An Ariane 5 rocket successfully launched two Asian telecoms satellites into orbit from the Kourou space centre in French Guiana on Tuesday, European operator Arianespace announced.
The second Ariane launch of the year lifted off at 7:13 pm local…
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At sunrise in some parts of China and Japan and by sunset in the western United States, a partial solar eclipse is set to slink across a narrow swath of the Earth on May 20 and 21.
Depending on where people are in the eclipse’s path, some may be…
Don Pettit / NASAThis is a composite of 18 time-exposure images photographed from a mounted camera on the International Space Station, from approximately 240 miles above Earth. The image is filled with star trails and spiraling reflections from the spa…
NASA / JPL-Caltech / SSIThe Saturnian moon Daphnis and Pan stir ripples in the giant planet’s rings due to their gravitational effect. Five-mile-wide Daphnis (lower left) is perturbing particles in Saturn’s A ring, while 17-mile-wide Pan (upper right) …
When a former American schoolteacher, a veteran Russian space station commander, and a rookie Russian cosmonaut launched toward the International Space Station Monday, their fiery blastoff was not without a touch of irony: The t…
The ability to breathe new life into an aging satellite using robot mechanics could potentially boost satellite industry efficiency and reduce mission costs, and at least one aerospace firm is forging ahead with plans to do just…
Get ready for some solar action. Earth is entering a period where potentially damaging solar storms can wreak havoc on communications and satellites. That’s what the experts at the Space Weather Prediction Center tell us.
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Two Russians and an American on Tuesday blasted off for the International Space Station (ISS) on a Soyuz rocket in Russia’s first manned space launch for almost five months.
Russians Gennady Padalka and Sergei Revin and American Joseph Acaba sta…
The “Transneft” company and the Navigational Information Systems company have begun to create a system of transport monitoring with the help of GLONAS.
The Russian GLONAS and the American GPS are now being used in Russia in differe…
China’s permanent space station, the Heavenly Palace, is to be launched into orbit within a decade. According to Chinese media reports, the 60-ton craft will include a central module and two laboratories, for a crew of three. So, it’s really more l…