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Feel the bandwidth. Those who live in out-of-the way places in the UK and the rest of Europe, and who have been feeling digitally deprived, now have a new friend in the sky. This week saw the entrance into commercial service of Ka-Sat, a six-tonne telecommunications spacecraft dedicated to providing broadband internet to consumers and businesses [...]
A spacecraft or spaceship is a craft or machine designed for spaceflight. Spacecraft are used for a variety of purposes, including communications, earth observation, meteorology, navigation, planetary exploration and transportation of humans and cargo. On a sub-orbital spaceflight, a spacecraft enters space and then returns to the surface, without having gone into an orbit. For orbital spaceflights, spacecraft enter closed orbits around the Earth or around other celestial bodies. Spacecraft used for human spaceflight carry [...]
An artist’s illustration of the WISE orbiting spacecraft, which will snap millions of pictures of asteroids, comets and galaxies NASA launched a new telescope into space on Monday to scan the cosmos for undiscovered objects, including asteroids and comets that might threaten Earth. The Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, spacecraft will employ an infrared [...]
NASA’s latest unmanned missions to the moon have scientists rethinking their concepts of Earth’s closest neighbor. Forget almost everything you ever thought you knew about the moon.NASA’s latest missions indicate the moon is much more than a dead, unchanging satellite orbiting Earth. It’s a dynamic environment, with changes occurring by the day and week, not [...]
Hubble’s discovery indicates galaxies formed millions of years earlier than astronomers previously thought. NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has reached back 13.2 billion years — farther than ever before in time and space — to reveal a “primordial population” of galaxies never seen before.”The deeper Hubble looks into space, the farther back in time it looks, [...]
India is launching a series of rockets to study the impact of Friday’s solar eclipse, a rare occurrence that will briefly reduce the sun to a blazing ring. The Indian Space Research Organization has already sent up three rockets, and at least five others are scheduled for launch during the eclipse, its spokesman, S. Satish, [...]
NASA has launched an investigation after a small of amount of cocaine was found at Kennedy Space Center in Florida NASA says it has launched an investigation after finding cocaine in a processing hangar for a space shuttle at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. A small amount of cocaine was found in a restricted area [...]
Space technologies have led to a number of inventions that benefit the environment and save energy. Satellite-based systems are reducing vehicles’ carbon dioxide emissions, remote-sensing technology is making wind turbines more efficient, and information from weather satellites is helping solar cells to produce more energy. These are just some examples of how spin-offs from space [...]
ESA PR 2010-01 Press conferences, exhibitions, launches, political rendezvous and much more. The following list covers the main Communication activities that ESA will be involved in this year, but is not exhaustive. Please pencil in these events in your diary. January 14/1 ESA Director General Jean-Jacques Dordain meets the press at ESA Headquarters, Paris, France, [...]
The ExoMars Programme ESA’s Council yesterday gave the go-ahead to proceed with the implementation of the ExoMars Programme. This decision paves the way for two Mars exploration missions in cooperation with NASA in 2016 and 2018. The ExoMars Programme aims to investigate the martian environment, particularly astrobiological issues and to develop and demonstrate new technologies [...]