At 4835 metres high, the snow-dusted peak of the Kliuchevskoi volcano casts a clear shadow in…
Magnetic Field Mission Ends
NASA’s Imager for Magnetopause-to-Aurora Global Exploration (IMAGE) satellite recently ceased operations, bringing to a close a…
Satellites see Solar Wind
A flotilla of space-weather satellites ESA’s Cluster and NASA’s ACE and Wind – observed for…
Polaris – a Triple Star
By stretching the capabilities of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope to the limit, astronomers photographed the close…
Supernova rate for Milky Way
Using ESA’s Integral observatory, an international team of researchers has been able to confirm the production…
Satellites used in Mining
International engineering firm AMEC is working with ESA to improve monitoring of ground subsidence linked to…
Launch of “Daichi” (ALOS) / H-IIA F8
The H-IIA Launch Vehicle No. 8 (H-IIA F8) with the Advanced Land Observing Satellite “Daichi”(ALOS) onboard…
TOPEX/Poseidon Mission ends
The joint NASA/Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales TOPEX/Poseidon oceanography satellite ceased operations after nearly 62,000 orbits of…
JAXA Astronauts Mission Specialists
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) would like to announce that three JAXA astronauts were certified as…
SMART-1 new imaging technique in lunar orbit
ESA’s SMART-1 spacecraft has been surveying the Moon’s surface in visible and near-infrared light using a…