February 2016
200 Days in Space: Living in Orbit
... of special windows that allow 360 degree views, during Cristoforetti’s mission How about water? We’re human beings and we need water to... I got a really nice treat towards the end of the mission - an espresso machine from Italy. So our crew had the...
11 December 2020
NASA reveals Artemis Team to train for moon landings
...Team will help NASA prepare for the coming Artemis missions, which begin next year working with the agency’s ... job representing NASA and the United States on a future Artemis mission.” The Artemis Team members are: Joseph Acaba, Kayla Barron, ...
06 September 2016
Philae's final resting place has been found
... 12 November 2014. “With only a month left of the Rosetta mission, we are so happy to have finally imaged Philae, and to ... down in the history books as being part of a mission that (mostly) overcame the tremendously difficult technical challenges that...
31 October 2016
Swarm constellation helps figure out why satellites lose their GPS signal
.... Launched in 2013, Swam is an European Space Agency mission to study Earth’s magnetic field. The data gathered will ...times and now thanks to the data obtained by this mission, scientists now know why satellites sometimes lose their GPS connection...
20 January 2017
Winners and potential losers of the Obama and Trump administrations
... Observatory, the Curiosity Mars rover, the New Horizons mission to Pluto, Juno, and the James Webb Space ... seems is still on the agenda, and possibly so too are solar-system missions such as searching for signs of life in the oceans of Jupiter’s icy ...
28 April 2017
Cassini's first dive between Saturn and its rings
...atmospheric pressure of Earth at sea level – and while mission managers were confident Cassini would complete the manoeuvre successfully, ... it. The craft, which is now back in contact with mission control, is in the process of beaming back science and...
