Herschel + Planck Launch Date Arrested
Verifications of the European space science payload on Arianespace's upcoming Ariane 5 mission are being continued, resulting in the postponement of a final launch date determination by a few days.
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The 7 Receive Award at the 25th National Space Symposium for Being 1st
Next week at the 25th National Space Symposium in Colorado Springs, Colorado, China's Shenzhou 7 Manned Space Flight Team, which packed a number of "firsts" for the Chinese space program into a single mission, will receive the 2009 Space Achievement Award.
Read MoreCassini Crater Captures
The terminator between light and dark throws Saturn's moon Rhea's cratered surface into stark relief while the southern hemisphere is scored by bright icy cliffs.
Read MoreTitan Flyover By Cassini Offers 3D Topography
The new flyover maps of Saturn's moon, Titan, show, for the first time, the 3-D topography and height of the 1,200-meter (4,000-foot) mountain tops, the north polar lake country, the vast dunes more than 100 meters (300 feet) high that crisscross the moon, and the thick flows that may have oozed from possible ice volcanoes.
Read MoreSolar Mission Scientific Instruments Selected By NASA
NASA has selected three teams to design and build science instruments for a proposed European-led solar mission — the instruments, with a total value of approximately $81 million, are part of NASA's Living with a Star Program.
Read MoreUnderwater Autonomy In Frigid Environs — AUV’s Antarctic’s Assignments
Autosub, a robot submarine built and developed by the U.K.’s National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, has successfully completed a high-risk campaign of six missions travelling under an Antarctic glacier.
Read MoreGOCE Going Great Guns
After liftoff 17 March, ESA's GOCE spacecraft is performing very well, having achieved an extremely accurate injection altitude of 283.5 km, just 1.5 km lower than planned.
Read MoreFungus Among Us — Space Swabbing
Astronauts working outside the International Space Station on March 19th used an innovative laboratory device to detect how biological material may be spread in space.
Read MoreMoonlet Found By Cassini In Saturn’s G Ring
NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has found within Saturn’s G ring an embedded moonlet that appears as a faint, moving pinprick of light, which scientists believe is a main source of the G ring and its single ring arc.
Read MoreHubble Captures Show As Saturn’s Four Rings Pass In Front of Parent
On 24 February 2009, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope captured a photo sequence of four moons of Saturn passing in front of their parent planet.
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