To widen path to outer space, UF engineers build small satellite

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Nov 13, 2008 | 4 / 5 (2) | 0

It's not much bigger than a softball and weighs just 2 pounds. But the "pico satellite" being designed and built in a University of Florida aerospace engineering laboratory may hold a key to a future of easy access to outer ...

Galileo satellite platform tests under way

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Dec 03, 2009 | 4 / 5 (2) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The engineering model of the first Galileo satellites has completed platform integration tests at the Thales Alenia Space facility in Rome. The platform is now undergoing functional testing. ...

NASA, M2MI work on satellite development

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Apr 28, 2008 | 5 / 5 (2) | 0

The U.S. space agency says it and the Machine to Machine Corp. have signed an agreement to make "nanosats" to improve space telecommunications.

Single rocket to carry 6 'private' satellites

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Jan 19, 2009 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0

An H-2A rocket carrying six small satellites developed by universities and private-sector companies will be launched Wednesday from Tanegashima Space Center in Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan.

Proba-2's journey to Russia marks its first step towards space

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Jul 06, 2009 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Proba-2, one of the smallest satellites ESA has ever built for space, is about to leave its Belgian homeland. Its development and testing complete, the satellite is being packed up for the ...

Boeing launches second COSMO satellite

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Dec 11, 2007 | 4 / 5 (1) | 0

The Boeing Co. announced the successful U.S. launch of the second of four Italian COSMO satellites.

University of Texas 'Picosatellite' to be launched from space shuttle to begin milestone mission

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Jun 09, 2009 | 4 / 5 (1) | 0

In an initial step toward the first successful rendezvous and docking of very small satellites without human control, a pair of miniature "picosatellites" built by University of Texas at Austin and Texas A&M ...

Ariane 5 - First launch of 2009

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Feb 13, 2009 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Yesterday evening, an Ariane 5 ECA launcher lifted off from Europe’s Spaceport at Kourou, in French Guiana, on its mission to place two multi-role telecommunications satellites into geostationary ...

Plutoid chosen as name for solar system objects like Pluto

Space & Earth / Astronomy

Jun 11, 2008 | 3.9 / 5 (10) | 0

Almost two years after the International Astronomical Union (IAU) General Assembly introduced the category of dwarf planets, the IAU, as promised, has decided on a name for transneptunian dwarf planets similar ...

Final look at ESA's SMOS and Proba-2 satellites

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Oct 21, 2009 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0

As preparations for the launch of SMOS and Proba-2 continue on schedule, the engineers and technicians at the Russian launch site say goodbye as both satellites are encapsulated within the half-shells of the ...

The Aerospace Corporation nanosatellite tests the latest generation of solar cells

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Jun 03, 2009 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0

Scientists at The Aerospace Corporation are analyzing data received from a 6.4 kg nanosatellite they developed to test a new generation of solar cells.

Swerve left to avoid that satellite

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

Jul 09, 2008 | 4.3 / 5 (4) | 0

Think you have trouble getting rid of the clutter in your living room? After more than 50 years of launching rockets and satellites into space, the human race now has to deal with the clutter left behind -- or is it "above"? ...

Space radar techniques for land mapping

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

Jul 17, 2009 | 4 / 5 (1) | 1

Entrepreneurs at ESA’s Business Incubation centre in the Netherlands have used radar technology from the agency’s Envisat remote-sensing satellite to develop a compact, high-resolution radar that can monitor ...

Double Star TC-1 completes its mission

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Oct 16, 2007 | 4.3 / 5 (4) | 0

TC-1, one of the two satellites of the CNSA/ESA Double Star mission, was decommissioned on 14 October as its designed orbit lifetime came to an end. The satellite re-entered Earth’s atmosphere and turned to ...

NASA satellites make a movie and get rainfall, wind info on Ida (w/ Video)

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

Nov 09, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

NASA satellites are amazing examples of technology. The TRMM satellite peers into tropical cyclones and can tell how much rain is falling per hour and where. QuikScat uses microwave technology to measure Ida's ...