ISS Expedition 12 Commander Bill McArthur, KC5ACR, has proven to be one of the more active…
FLYING WING MODEL SOARS
Ask anyone what an airplane looks like and most will tell you a tube with wings.…
TOMATOSPHERE
TOMATO SEEDS IN STUDENTS’ HANDS, AFTER 18 MONTHS IN SPACE The Tomatosphere educational project will reach…
First Galileo satellites named “GIOVE”
GIOVE – standing for “Galileo In-Orbit Validation Element” – is the name that has been chosen…
Venus Express en route
The European spacecraft Venus Express has been successfully placed into a trajectory that will take it…
Launch of the ATV pushed to 2007
Today, about 98 percent of the hardware for Jules Verne, Europe’s first Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV)…
RADARSAT-1 marks 10 Years in Space
The Canadian Space Agency’s RADARSAT-1 satellite today celebrates its tenth anniversary, having flown 2,354,120,900 km while…
Greenland Ice Sheet Growth
Researchers have utilised more than a decade’s worth of data from radar altimeters on ESA’s ERS…
ASTRONAUT WALTER SCHIRRA HONORED
NASA honored veteran astronaut Walter M. Schirra, Jr., as an Ambassador of Exploration today during a…
Calcutta from Space
This colourful view of West Bengal in India, centred on the megacity of Kolkata (Calcutta), is…