Science news articles about 'space centre'

  • AMS experiment takes off for Kennedy Space Centre

    ... ), an experiment that will search for antimatter and dark matter in space, leaves CERN next Tuesday on the next ... from Switzerland on 26 August, when it will be flown to the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida on board a US Air ...
  • Vega main engine test in Kourou

    ... of ESA's new small launcher - Vega, was successfully tested on 4 December at the Guiana Space Centre, Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French ...
  • Searching the heavens

    ... for the GLAST mission from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Centre in Greenbelt, Maryland, USA, in this month ... Ritz and Neil Gehrels of NASA’s Goddard Space Centre, write, “We expect GLAST to have a large ...
  • Your name can travel into space with a new NASA mission

    ... to submit their name to be included on a DVD and rocketed into space as part of NASA's Kepler Mission, scheduled to launch in February 2009 from NASA's Kennedy Space Centre, Florida ...
  • Scientists endure Arctic for last campaign prior to CryoSat-2 launch

    ... ice", says Rene Forsberg from the Danish National Space Centre who is responsible for the airborne programme. "In two ... and ice properties on the CryoSat-2 measurements from space." Already halfway through the campaign, a huge ...
  • Successful Ariane 5 solid rocket booster test firing

    ... rocket booster took place at the Guiana Space Centre in Kourou, French Guiana. The test was part of the Ariane 5 Research and Technology Accompaniment ...
  • Two Russian cosmonauts make new space walk

    Two Russian cosmonauts on board the International Space Station made a new space walk to finish off work begun during an earlier operation last week, the Russian space centre said.
  • GOCE Earth explorer satellite to look at the Earth's surface and core

    ... , a joint venture between EADS Astrium and the Khrunichev Space Centre (Russia). ESA's 1-tonne ... European companies led by Thales Alenia Space) and the science community had to overcome an impressive technical ...
  • Last-ever look at ESA's gravity satellite GOCE

    ... run of the countdown itself with the Mission Control Centre at the Plesetsk Cosmodrome, ESA's Spacecraft Operations ... , a joint venture between EADS Astrium and the Khrunichev Space Centre (Russia). The sleek high-tech ...
  • Emergency support for Jules Verne ATV successfully given by Artemis

    Artemis, ESA's data relay satellite, successfully answered the call for emergency services from the ATV Control Centre due to anticipated outages at the NASA Space Centre in Houston, Texas.
  • German spectrometer flies to the Moon

    ... `s first mission to the Moon, Chandrayaan-1, is scheduled to take off from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre on the south-eastern coast of India ...
  • Interview: UK science minister Lord Drayson

    ... family holiday to the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida that the new science minister, Lord Drayson, really understood the power that astronauts ...
  • Satellites helping aid workers in Honduras

    ... of the area to emergency response teams. The reaction by the space community to the impact of Mitch is considered a precursor ... Exploration Agency (JAXA), the British National Space Centre/Disaster Monitoring Constellation (BNSC ...
  • Chandrayaan-1 now in lunar orbit

    ... was executed from the Chandrayaan-1 Spacecraft Control Centre at ISRO's Telemetry, Tracking and Command Network ... October by from India's spaceport at Satish Dhawan Space Centre SHAR, Sriharikota. The launcher placed ...
  • Minister calls for UK space facility

    ... Drayson called today for a major new space facility to be built in Britain in a speech to the European ... (Esa).Government officials are drawing up plans for a space centre that will focus on observing climate change ...

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