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What’s Ahead for Rosetta – ‘Finding a Landing Strip’ on Bizarre Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko
Where would you land here? Newly released NAVCAM image taken by Rosetta on 5 August 2014 from a distance of…
SOFIA Snapshots: Jupiter And Starbirth Among Achievements For Observatory Facing Sidelines
Just weeks after becoming fully operational, the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) is facing storage in 2015. The airborne observatory…
First-Ever Video of an ATV Vehicle Into Orbit!
Yesterday, June 5, the European Space Agency launched their ATV-4 Albert Einstein cargo vessel from their spaceport in French Guiana.…
How Plasma Technology From Space Will Save Our Lives
[/caption] It might sound obvious to anyone who's ever played a video game in the past thirty years, but plasma…
Dawn gets Big Science Boost at Best Vesta Mapping Altitude
[/caption] NASA’s Dawn mission is getting a whopping boost in science observing time at the closest orbit around Asteroid Vesta…
Asteroid Vesta Floats in Space in High Resolution 3-D
[/caption] The giant Asteroid Vesta literally floats in space in a new high resolution 3-D image of the battered bodies…
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Vrooming over Vivid Vestan Vistas in Vibrant 3 D – Video
[/caption] It’s time to put on your 3-D glasses and go soaring all over the giant asteroid Vesta - thanks…
ROSAT’s Crash Site Determined
[/caption] The German Aerospace Center (DLR) has identified the ROSAT’s satellite final resting place as the Bay of Bengal, off…
ROSAT Satellite has Re-Entered; No Reports of Debris
[/caption] It's official: the ROSAT satellite has come down. The Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR), the German Space…
Latest Update on ROSAT Satellite: Uncontrolled Re-Entry on Oct. 22 or 23
This latest video rendering from from Analytical Graphics, Inc. (AGI) shows ROSAT's current orbit, the satellite's ground track, and the…