Media

Astrium Explores Space Debris Harpoon

By Staff Writers on October 11, 2012

Astrium UK is exploring the concept, just presented at the International Astronautical Congress, of a space debris harpoon to help clean up Earth... Read more →

Press Releases

Testing Mars and Moon Soil for Sheltering Astronauts from Radiation

By Staff Writers on October 11, 2012

GSI's 120 m linear particle accelerator (Credits: GSI). Source: ESA Humans venturing beyond Earth orbit deeper into space face increased... Read more →

Extravehicular Activities

Capturing a Spacewalk Moment

By Staff Writers on October 9, 2012

Cosmonaut Oleg Kotov took this photograph of a fellow spacewalker snapping photos during one of his three extravehicular activities. Kotov flew on... Read more →

News

News Shorts: Falcon 9, Felix Baumgartner, and The Spaceship Company

By Merryl Azriel on October 9, 2012

Debris falls following the loss of Engine 1 during Falcon 9's October 7 flight (Credits: SpaceX). Falcon 9 Engine Loss Still Under... Read more →

Curiosity

Adjusting to Sol Takes Toll on Mars Rovers’ Teams

By Tereza Pultarova on October 9, 2012

Celebrating the successful landing was only the beginning. The operations team had to adjust to a longer than terrestrial day to steer to rover... Read more →

Media

As Earth Weathers Geomagnetic Storm, Flare Heralds New Active Region

By Staff Writers on October 9, 2012

Frank Olsen of Sortland, Norway captured this October 7th photo of a sky lit with aurorae and a sea lit with bioluminescent dinoflaggelates... Read more →