Envisat Mission Declared Over
ESA has declared Envisat's mission over. The agency lost contact with the eight ton Earth observation satellite on April 8, 2012 and has failed... Read more →
Immune Weakness in Space Linked to Enzyme
André Kuipers freezing blood samples aboard ISS (Credits: ESA/NASA). Source: ESA New results from research on the International Space Station... Read more →
Geomagnetic Storm Alert Issued
There is a high probability of a moderate geomagnetic storm hitting Earth over May 9th through 10th in the wake of two coronal mass ejections... Read more →
SHERPA Space Tug to Tow Secondary Payloads
Source: Spaceflight Inc. May 7, 2012 - Seattle, WA - Spaceflight Inc. (Spaceflight) unveiled today its SHERPA in-space tug, which is... Read more →
A New Kind of Music Video from ISS
International Space Station Expedition 30/31 astronaut Don Pettit is known for his demonstrations of physical principles using common objects in... Read more →
Controlling Rocket Body Reentry Risks
Large launch vehicle orbital stages, like this Atlas V Centaur stage, can pose human casualty risks exceeding widely accepted norms (Credits:... Read more →