An Eye On The Weather — On Venus
The European Space Agency reports the Venus Express has revealed a planet of extraordinarily changeable and extremely large scale weather.
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The ICESat Continueth For Ball Aerospace
The Ice, Cloud and Land Satellite (ICESat) built by Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. will continue operations until at least 2010, following a NASA mission extension contract.
Read MoreMore From Ball—Another Milestone Makegood
On February 13th, the Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. free-flying atmospheric lidar aboard NASA’s Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observations (CALIPSO) mission fired its one billionth laser pulse over the Ivory Coast.
Read MoreIranian Space Probe Sends Signals Successfully
According to reports, Iran has indicated their Kavoshgar (Explorer) space probe that reached space on the back of rocket earlier this month is now sending data back to Earth.
Read More“Gassy” Is Cassini’s Take On Saturn’s Titan
The European Space Agency (ESA) is reporting the Cassini radar team at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in the U.S. has released a study that indicates Saturn's orange moon, Titan, has hundreds of times more liquid hydrocarbons than all of the known oil and natural reserves on Earth.
Read MoreDuplicate Solar System? But Smaller?
From the Nation Science Foundation's online website comes a most interesting space story which illustrates there may well be other solar systems like ours and they may be more common than we think! Here is the excerpted article and graphics... we may NOT be alone!
Read MoreEpoxi Glues Deep Impact To Exosolar Planets
NASA's Deep Impact extended mission for their spacecraft is starting as an extended mission called Epoxi.
Read MoreVenus Gasses Surrender Info to VIRTIS
The European Space Agency's Venus Express has recently 'peeled back' the thick clouds around Venus and has been able to provide the most accurate and wide-ranging map of water vapour and other gases in the lower atmosphere to date.
Read MoreLockheed Martin’s Mooning MIT Maneuver
NASA has scheduled a new mission wherein the internal structure and gravitational forces of the Moon will be analyzed. This will, of course, require a spacecraft, and Lockheed Martin is only too happy to provide such for the project.
Read MoreLockheed Looks To New Lab For Orion Support
Lockheed Martin [NYSE:LMT] has opened a new space Exploration Development Laboratory (EDL) that will support NASA's Project Orion and Constellation Program.
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