On Nov. 1, 2018, the USS John P. Murtha recovered the test version of the Orion capsule at sunset in the Pacific Ocean. This is one in a series of tests that will verify and validate procedures and hardware that will be used to recover the Orion spacecraft after it splashes down in the Pacific […]
ESA’s future Lagrange mission will keep watch our our dynamic Sun, providing early warning of potentially harmful solar activity before it affects satellites in orbit or power grids on ground To source
Technology image of the week: ESA’s technology-testing Proba-V minisatellite images the location of the impact that doomed the dinosaurs 66 million years ago To source
KOUNOTORI7 Leaves the ISS Last Updated: November 8, 2018 KOUNOTORI7 being released by the SSRMS (Credit: JAXA/NASA) Captured by the Space Station Remote Manipulator System (SSRMS), KOUNOTORI7(HTV7) was moved to the releasing point below the station and released into orbit at 01:50 a.m., November 8. After the HTV7 release, between the ISS, HTV Flight Control […]
Malaysian Samples Handed Over to JAXA, Exposure Experiments on ExHAM starts next spring Last Updated: November 8, 2018 On November 2, 2018, Dr. Noramaliza Mohd Noor, a senior lecturer of Universiti Putra Malaysia, handed over samples of the Material Exposure Experiment to JAXA at the Tsukuba Space Center, while the researchers, ground operators and other […]
It was five years ago this month that ESA’s GOCE gravity-mapping satellite finally gave way to gravity, but its results are still yielding buried treasure – giving a new view of the remnants of lost continents hidden deep under the ice sheet of Antarctica. To source
After a 24-hour journey from Bremen, Germany with stops in Hamburg and Portsmouth, USA, the European Service Module landed yesterday at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. To source
The third MetOp satellite, MetOp-C, has been launched on a Soyuz rocket from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana to continue the provision of data for weather forecasting from polar orbit. To source
KOUNOTORI7 was unberthed from the nadir port of Harmony (Node 2) by the SSRMS Last Updated: November 8, 2018 KOUNOTORI7 unberthed from the ISS by the SSRMS. (Credit: JAXA/NASA) KOUNOTORI7(HTV7) was unberthed from the nadir port of Harmony (Node 2) by the Space Station Remote Manipulator System (SSRMS) at 8:32 p.m., November 7. HTV7 will […]
Earth Enveloped in Airglow To source
Human and robotic exploration image of the week: Optical phenomenon seen by ESA’s Alexander Gerst from the International Space Station To source
The hatch of KOUNOTORI7 was closed Last Updated: November 7, 2018 Hatch of the HTV7 was closed. This hach is HRSC unique structue and including HRSC itself. HRSC is installed under the white cover. (Credit: JAXA/NASA) The KOUNOTORI7 hatch closure was confirmed at 0:26 a.m., November 7. *All times are Japan Standard Time (JST. UTC […]
Follow the launch of the latest MetOp weather satellite from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana. Liftoff is set for 7 November at 00:47 GMT (01:47 CET). Streaming from Arianespace starts at 01:27 CET To source