Spin Off Technology

Oil Industry Innovations Prove Valuable to Space Exploration

By Renee Garifi on June 12, 2013

Oil Platform utilizing Astro Technology's downhole monitoring systems (Credits: Astro Technology, Inc) Groundbreaking new technology has recently... Read more →

Rendezvous and Docking

Progress 51 Undocking Reveals No Damage to ATV Sensor

By Matteo Emanuelli on June 12, 2013

An image from the undocking operation of Progress 51 (Credits: Roscosmos) The Progress 51 resupply craft has undocked from the Russian segment of... Read more →

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Chris Hadfield Retires After Return from ISS Command

By Merryl Azriel on June 12, 2013

Chris Hadfield announces his retirement from CSA-ASC headquarters a month after returning from ISS (Credits: CSA-ASC webcast). Just a month after... Read more →

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Space: The New Frontier

By Staff Writers on June 12, 2013

We are witnessing an explosion in private space ventures.  It has been many decades since 'space' was as popular and newsworthy as it is right... Read more →

Extreme Solar Weather

Space Weather Enterprise Forum Looks at Solar Threats

By Merryl Azriel on June 12, 2013

The Solar Dynamics Observatory captured this solar flare on June 7 in the UV range at 131 Angstroms (Credits: NASA). The 2013 Space Weather... Read more →

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China Succesfully Launches New Manned Mission

By Matteo Emanuelli on June 12, 2013

The Long March-2F rocket carrying Shenzhou-10 spacecraft blasts off from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center (Xinhua/Li Gang/news.cn) China has... Read more →