The fourth SpaceX Falcon 9v1.1 rocket to launch successfully lifted off of Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral in Florida on April 18th 2014 at 19:25 UTC. The rocket carried the fourth ISS-bound Dragon Spacecraft...
The Progress 55 cargo craft launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan April 9 on a four-orbit, six-hour journey to deliver almost three tons of food, fuel and supplies to the six-man Expedition 39...
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The radar mission is the first of the Copernicus programme, providing an all-weather, day-and-night supply of imagery for Copernicus user services.
A look at missions from the European Space Centre that are due to progress in 2014.
NASA is now planning a mission to send a craft to Europa with the purpose of searching for life below the thick ice. Mission will probably not launch for another ten years or so....
A Japanese H-IIA rocket carrying the NASA-Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Core Observatory blasted off from launch pad 1 at the Tanegashima Space Center at 1:37 p.m. EST on Thursday,...
New Horizons is a NASA mission designed to help us understand worlds at the edge of our solar system by making the first reconnaissance of Pluto and Charon – a “double planet” and the...
Travelling billion of miles from Earth, unmanned probes, are carrying out longer more complex missions then once ever imagined. They are helping to solve the mysteries of the Universe without endangering human life.
NASA is testing new technologies to refuel satellites in space. One of the limiting factors in the satellite lifecycle is the amount of fuel a satellite has to make orbital adjustments so a method...
China’s Jade Rabbit lunar rover had been declared dead on the Moon’s surface. The rover was expected to operate for about three months, but it suffered serious malfunction. However latest news suggests that China’s first...
Just six hours after its launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, the unpiloted ISS Progress 54 cargo craft docked to the International Space Station Feb. 5 to deliver almost three tons of food,...
A look at how one team is looking to revolutionize space travel and exploration by harnessing the energy contained in the dynamic fourth state of matter: plasma.
Last year Russia leaked details of its 18 year plan to go to the Moon and set up ground stations on Mars. Is the plan too ambitious, will they be able to pull it...
An animation of JWST deploying its sunshield and its mirrors. This video includes several additional or alternative animation clips of key deployment actions. n November 2011, Congress reversed plans to cancel the JWST and instead...
Highlights of 2013 from the Ames Research Center. A look back at the space-related missions, research and technology demonstrations completed during 2013 by scientists, researchers and staff at NASA’s Ames Research Center.
Learn about upcoming launches to a nearby asteroid, a comet as it approaches the sun, and the first test flight of NASA’s new Orion crew module. all this is to come in 2014.
