Astronomy
- Foreign Universities' Satellites To Be Launched By Isro
Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is gearing up to launch foreign universities into space.Five months after ISRO launched India's first student satellite " Anusat" on April 20 , it will place in orbit four university satellites in September.They...
- Ariane 5 Rocket Launches Double Science Payload
An Ariane 5 launcher rocketed through blue skies and into space on 14.5.09 with two European telescopes designed to give scientists unprecedented views of star birth and the relic light from the Big Bang. The bullet-shaped rocket, powered by a hydrogen-burning...
- Nasa's Ares I-x Rocket Launches For Flight Test
NASA's 327-foot (100 m) tall ARes I-X rocket launched at 11:30 a.m. from Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Wednesday. The powered flight lasted for two minutes, at the end of which, the rocket's first stage, a four-segment solid rocket booster,...
- Europe's Spacetaxi Prepares For Lift-off.
The European Space Agency is preparing to launch an experimental space plane known as IXV [Intermediate eXperimental Vehicle].If all goes to plan, the car-sized Intermediate eXperimental Vehicle will be launched from a spaceport in French Guiana on 11...
- Fundamental Particles That Made Universe
Formation of Matter All matter, including the atoms in our bodies, the air we breathe and the gas in the Sun is composed is combinations of fundamental particles that were created during the Big Bang and subsequent evolution of the Universe. Before giving...
Astronomy
Herschel and Planck gear up for 14 May launch
ESA's two missions to probe the far reaches of the Universe are gearing up to launch from the Guiana Space Center in French Guiana on 14 May.
The two satellites, Herschel and Planck, will share a ride aboard the same Ariane 5 rocket. Shortly after launch they will separate and follow different trajectories to the second Lagrangian point of our Solar System, 1.5 million kilometres from Earth.
Both missions? instruments have completed their final checkouts, and the spacecrafts? thruster tanks have been fueled.
Planck will be dedicated to answering fundamental questions about the origin and evolution of the Universe by peering back to just 400,000 years after the Big Bang gave birth to existence. It will spend at least 15 months mapping the cosmic microwave background, light from the primordial soup of particles that eventually evolved to become our modern-day Universe.
- Foreign Universities' Satellites To Be Launched By Isro
Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is gearing up to launch foreign universities into space.Five months after ISRO launched India's first student satellite " Anusat" on April 20 , it will place in orbit four university satellites in September.They...
- Ariane 5 Rocket Launches Double Science Payload
An Ariane 5 launcher rocketed through blue skies and into space on 14.5.09 with two European telescopes designed to give scientists unprecedented views of star birth and the relic light from the Big Bang. The bullet-shaped rocket, powered by a hydrogen-burning...
- Nasa's Ares I-x Rocket Launches For Flight Test
NASA's 327-foot (100 m) tall ARes I-X rocket launched at 11:30 a.m. from Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Wednesday. The powered flight lasted for two minutes, at the end of which, the rocket's first stage, a four-segment solid rocket booster,...
- Europe's Spacetaxi Prepares For Lift-off.
The European Space Agency is preparing to launch an experimental space plane known as IXV [Intermediate eXperimental Vehicle].If all goes to plan, the car-sized Intermediate eXperimental Vehicle will be launched from a spaceport in French Guiana on 11...
- Fundamental Particles That Made Universe
Formation of Matter All matter, including the atoms in our bodies, the air we breathe and the gas in the Sun is composed is combinations of fundamental particles that were created during the Big Bang and subsequent evolution of the Universe. Before giving...