Paris (ESA) Apr 19, 2012 - ESA astronaut Timothy Peake will soon dive to the bottom of the sea to learn more about exploring space. A permanent underwater base almost 20 m below the waves off the coast of Florida will be Tim'
Paris (ESA) Apr 18, 2012 - Reliable Internet access on the Moon, near Mars or for astronauts on a space station? How about controlling a planetary rover from a spacecraft in deep space? These are just some of the pioneering t
Kourou, French Guiana (ESA) Apr 18, 2012 - The two Lockheed Martin-built satellites for Arianespace's upcoming Ariane 5 dual-payload mission are now at the Spaceport for a fast-paced launch campaign that will lead to the orbiting of JCSAT-13
Brownsville, Texas (UPI) Apr 17, 2012 - Private space company Space Exploration Technologies Corp. may add a small Texas town on the Gulf of Mexico to its list of rocket launch sites, documents show.
Houston TX (SPX) Apr 17, 2012 - Here, there be dragons ... the phrase used to designate the boundaries of the known world on historical maps seems fitting as the U.S. space program embarks upon a new frontier in space exploratio
Kourou, French Guiana (SPX) Apr 17, 2012 - Europe's latest second-generation meteorological spacecraft has arrived at the Spaceport, where it is being readied for Arianespace's June 19 dual-payload Ariane 5 mission from French Guiana.
Washington (AFP) April 17, 2012 - Piggybacking aboard a Boeing 747, the space shuttle Discovery made a dramatic flyover of Washington Tuesday before touching down near its final resting place, a museum outside the US capital.
Pasadena CA (JPL) Apr 17, 2012 - The Voyager 1 spacecraft is exploring the outer heliosheath past about 111 astronomical units (AU) from the Sun. he heliosheath is the region where the outgoing solar wind is slowed by the int
Bethesda MD (SPX) Apr 17, 2012 - Everyone in the space community knows that the single biggest hurdle to space commerce is the cost of launching satellites into orbit. This has been true from the dawn of the space age, and continue
Moscow (Voice of Russia) Apr 17, 2012 - 21st century runs into its second decade, but man's space endeavours are still largely limited to the near-Earth orbit. Space agencies in USA, Russia, Europe and China debate the future of manned sp
Washington (AFP) April 16, 2012 - NASA said Monday said there is a good chance SpaceX will soon become the first private company to attempt to launch its spacecraft to the International Space Station on an unmanned cargo mission.
Moscow (Voice of Russia) Apr 16, 2012 - According to Russia's Nuclear Agency (Rosatom) the nuclear power and propulsion installation of the megawatt-class is to be built by 2017. The assembly will start already next year, first units of t
Pyongyang (AFP) April 13, 2012 - North Korea admitted Friday its long-range rocket launch had failed, disintegrating mid-air and plunging into the sea soon after liftoff in a major embarrassment for the reclusive state.
Seoul (AFP) April 13, 2012 - North Korea's rocket exploded mid-air before splashing down in the Yellow Sea off South Korea, Seoul's defence ministry said Friday.
Washington DC (SPX) Apr 13, 2012 - Researchers will be able to expose experiments to the weightlessness and vacuum of space by using a new commercial platform outside of the International Space Station (ISS). NanoRacks will develop a
Pyongyang (AFP) April 13, 2012 - North Korea's heralded long-range rocket test ended in failure Friday, disintegrating in mid-air soon after blastoff and plunging into the sea in a major embarrassment for the reclusive state.
