by David Todd | Apr 30, 2013 | Russia, Science
Orbital Sciences Corporation has been selected by NASA to design built and test a spacecraft for the Ionospheric Connection Explorer (ICON) mission . Orbital will provide its LEOStar-2 spacecraft platform for the two-year mission under a...
by David Todd | Apr 30, 2013 | Science
The mission of the Herschel Space Observatory was formally declared over after liquid helium coolant ran out. Launched, in May 2009, the European Space Agency’s Herschel Space Observatory along with its 3.5 metre diameter mirror and extremely sensitive...
by David Todd | Apr 29, 2013 | Science
All contact with the experimental cubesat Strand 1 has been lost since late March. The exact cause of the failure has not been disclosed, Launched on 25 February as one of the payloads on board an Indian PSLV C Series CA (Core...
by David Todd | Apr 12, 2013 | Science, Seradata News, Technology
US President Barack Obama has formally made his Fiscal Year 2014 budget request for NASA. At $17.7 billion investment the budget is largely unchanged in cash terms from 2012 levels and is $1 billion higher than the 2013 budget, but taking inflation into account,...
by David Todd | Apr 11, 2013 | Science
Following on from the success of its Kepler mission in descovering planets, NASA has selected the TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) mission for construction and then launch in 2017 as part of its Explorer programme. Orbital Sciences Corporation...
by David Todd | Apr 8, 2013 | exploration, Science, Seradata News
Engineers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory at Pasadena have put the Mars Curiosity Rover into a one month hibernation starting on 4 April. The reason is that the planetary alignment of Mars puts the sun and its atmosphere of highly charged particles more or less...
