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Following the selection of the Laplace proposal in October of 2007 as a candidate mission within the Cosmic Vision plan, the European Space Agency (ESA) performed an internal assessment study, with this preliminary study completed in 2008.
Read MoreMitsubishi Heavy Industries and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) were scheduled to launch the Greenhouse Gases Observing Satellite "IBUKI" (GOSAT) by the H-IIA Launch Vehicle No. 15 (H-IIA F15) on January 22, 2009 (Japan Standard Time, JST), from the Tanegashima Space Center.
Read MoreAnatoly Zak of RussianSpaceWeb.com alerts our readers to the fact that Russia is preparing to launch the country's first science satellite in years.
Read MoreThey're busy at work on the engineering aspect of Chandrayaan-II, which has begun and is scheduled to be launched by 2012, according to Mayilsamy Annadurai, Project Director Chandrayaan-1.
Read MoreMars today is a world of cold and lonely deserts, apparently without life of any kind, at least on the surface . . .
Read MoreUsing a NASA radar flying aboard India's Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft, scientists are getting their first look inside the moon's coldest, darkest craters.
Read MoreThree of Saturn's satellites are visible in this snapshot from the Cassini spacecraft.
Read MoreOverexposed Mimas stands starkly against the disk of Saturn as the dim shadow of Epimetheus is captured through the C ring in the planet's rings.
Read MoreOn Jan. 14, NASA's Lockheed Martin built Stardust-NExT spacecraft will fly by Earth during a gravity assist maneuver that will increase its velocity and sling shot the spacecraft into an orbit to meet up with comet Tempel 1 in February 2011.
Read MoreThe European Space Agency's (ESA) XMM-Newton has caught the fading glow of a tiny celestial object, revealing its rotation rate for the first time.
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