by David Todd | Jun 22, 2015 | JAXA, NASA, Satellites, Science
The joint NASA/JAXA Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) which as retired on 15 April 2015, re-entered the Earth’s atmosphere in the early morning of 16 June 2015 and safely burned up. The mission, which was launched in November 1997 was originally only...
by David Todd | Jun 18, 2015 | NASA, Satellites, Science
NASA has announced that the Argentinian SAC-D spacecraft failed in orbit on 8 June 2015, one year before the end of its five year design life. SAC-D was launched on 10 June 2011. The cause of the failure was due to the failure of a remote terminal unit which effected...
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 | 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 12, 2015 | Satellites, Science
At the 36th International Symposium on Remote Sensing of Environment in Berlin, the European Space Agency (ESA) and Airbus Defence and Space (Airbus DS) signed the development and production contract for the Jason-CS/Sentinel-6A satellite with another to follow as...
