by David Todd | Jul 17, 2015 | exploration, NASA, Science, Seradata News
NASA has released a series of detailed images of the “dwarf planet” Pluto and its nearby moon, Charon, taken by the New Horizons spacecraft launched in January 2006. The first really good image of Pluto was taken by the Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) on 13...
by David Todd | Jun 15, 2015 | ESA, exploration, Satellites, Science, Seradata News
The European Space Agency’s Philae Minilab Lander, which had been in enforced hibernation for seven months after landing in a shadowy crevice on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, has woken up. Signals from the craft were received at ESA’s European Space...
by David Todd | Jun 14, 2015 | ESA, exploration, Technology
As he awaited the start of his tenure as Director General of the European Space Agency (ESA) on 1 July 2015, replacing the admired Jean-Jacques Dordain in the role, Dr Jan (Johann Dietrich) Woerner noted his enthusiasm for a planned lunar base and village on the Moon...
by David Todd | May 13, 2015 | exploration, NASA, Science, Seradata News
A brilliant image of the Martian sunset, taken from the Mars Curiosity Rover’s location in Gale Crater, shows how the dust in the atmosphere scatters the light on the planet actually causing blue sunsets in the normally yellow-orange sky. This is a opposed to...
by David Todd | May 13, 2015 | exploration, JAXA, Satellites, Science
The attempt of the Japanese small satellite Procyon to visit an asteroid has been called off. Following the failure of the ion engine in March 2015, the planned orbital correction for an Earth slingshot gravity assist to send the craft towards asteroid 2000 DP 107...
by David Todd | May 8, 2015 | exploration, Satellites, Science
The Arab world will soon have its eyes on Mars, or so the recently formed space agency of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) hopes. It has announced plans to launch a mission, titled the Emirates Mars Mission, in July 2020 to arrive at the red planet the following year,...
