Space Exploration News

Sep 5, 2011 by News Staff

Mars Express has spotted a rare case of a crater once filled by a lake, revealed by the presence of a delta. This delta is an ancient fan-shaped deposit of dark sediments, laid down in water. It is a reminder of Mars’ past, wetter climate. The delta is in the Eberswalde crater, in the southern highlands of Mars. The 65 km-diameter crater is visible as a semi-circle on the right of the image and was formed more than 3.7 billion years ago when an...

Aug 25, 2011 by News Staff

NASA has selected three proposals as Technology Demonstration Missions to transform space communications, deep space navigation and in-space propulsion...

Aug 17, 2011 by News Staff

Heads of Roscosmos and the European Space Agency discussed future manned mission to Mars at Air Show MAKS-2011, was announced on Wednesday, August 17,2011. ‘Flight...

Aug 15, 2011 by News Staff

‘Fobos-Grunt spacecraft has been compiled and sent to the vibration test. A couple of weeks it will be shaken to simulate extreme space conditions’,...

Aug 11, 2011 by News Staff

Russia will spend about $ 1 billion for the construction of the Vostochny Cosmodrome in the Amur region, said Vladimir Popovkin, the head of Roskosmos,...

Aug 10, 2011 by News Staff

After a journey of almost three years, NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has reached the Red Planet’s Endeavour crater to study rocks...