Europe's last cargo ship reaches the International Space Station
A European resupply line to the International Space Station closed on Tuesday with the arrival of a fifth and final freighter to the orbital outpost. Europe's Automated Transfer Vehicle 5 (ATV-5) blasted off two weeks ago with more than 7 tons of cargo for the ...
The government intends to create a space monitoring division within the Self-Defense Forces by around 2019 and the Defense Ministry has already informed the United States, a source close to the bilateral relationship said Saturday. Initially, the force will be tasked with monitoring dangerous debris ...
'Space Expo' offers a cosmic sense of wonder
With man's natural curiosity and a potentially endless, undiscovered universe waiting to be explored, it's no wonder that space appeals equally to both the scientist and the fantasist. The "Space Expo 2014" collaborative exhibition being hosted through Sept. 23 by U.S. space agency NASA ...
Forty-five years after the first Apollo lunar landing, the United States remains divided about the moon's role in future human space exploration. Ten more U.S. astronauts followed Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin's July 20, 1969, visit to the moon before the Apollo program was canceled ...
Launchpad glitch delays liftoff of NASA carbon-hunting satellite
The launch of an unmanned Delta 2 rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California was called off less than a minute before liftoff Tuesday when the launchpad's water system failed, a live NASA Television broadcast showed. The rocket, built and flown by United Launch ...
A helium balloon carrying an experimental saucer-shaped NASA spacecraft floated off a launch tower at the U.S. Navy's Pacific Missile Range Facility in Kauai, Hawaii, on Saturday to test landing systems for future missions to Mars. A novel inflatable shield to burn off speed worked ...
Russia set to launch first new space rocket since Soviet era
Russia was to debut its first new design of space rocket since the Soviet era in a launch from its own territory on Friday, aiming to end its reliance on the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan and on foreign suppliers. More than two decades in the ...
Asteroid Itokawa, reached by an unmanned Japanese space probe in 2005, might be listed as one of the candidates for a human exploration project being considered for the mid-2020s, NASA has said. The U.S. space agency said Thursday it is looking at several asteroids with ...
Your ad in this space: Private companies fund cleanup of orbiting junk
Nobu Okada wants to save the planet from orbiting junk, which he says threatens to cut us off from the satellites we depend on and prevent us from traveling into space. But to help fund that, he needs to land a can of powdered ...
Space-based power stations on the horizon
Space-based solar power could eventually prove to be an alternative source of electricity for Japan, as the country struggles to find the best energy mix to lessen its dependence on thermal and nuclear power. The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has been conducting studies in ...
A group of citizen scientists can take over a 36-year-old decommissioned robotic space probe that will fly by the Earth in August, NASA says. Launched in 1978, the International Sun/Earth Explorer-3 (ISEE-3) spacecraft studied how the stream of charged particles flowing from the sun, the ...
An asteroid that exploded last year over Chelyabinsk, Russia, leaving more than 1,000 people injured by flying glass and debris, collided with another asteroid before hitting Earth, new research by scientists shows. Analysis of a mineral called jadeite that was embedded in fragments recovered after ...
