The Chandra X-Ray Observatory: Still the Greatest
This time we’re going to look back at one of NASA’s most spectacular successes: the Chandra X-Ray Observatory. Launched by the space shuttle on July 23, 1999, Chandra has now…
The Planck Space Observatory Is Watching the Universe Being Born
In most of our articles, we have looked at the worlds in our own solar system, or orbiting relatively nearby stars. There’s so much going on in our neighborhood, it’s…
ESA Launches Cryosat-2 on a Mission to Study Earth’s Ice
The European Space Agency launched its CryoSat-2 satellite today (April 8, 2010), thus completing the third phase of its Earth Explorer Series. The satellite will give us our best picture…
ESA’s Cassini-Huygens Mission Probes the Saturn System
The Cassini-Huygens Saturn mission, a joint effort by NASA, the European Space Agency and Italy’s Agenzia Spaziale Italiana, is one of the most successful and long-lasting space projects ever launched.…
France’s COROT Satellite Is a New Kind of Space Telescope
This is the second article in our examination of the newly-emerging science of exoplanet detection and study. Last week, we took a look at NASA’s Kepler telescope, which recently completed…
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