It’s Curiosity’s first anniversary and The Mars Science Laboratory team talks about what was exciting to them about year one on Mars and what the future has to offer. Curiosity is currently on its way...
HTV-4 Transfer Vehicle launched from the Tanegashima Space Center in Japan for a rendezvous with the International Space Station. The HTV-4 will deliver 3.6 tons of dry cargo, water, experiments and spare parts to...
Recent docking of an unmanned Russian supply craft, Progress 52, with the International Space Station.
A look at the once mighty Russian space programme from the 1930s to 1991 at the collapse of the Soviet Union. Recently the Russian space programme has received funding for many new projects and...
A recent update from NASA. Which includes a report on the leaky space suit and the discovery of a new moon of Neptune.
An unmanned Russian rocket carrying three navigation satellites crashed shortly after lift-off from the Russian-leased Baikonur launch facility in Kazakhstan on Tuesday, Russian media reported. There were no reported injuries. State-run Rossiya-24 television showed...
A lecture given by Stephen Hawking in 2008 at the George Washington University on the future of space travel, its scientific, educational and s0cial benefits. Stephen is accompanied by his daughter, Lucy Hawking.
Curiosity has no less than 17 cameras. A Curiosity Engineer gives an update on what the cameras are and what each one is specifically used for. Curiosity is currently at Point Lake on Mars.
Rocket technology that has been used to put payloads into space is getting obsolete. For next generation space travel governments and private companies are looking at new forms of propulsion and reusable modules. Conventional...
A look at unmanned spacecraft and how they have helped us to understand other worlds. They were built to survive the most hostile environments such as high and extremely low temperatures and high radiation...
Here is the latest update from NASA with details of problems with the Kepler spacecraft, the 40th anniversary of Skylab and the latest news from the NASA laboratories. Don’t miss the Goolge hangout between...
Here’s an update on Curiosity given by a Curiosity project team member. Mars has been on the other side of the Sun compared with Earth making communications difficult hence Curiosity has been having a...
In 2012, the Goddard CARA team participated in collision-avoidance maneuvers for eight missions, which included the Fermi spacecraft which was in danger from being in collision with a Russian satellite. Fermi rockets were designed...
An introduction to ESA, The European Space Agency. The European Space Agency is an intergovernmental organisation, a cooperative coming together of its twenty Member States in their national interest and common good. Even though a...
China successfully launched the ChinaSat 11 communications satellite from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center with a with Long March 3B rocket and successfully entered it into geosynchronous orbit. httpv://youtu.be/hCrS0B3MvRM The communications satellite consists of C-band...
In this NASA video segment learn about the mobile robot NASA plans to use for future missions to Mars and the Moon. The new rover being tested has been dubbed ATHLETE ( the All-Terrain Hex-Limbed...
Here is the latest update from all the NASA facilities and projects. It also includes NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver tour of the Landsat Data Continuity Mission control room and was briefed on Goddard Earth...
A NASA scientist gives the latest update on Curiosity, including information that shows that the Red Planet doesn’t have the same atmosphere it used to. Experiments show that the atmosphere used to be much thicker...
