Asteroid Mining1

NASA Seeks Commercial Partners for Mining Robot

By Phillip Keane on February 5, 2013

RASSOR demonstrates its off-road skills (Credits: NASA). NASA has announced that it is looking for commercial partners to invest in its RASSOR... Read more →

News

Astrium Awarded Contract For Development Of Ariane 6

By Matteo Emanuelli on February 5, 2013

Ariane 5 ME and Ariane 6 proposal.  The contract, signed on January 30, follows on from the decisions reached at the ESA Ministerial Council... Read more →

News

Sea Launch Investigates Root Cause of Zenit 3SL Malfunction

By Matteo Emanuelli on February 4, 2013

Zenit 3SL about to be launched on the Odyssey platfrom in the Pacific Ocean (Credits: Sea Launch). Sea Launch has provided additional details... Read more →

Media

Crackling Sun Spits Out Coronal Mass Ejection

By Staff Writers on February 3, 2013

On January 31, NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) captured a coronal mass ejection (CME) shooting Earthwards from the Sun. The CME was expected... Read more →

Commercial Spaceflight

Everything You Wanted to Know about Space Tourism but Were Afraid to Ask

By Tereza Pultarova on February 3, 2013

The International Institute of Space Commerce held a workshop in London entitled Space Tourism: Risks and Solution (Credits: Tereza... Read more →

Asteroids and Comets

ISRO to Launch Canada’s First Space Telescope

By Siddharth Raval on February 3, 2013

NEOSSat orbiting above Canada (Credits: University of Calgary). Canada's first space telescope NEOSSat (Near-Earth Object Space Surveillance... Read more →