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World news about “Space technology” published by euronews.

  • The ISS crew enters the Dragon cargo craft

    NASA astronaut Don Pettit and International Space Station Commander Oleg Kononenko of Russia open the hatch of the SpaceX Dragon commercial cargo craft… 26/05/2012

  • Global watchdog at risk

    Europe has adopted an extensive monitoring program to keep tabs on the environment whilst keeping us safe; it is called GMES, or Global Monitoring for… 26/04/2012

  • Evergreen Soyuz takes off from the Tropics

    It took Gagarin and Sputnik into space, and has flown safely over 1700 times: Soyuz is over 60 years old, but it begins a new tropical chapter this autumn… 21/10/2011

  • New detection system cuts threat from space junk

    Australian scientists have developed a laser system that can detect tiny pieces of space debris. The tens of thousands of pieces of junk that orbit the earth… 14/09/2011

  • New Russian space telescope goes into orbit

    A new ultra-powerful Russian space telescope has been launched into orbit by a rocket that blasted off from Kazakhstan on the 18th of July. The 3.8 tonne… 21/07/2011

  • Last launch of US Space shuttle Atlantis

    Freddy Porter, 5, plays with a toy space shuttle in the Rocket Garden of the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex, near Cape Canaveral in Florida. Space… 08/07/2011

  • Space Shuttle – the last voyage

    A chapter in the history of space has ended with the launch of the American Shuttle Atlantis which marks the retirement of the Space Shuttle. It’s a chapter… 05/07/2011

  • Earth’s antimatter hunter takes flight

    Its real name is AMS-2 or Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer. Its job? Antimatter hunter. From May 2011 it will fly around 400 km above our heads in… 27/04/2011

  • Endeavour ends its career on a high

    The last Endeavour mission before its retirement is one of the most ambitious scientific searches ever attempted in Space: to track antimatter and dark matter… 27/04/2011

  • Satellites and planes: belt-up, take-off, log-in

    Surfing the internet at 10,000 metres, or landing a plane in zero visibility – it is all possible thanks to an increasing role being played in aviation by… 27/04/2011

  • Shuttle makes final flight to New York

    The Enterprise took to the skies for the last time over America today as the retired space shuttle was carried from Dulles airport in Virginia to New York… 27/04/2012

  • Discovery officially handed over to new home

    The retired space shuttle Discovery has been officially handed over to the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in the US, during a ceremony attended by… 20/04/2012

  • Time for the close-up – Dawn images of Vesta asteroid

    NASA’s Dawn spacecraft has sent the closest images it will take of the Vesta asteroid. The pictures were snapped less than 210 kilometres from the… 22/12/2011

  • Life on Mars probe launched

    A rocket has blasted-off from Cape Canaveral in Florida carrying a new space probe on a nine-month journey to Mars.    ‘Curiosity’, as it has been nicknamed… 27/11/2011

  • Life on Mars

    Space agency NASA is launching a nuclear-powered probe on a nine-month journey to Mars in a bid to learn if there is or ever was life on the planet. The… 26/11/2011

  • Success as China passes its first space docking test

    China has successfully carried out its first docking exercise between two unmanned spacecraft.The Shenzhou-8 joined the Tiangong-1space lab module 350… 03/11/2011

  • China hopes Shenzhou 8 will aid space lab project

    The blast-off marked a successful launch for China in a mission that will test its bid to become a major power in space. The unmanned Shenzhou 8 craft was… 01/11/2011

  • A boost to China’s space ambitions

    It is being described as a major test of China’s ability to gain a long-term foothold in space. The unmanned Shenzhou 8 spacecraft has blasted off from… 01/11/2011

  • Galileo ‘will complement, not compete with GPS’

    Paid for entirely by the European Commission – the price tag is currently around five billion euros, Galileo should provide better coverage and greater… 21/10/2011

  • Soyuz carries Galileo into space

    A Russian Soyuz rocket has launched from French Guiana, carrying the first of Europe’s two Galileo satellites. The launch from Europe’s space base in South… 21/10/2011

  • Defunct satellite set to hit earth in hours

    Nasa officials said on Saturday the defunct satellite which is due to come crashing down to earth would land in the next few hours. The satellite was… 24/09/2011

  • Deadline for satellite re-entry looms

    Scientists said on Thursday they won’t know until about two hours before a defunct NASA satellite re-enters the earth’s atmosphere, where it will likely… 23/09/2011

  • Shuttle Endeavour completes its final flight

    The US space shuttle Endeavour has safely landed after its final flight. The ship touched down at its Florida home base in the early hours, completing its… 01/06/2011


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