Centaur Rocket Camera Shows MSL Spin-up and Separation
The video below, taken from a forward looking camera aboard the Atlas-5 Centaur stage, records NASA's Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) craft spin-up... Read more →
NASA’s FLEX Studies Fire Extinguishing Techniques for Space
FLEX Chamber Insert Assembly Apparatus (Credits: NASA) Fires aboard ISS can pose significant hazards to crew and equipment. Extinguishing... Read more →
Flight Engineer Furukawa Pioneers Space Baseball
JAXA astronaut Satoshi Furukawa who returned from a six month stay aboard ISS on November 22, spent some of his leisure aboard the space station... Read more →
AsiaSat 7 Successfully Launched
AsiaSat 7, a communications satellite destined by Space Systems/Loral (SS/L) for Asia Satellite Telecommunications Company Limited (AsiaSat), was... Read more →
Contact With Phobos Grunt Unreliable
The Phobos Grunt Probe (Credits: Roscosmos). Only intermittent contact has been possible with the ailing Phobos-Grunt probe, despite promising... Read more →
Copenhagen Suborbitals Passes Rocket Test
On November 26, Copenhagen Suborbitals conducted a test of their two-stage rocket SMARAGD. The test was a success, with a 3 second burn on the... Read more →