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»» Ulysses Spacecraft Ends Historic Mission of Discovery
[Thursday, July 2, 2009] Ulysses officially ceased operations on 30 June 2009, after receiving commands from ground controllers to do so. The spacecraft, which operated for more than 18 years, charted the unexplored regions of space above the poles of the Sun.
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»» Move An Asteroid 2009 Competition
[Thursday, July 2, 2009] Last few days remaining to win a scholarship to attend IAC'09 in Korea through SGAC "Move An Asteroid 2009" Competition!
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»» New Service Helps Twitter Users Spot the Space Station
[Saturday, June 27, 2009] Everyone can see the International Space Station (ISS) without a telescope. Dutch science reporter Govert Schilling and journalist Jaap Meijers have built an online service to let people know when they have to look up to see the ISS pass.
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»» Herschel's daring test: a glimpse of things to come
[Saturday, June 20, 2009] Herschel opened its 'eyes' on 14 June and the Photoconductor Array Camera and Spectrometer obtained images of M51, 'the whirlpool galaxy' for a first test observation.
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»» World's Fastest and Most Sensitive Astronomical Camera
[Thursday, June 18, 2009] The next generation of instruments for ground-based telescopes took a leap forward with the development of a new ultra-fast camera that can take 1500 finely exposed images per second even when observing extremely faint objects.
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»» New from NASA: European satellites probe a new magnetar
[Tuesday, June 16, 2009] On Aug. 22, 2008, NASA's Swift satellite reported multiple blasts of radiation from a rare object known as a soft gamma repeater, or SGR.
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»» Mars mission could ease Earth's energy supply crisis
[Wednesday, June 10, 2009] Techniques and instrumentation initially developed for ExoMars - Europe's next robotic mission to Mars in 2016 - but now due to fly on a NASA mission in 2018, could also provide the answers to the globally pressing issue of energy supply.
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»» SMART-1 Maps Kaguya Lunar Impact Location
[Wednesday, June 10, 2009] The Japanese lunar orbiter Kaguya has completed a productive operational phase and will conclude its scientific mission with a controlled impact on the lunar surface, scheduled for 20:30 CEST today.
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»» Giant SUNRISE Telescope Successfully Launched
[Monday, June 8, 2009] The giant telescope SUNRISE was launched from Esrange Space Center in northern Sweden. At 08.05 (local time) this morning, the largest balloon born telescope ever took off from SSC's launch facility at Esrange Space Center in northern Sweden.
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