RISky Business For The ISRO
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) plans to launch a Radar Imaging Satellite (RIS) into orbit by the end of 2009.
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Titan Scanned During Cassini Flyby
Cassini swoops down to 960 kilometers (597 miles) over Titan's surface, providing the Ion and Neutral Mass Spectrometer (INMS) with its only dayside pass over the equator during the mission.
Read MoreCatch You On the Red Planet in 2011
If you're already packed, there's been a little delay. NASA's Mars Science Laboratory will launch two years later than previously planned, in the fall of 2011.
Read MoreTandem Team-Up By ESA
Based on the outstanding success of the first tandem mission between ERS-2 and Envisat last year, ESA has paired the two satellites together again to help improve understanding of our planet.
Read MoreSTARBASE to ISS, Come in ISS . . .
Times have changed since just a decade ago, and perhaps we should have gotten a clue with the fact that the students we heard about are part of a program called the STARBASE Atlantis Naval Air Station education program in Corpus Christi, Texas. Because of this the rest just had to follow. . .
Read MoreViewing Venus Via Varying Aspects
A pale yellow dot to the human eye, Earth's twin planet comes to life in the ultraviolet and the infrared. New images taken by instruments on board ESA's Venus Express provide insight into the turbulent atmosphere of our neighboring planet.
Read MoreNASA’s Challenge: How Do You Pin an Award On An Armadillo?
NASA will recognize Armadillo Aerospace, the winner of the 2008 Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge, during a ceremony at 10 a.m. on December 5th at NASA Headquarters, in Washington.
Read MoreSilence From Phoenix Mars Lander Is Deafening
After nearly a month of daily checks to determine whether Martian NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander would be able to communicate again, the agency has stopped using its Mars orbiters to hail the lander and listen for its beep.
Read MoreJuno Jammin’ For Jupiter
NASA is officially moving forward on a mission to conduct an unprecedented, in-depth study of Jupiter. Called Juno, the mission will be the first in which a spacecraft is placed in a highly elliptical polar orbit around the giant planet to understand its formation, evolution, and structure.
Read MoreSaturn Casts A Gigantic Shadow
In this photo from the Cassini-Huygens mission, Saturn's shadow cuts across the rings in this view from high above the ringplane.
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