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Space station to forge ultra-fast connections
Feb 10, 2020 (ESA)
The upgrade to the ESA Columbus laboratory will relay data from experiments on the Station back to Earth almost instantaneously. The fridge-sized device will fl...
Software defects could have destroyed Boeing Starliner on test flight
Feb 10, 2020 (UPI)
"The two software issues are likely are only symptoms, not the root problem," Douglas Loverro, associate administrator of NASA's Human Exploration and Operation...
Multiple software errors doomed Boeing crew capsule test
Feb 08, 2020 (AFP)
The Starliner's December 20 mission, an uncrewed test flight, was ended early when it failed to engage its thrusters on time, due to a previously reported fault...
Record-Setting NASA Astronaut, Crewmates Return from Space Station
Feb 06, 2020 (SPX)
The trio departed the International Space Station at 12:50 a.m. EST and made a safe, parachute-assisted landing at 4:12 a.m. (3:12 p.m. Kazakhstan time) southea...
Record-breaking US astronaut set to return to Earth
Feb 06, 2020 (AFP)
Koch of NASA is expected to touch down in the Kazakh steppes with colleagues Luca Parmitano of the European Space Agency and Alexander Skvortsov of the Russian ...
The science behind and beyond Luca's mission
Feb 06, 2020 (ESA)
When Luca lands tomorrow in the steppes of Kazakhstan, he will have supported over 200 experiments, of which over 50 are European. Together with Roscosmos' Alex...
Record-breaking US astronaut returns to Earth
Feb 06, 2020 (AFP)
Koch touched down at 0912 GMT on the Kazakh steppe after 328 days in space along with Luca Parmitano of the European Space Agency and Alexander Skvortsov of the...
AdvancingX announces collaborative agreement with ISS National Lab
Feb 05, 2020 (SPX)
The ISS National Lab has established Space Station Explorers (SSE) as a community and multi-partner program to promote educational engagements with a broad arra...
NASA astronaut's record-setting mission helps scientists for future missions
Feb 05, 2020 (SPX)
Koch will return to Earth alongside ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Luca Parmitano and Russian cosmonaut Alexander Skvortsov. She has been a crew member f...
ISRO's Gaganyaan to facilitate space tourism
Feb 04, 2020 (IANS)
Nair while speaking at the space programme, supported by the Kerala government, here said once that capability is achieved by putting three astronauts into spac...
Getting around the Solar System
Feb 04, 2020 (SPX)
In order to get to any of these places, the easiest way is to first get into Earth orbit. This first step requires leaving the terrestrial surface on a launch v...
NASA grants KBR the right to train private astronauts at NASA facilities
Feb 04, 2020 (SPX)
Through this agreement, KBR will be able to train private astronauts in a wide variety of spaceflight tasks including operating onboard International Space Stat...
DLR 2020 - research for climate, mobility and the energy transition
Feb 03, 2020 (SPX)
"Discussion in wider society about the environmental impact of our daily activities has long since found its way onto the streets, squares and schoolyards," say...
Voyager 2 engineers working to restore normal operations
Jan 30, 2020 (JPL)
Multiple fault protection routines were programmed into both Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 in order to allow the spacecraft to automatically take actions to protect t...
NASA selects first commercial destination module for International Space Station
Jan 28, 2020 (SPX)
"NASA has once again recognized the hard work, talent, and experience of Houstonians as we expand the International Space Station and promote commercial opportu...
Bartolomeo starts its journey to the International Space Station
Jan 27, 2020 (SPX)
Bartolomeo is funded by Airbus and will be operated with the support of the European Space Agency (ESA). The platform can host up to 12 different payload slots,...
Astronauts complete Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer repairs during spacewalk
Jan 26, 2020 (UPI)
The duo spent a little over 6 hours during the mission, earning Parmitano the European record for longest cumulative spacewalking time. "We did it. We all did i...
New research launching to station aboard Northrop Grumman's 13th Resupply Mission
Jan 26, 2020 (UPI)
This is the second mission under Northrop's Commercial Resupply Services-2 contract with NASA. These resupply missions help NASA deliver critical research to th...
Beyond Benidorm: Spain tourism moves inland
Jan 26, 2020 (AFP)
Foreign visitors accounted for just five percent of all tourists who stayed at a rural home in the country in 2014. Today they make up 20 percent, according to ...
Spacewalks, science and Beyond
Jan 24, 2020 (ESA)
Acoustic Diagnostics is an Italian Space Agency (ASI) experiment, developed in cooperation with the University of Rome Tor Vergata, to study the effects of micr...
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