The Space Shuttle Columbia Disaster1

How We Nearly Lost Discovery: Returning to Flight After Columbia

By Staff Writers on April 20, 2012

Shuttle Discovery flying on top of a Boeing 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (Credits: NASA). Now that Discovery is safely delivered to the... Read more →

Press Releases

Investigation on Envisat Continues

By Staff Writers on April 20, 2012

Source: ESA. On 15 April, the French space agency CNES rotated the Pleiades Earth observation satellite to capture this image of Envisat. At a... Read more →

News

NanoRacks Announces External Platform Program

By Ines Hernandez on April 20, 2012

The Center for the Advancement of Science in Space (CASIS) and NanoRacks LLC are developing the External Platform Program (EPP), a new... Read more →

News

First Payload Ready for Next Batch of Galileo Satellites

By Andrea Gini on April 19, 2012

Source: ESA. The next Galileo navigation payload has been completed and is on its way to meet the satellite platform that will host it in... Read more →

Debris Remediation

ViviSat Mission Extension Vehicle

By Staff Writers on April 19, 2012

The ViviSat Mission Extension Vehicle (MEV) is a vehicle currently under development capable of of docking with an operational geosynchronous... Read more →

Kessler Syndrome1

Envisat Service Interruption Increases Likelihood of Collision

By Andrea Gini on April 19, 2012

Artist's conception of the Envisat satellite (Credits: ESA). The European Space Agency lost contact with Envisat, an 8.5 tons remote sensing... Read more →