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Tuesday, 23 January 2007 03:53
India's successful deorbit/recovery of SRE-1 spacecraft advances its Chandrayaan lunar mission
The government of India announced that its national space agency Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) successfully brought back from space on January 22, 2007, its…
Barbara Radding Morgan is scheduled to fly on STS-118 aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour to the International Space Station. A member of NASA’s Teacher-in-Space program…
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Sunday, 21 January 2007 05:08
Russian spacecraft docks to replenish space station supplies
By Stan Beer
New supplies arrived at the International Space Station Friday night as an unpiloted Russian cargo spacecraft docked to the Pirs Docking Compartment. The cargo spacecraft…
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Saturday, 20 January 2007 17:37
NASA spacecraft to slingshot around Jupiter on way to Pluto
By Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Due to arrive at Pluto in 2015, NASA’s New Horizons probe is getting close to its gravity slingshot around Jupiter – while making detailed observations…
Saturday, 20 January 2007 01:01
China destroys Feng Yun weather satellite with anti-satellite missile
On January 11, 2007, at about 5:28 p.m. EST, China destroyed one of its aging weather satellites—Feng Yun (FY-1C)—with a ground-based, modified medium-range ballistic missile…
Astronomers studying the centre of our galaxy via the ESA's Integral gamma ray observatory have seen a temporary fading of emissions from around ten normally…
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Wednesday, 17 January 2007 23:01
Large Hadron Collider: Does every particle in the universe consist of points, strings, or loops?
For many years String theory has been a viable adjustment to the Standard Model of particle physics—a quantum field theory that cosmologists hope will unite…
Every country in the world has adopted the metric system for its units of measurements except for Liberia, Myanmar (formerly Burma), and the United States.…
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Tuesday, 16 January 2007 04:47
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft to fly past Jupiter on way to Pluto-Charon system
On January 19, 2006, the NASA New Frontiers space mission called New Horizons was launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, for its mission to the planet…
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Yesterday at sunset, the kids and I went down to the beach armed with a couple of pairs of binoculars to do a little Southern…
