News articles tagged with 'mission'
Dawn enters asteroid belt - for good
— 18 Nov 2009 09:55 | AstronomyNASA's Dawn spacecraft re-entered our solar system's asteroid belt 13 November and this time it will stay there... — full story
SMOS satellite successfully launched
— 3 Nov 2009 10:53 | EnvironmentA rocket carrying the European Space Agency's (ESA) Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) satellite (2 November) blasted off successfully today at 02:50 Central European Time from... — full story
Soil moisture and ocean salinity satellite ready for launch
— 30 Oct 2009 10:27 | EnvironmentA new European Earth observation satellite will be launched in the early hours of Monday morning (2 November 2009) from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northern Russia... — full story
Final look at ESA's SMOS and Proba-2 satellites
— 22 Oct 2009 08:19 | EnvironmentAs preparations for the launch of SMOS and Proba-2 continue on schedule, the engineers and technicians at the Russian launch site say goodbye as both satellites are encapsulated within... — full story
Cassini data help redraw shape of solar system
— 16 Oct 2009 13:45 | AstronomyImages from the Ion and Neutral Camera on NASA's Cassini spacecraft suggest that the heliosphere, the region of the sun's influence, may not have the comet-like shape predicted by existing... — full story
IBEX satellite finds ribbon-like structure at edge of heliosphere
— 16 Oct 2009 09:00 | AstronomyThe invisible structures of space are becoming less so, as scientists look out to the far edges of the solar wind bubble that separates our solar system from the interstellar cloud... — full story
Small gems in space
— 19 Sep 2009 10:35 | TechnologyA combination of small satellites can, with innovative methods, use the signals of the navigation satellite systems GPS and Galileo to significantly improve remote sensing of the System... — full story
Chinks in ISS armour deliver data on space junk impacts
— 17 Sep 2009 13:04 | AstronomyEach pointing in a different direction - forward in the direction of orbit, upwards and sideways out to space - the three 10 by 10 cm aluminium foil panels formed the sensor units of... — full story
![Bug Nebula [NGC 6302]. This celestial object looks like a delicate butterfly, (c) NASA, ESA, and the Hubble SM4 ERO Team](../images/news/ngc_6302_120_78.jpg)
First images from rejuvenated Hubble unveiled
— 9 Sep 2009 17:00 | AstronomyAstronomers declared NASA's Hubble Space Telescope a fully rejuvenated observatory with the release today of observations from four of its six operating science instruments. Sen. Barbara... — full story
ESA campaign reveals glimpse of future Sentinel-3 imagery
— 9 Sep 2009 11:50 | EnvironmentAs part of the development process for ESA's Sentinel-3 Earth observation mission, remote-sensing experts carried out an extensive experiment campaign across southern Europe this summer.... — full story