Sounding Rocket Telescope Zooms in on Solar Corona
The Hi-C imager targeted the region of the Sun shown in the top left image from SDO. The border images are subsets of the large image recorded by... Read more →
NASA Technology Spinoff Offers Breath of Fresh Air to Miners
Rescue workers prepare to pull up Chilean miners trapped underground for 69 days using a capsule that incorporated suggestions from NASA (Credits:... Read more →
Galileo Search and Rescue Payload Tested in Space
The Galileo SAR signal measured by ESA Redu Centre (Credits: ESA). The Galileo search and rescue (SAR) package has been successfully tested for... Read more →
Kazakhstan Reduces Proton Launches From Baikonour
Proton-M launch from Baikonour. Kazakhstan has cut down the number of the launches for 2013 (Credits: Roscosmos). Kazakhstan has approved only 12... Read more →
Will Overview Effect Make Everyone a Better Person?
Overview Effect, the feeling frequently described as "awe" experienced by astronauts upon seeing their home planet from space, is getting a lot of... Read more →
ESA’s FlySafe to Make Flying Safer
Bird tracking from ground and space helps planes avoid bird strike (Credits: ESA). Bird strike, when an airplane flies into one or more birds... Read more →