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A cooperation agreement for joint lunar research and exploration has been signed between the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) and Russia’s Federal Space Agency (Roskosmos). Mr. G Madhavan Nair, the Chairman of the ISRO, and Mr. A. Perminov, the Director of Roskosmos, signed the agreement on November 12th in Moscow.
Read MoreThe Earth’s gravity is going to be used to give Rosetta an exact boost in order for the comet chasing satellite to reach its ultimate destination. The European Space Agency’s (ESA) space vehicle will approach its close encounter with Earth, for the second time, on November 13th.
Read MoreFrom The Hindu online news update service comes a story datelined in Beijing indicating the Chang’e-1, China’s lunar probe, will undergo no further orbital corrections.
Read MoreThe Honorable Jim Prentice, Minister of Industry and Minister responsible for the Canadian Space Agency (CSA), visited the Canadian Space Agency David Florida Laboratory, in Ottawa, to view the next generation commercial satellite, RADARSAT-2. This satellite will launch on December 8, 2007 from Baikonur, Kazakhstan.
Read MoreThe ShanghaiDaily.com online news website is reporting that the Xichang Satellite Launch Center, located in Sichuan Province in southwest China, will be the site of the nation’s first lunar satellite launch, set for October 26th. Named “Chang’e”, the satellite has been given the name of the Chinese goddess who flew to the moon.
Read MoreNewly assembled radar images from Cassini provide the best views of the hydrocarbon lakes and seas on Saturn's moon Titan. A new radar image reveals that Titan's south polar region also has lakes.
Read MoreSurrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) is to launch two new enhanced Disaster Monitoring Constellation (DMC) satellites during the fourth quarter of 2008. Deimos-1, which was built for Deimos SL (Spain), and SSTL's UK-DMC2 will be launched by a Dnepr rocket from the new Kosmotras launch site in southern Ural. Both Demios-1 and UK-DMC2 will carry an enhanced version of the DMC wide area imaging system.
Read MoreOrbital Sciences Corporation [NYSE: ORB] has been selected by the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) to design, manufacture, integrate and test the Nuclear Spectroscopic Array (NuSTAR) scientific satellite. Plus, Orbital Sciences Corporation’s Orbital Boost Vehicle (OBV), which is the booster rocket for the Ground-Based Interceptor (GBI), was successfully launched as part of a test of the Ground-Based Midcourse Defense (GMD) program.
Read MoreThe MESSENGER (Mercury Surface, Space Environment, Geochemistry, and Ranging) probe to Mercury will use low-gain radio frequency antennas and other telecom systems to study various aspects of the planet. The probe’s Radio Science team has just completed a month of successful Doppler performance testing sims within an environment similar to what the probe will encounter in space.
Read MoreNASA's Dawn spacecraft initiated its 3 billion kilometer (1.7 billion mile) journey through the inner solar system on Thursday at 7:34 a.m. Eastern Time (4:34 a.m. Pacific Time). The mission is to study a pair of asteroids. The Delta 2 rocket, fitted with nine strap-on solid-fuel boosters, safely climbed away from the Florida coastline and launch complex 17B at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.
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