April 2021
Predicting dengue fever outbreaks from space
... the past 50 years and the 30 countries where it is most endemic. D-MOSS is funded by the UK Space Agency’s (UKSA) International Partnership Programme and the first system implementation took place in Vietnam in June 2019. The forecasts of dengue...
21 October 2016
Soyuz MS-02/48S successfully docks with the ISS
Soyuz spacecraft carrying three Expedition 49/50 crew members has successfully docked with the International Space Station on Friday morning, bringing the total number of astronauts on the ISS back up to six. Expedition 50 commander ...
16 November 2016
Proxima mission to the ISS ready for launch tomorrow
... astronaut Thomas Pesquet, NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson and Roscosmos commander Oleg Novitsky will head to the International Space Station on a two day flight aboard a Soyuz rocket that has blasted off from Baikonur cosmodrome...
02 February 2018
How a year in space affects your body
... you spend a year floating above the earth? In March 2015, American astronaut Scott Kelly headed to the International Space Station (ISS) to take part in a year-long study conducted by NASA to improve our knowledge on the medical...
12 March 2018
Satellite-servicing space drones set for launch in 2020
U.S based International Launch Services (ILS) and UK headquartered Effective Space have announced a partnership that will see the two ...
04 April 2018
A storm hunter and space junk collector on its way to the ISS
... new weather phenomenon were finally captured on camera by ESA astronaut Andreas Mogensen during his mission on the International Space Station in 2015. ASIM will therefore use a suite of instruments including light sensors and X- and gamma...
