The International Space Station’s Expedition 9 crewmembers are now past the halfway point of their six-month…
Ship-sinking monster waves
Once dismissed as a nautical myth, freakish ocean waves that rise as tall as ten-storey apartment…
‘Jules Verne’ arrives at ESTEC
After a long and complicated journey by air, land and sea, the Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV)…
NEW MARTIAN METEORITE FOUND IN ANTARCTICA
While rovers and orbiting spacecraft scour Mars searching for clues to its past, researchers have uncovered…
New Observing the Earth website
What is the use of Earth Observation? Quite a lot is the short reply; the full…
TEST OF THE FIRST RTF ENGINE
Engineers at NASA’s Stennis Space Center (SSC) in Mississippi have successfully tested one of the engines…
Galileo moves forward
The GalileoSat development and in-orbit validation phase is well under way and the European Space Agency…
Space tech captures toxic micro-organisms
Sophisticated technology developed to ensure clean air for astronauts onboard space stations is now used in…
35th anniversary of Moon Landing
During a special ceremony to commemorate the 35th anniversary of human exploration of the Moon, Administrator…
ISS STATUS REPORT: SS04-021
Aboard the International Space Station, the Expedition 9 crew concentrated on a host of scientific experiments…