Tag Archives: European space agency

Japanese Cargo Craft Launches to ISS

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Ever since the failure of SpaceX's failure in June in resupplying the astronauts at the International Space Station, the space agencies have been hoping for a successful mission. The Falcon 9 rocket...

Snow Cleaning used for Webb Space Telescope Mirrors

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The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), is a space observatory under construction by NASA with its partners, the European Space Agency and the Canadian Space Agency and scheduled to launch in October...

Hubble Space Telescope celebrates 25th Anniversary

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The Hubble Space Telescope has been in existence for a quarter of a century during which beautiful colored pictures of the far off recesses of the universe have been released for public consumption....

NASA’s Hubble spots Phantom Things near Dead Qausars

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The NASA Goddard Space Flight Center revealed new images taken by the Hubble space telescope. The goblin-green glowing objects are the ephemeral ghosts of quasars that flickered to life and then...

Scott Kelly and Mikhail Kornienko will spend One Year in Space

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Today the two men launched into space to begin an adventure no human has done before. NASA astronaut Scott Kelly and Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko are on their...

Beagle 2 Mars Lander has been Found

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11 years ago the UK Mars Lander Beagle 2 went missing. Today the UK Space Agency announced that Beagle 2 has been found on the Mars surface. Beagle 2 has partially deployed on the Mars surface. The...

William Shatner checking in with space agencies on Twitter

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William Shatner, popularly known as Capt. James T. Kirk from "Star Trek”, doesn’t seem to have given up on his space fantasy and we don’t need to explain why some people say that old habits die hard...