The last outstanding hardware needed before arrival of the Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV), the European-built ISS…
Galaxy Collisions
Data from ISO, the infrared observatory of the European Space Agency (ESA), have provided the first…
ISS STATUS REPORT: SS05-016
The residents of the International Space Station completed a 4-hour, 30-minute spacewalk today. The crew installed…
SHUTTLE PROCESSING STATUS REPORT: S05-012
The Shuttle fleet is housed and processed at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC), Fla. Mission: STS-114…
DEEP IMPACT MISSION REPORT
NASA’s Deep Impact spacecraft completed the commissioning phase of the mission and has moved into the…
Countdown to Shuttle return to flight
Launch pad 39B at Kennedy Space Center in Florida will soon see the Shuttle blasting off…
Proba Yielding Beautiful Results
In orbit for three and a half years now, ESA’s smallest Earth Observation satellite is making…
Earth’s Magnetic Field
The Japanese satellite Akebono, launched in 1989, has been at the centre of major discoveries about…
Sand Dunes from Space
This Envisat image shows two huge sand dune seas in the Fezzan region of southwestern Libya,…
FIRST CENTENNIAL CHALLENGES
NASA and its partner, the Spaceward Foundation, today announced prizes totaling $400,000 for four prize competitions,…