ESA, DLR Test New Propellant Management Technology
On November 27th, a Texus rocket was launched from Esrange Space Center in Kiruna, Sweden, on a suborbital flight to test a new propellant... Read more →
Keeping Watch on Our Seething Sun
Artist's rendition of spacecraft being impacted by Space weather. (Credits: ESA). Source: ESA Our Sun is more active now than it has been for the... Read more →
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 →