoyed gourmet space food on their 20-day Greenland expedition…

World’s Largest Space Mirror

Much of our Universe has long remained invisible. Our eyes perceive only a fraction of the…

Mars Express mission extended

ESA’s Mars Express mission has been extended by one Martian year, or about 23 months, from…

Motorcyclists keep their cool

A motorcycling jacket using space technology is on hand to chill MotoGP riders racing in Malaysia…

Venus Express gets wings

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

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…

Calling all radio amateurs

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