The Soyuz TMA-22 spacecraft carrying Commander Dan Burbank and Flight Engineers Anton Shkaplerov and Anatoly Ivanishin landed in Kazakhstan on Friday, April 27 at 11:45 UTC (7:45 a.m. EDT). They undocked earlier from the International Space Station at 8:18 UTC (4:18
Recently lost ENVISAT still shows no signs of “life”. While satellite observing community wait for some news lets take a look at breathtaking imagery of land and oceans by Envisat’s optical and radar instruments. The satellite is orbiting 497 miles above the
Seventy-six types of unregulated micro-organisms have been detected on the International Space Station (ISS). Though many are harmless, some are already capable of causing severe damage. These organisms corrode metals and polymers and can cause equipment to fail…
Finally, some news about ENVISAT, a massive European satellite that has mysteriously stopped communicating with Earth. On April 8th, it unexpectedly stopped sending data to Earth. Now it has been spotted by another satellite in orbit.On 15 April, the French space
The European Space Agency is struggling to restore contact with its Envisat, the largest civilian Earth-observation satellite ever to fly in space. The first sign that there was a problem came on April 8th when contact with the satellite was unexpectedly lost,
This is the video of riding the Space Shuttle Solid Rocket Boosters (SRBs) up and down in 400 seconds. All the sounds you will hear are real and captured from the Solid Rocket Booster camera system. The sound is all from the camera microphones and not fake or
NASA successfully launched five suborbital sounding rockets on March 27th from its Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia as part of a study of the upper level jet stream.The first rocket was launched at 4:58 a.m. EDT and each subsequent rocket was launched 80 seconds
NASA is still not sure whether the rockets will be launched today but have continued rocket preparation of launch attempt in hope weather might be a “go”.The countdown for the mission was set and started at 7 p.m. EDT, Tuesday, March 20. (23:00 UTC, March 20,
Since the high probability of unacceptable weather is preventing a launch attempt on March 19 again, NASA has rescheduled the launch of its five suborbital sounding rockets from the Wallops Facility in Virginia as part of a study of the upper level jet stream to no
European Space Agency (ESA) announced that this year we will see three very different rockets lift off from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana: the heavy Ariane 5, the medium Soyuz and the latest addition, the new, small Vega. The launch window for
