STATION NEWS - RADAR DAILY

Mar 23, 2012 (ESA)

ESA's third Automated Transfer Vehicle, Edoardo Amaldi, is ready for launch to the International Space Station. ESA's formal Launch Readiness Review on Monday r...

Astrium: double delivery for ATV-3 Edoardo Amaldi launch

Mar 21, 2012 (SPX)

Astrium, Europe's leading space company, is completing the mission preparation for the Automated Transfer Vehicle ATV-3. On March 23, 2012, the unmanned cargo r...

Russia to launch new ISS module in 2013 as scheduled

Mar 20, 2012 (XNA)

Russia's federal space agency Roscosmos denied reports Friday of a delay to the launch of the new multi-purpose Nauka lab for the International Space Station (I...

DARPA Makes Room On ISS For Programmers

Mar 16, 2012 (SPX)

Students, professionals, public sought to create algorithm enabling capture of objects in space. The absence of gravity presents a significant challenge for pre...

Though Shuttle Retired, ISS Still Open For Business, Research Going Strong

Mar 07, 2012 (SPX)

The pace of research aboard the International Space Station is accelerating, even though the space shuttles used to build it have been retired. The shuttles' hu...

ISS Plays Role in Vaccine Development

Mar 07, 2012 (SPX)

Have you ever been afflicted with a case of food poisoning so awful it made you stop to wonder why no one's found a cure or sure-fire preventative for it yet? A...

New date set for Europe's resupply mission to ISS

Mar 05, 2012 (AFP)

Flight controllers have set March 23 for the launch of a European supply ship to the International Space Station (ISS), the European Space Agency told AFP on Mo...

Harper Government renews commitment to ISS

Mar 05, 2012 (SPX)

The Honourable Christian Paradis, Minister of Industry and Minister responsible for the Canadian Space Agency, has announced Canada's intention to renew its com...

A New Website Sharing ISS Benefits For Humanity

Mar 05, 2012 (SPX)

When the International Space Station was first imagined, the idea was to create an unprecedented research platform to support microgravity investigations for th...

ISS Orbit Adjusted for Docking

Mar 02, 2012 (RIA Novosti)

The orbit of the International Space Station (ISS) will be raised by 2.1 kilometers (1.3 miles) on Wednesday to ensure the best conditions for the docking of Ru...

Andre On A PromISSe For Extended Space Station Mission

Mar 02, 2012 (ESA)

ESA astronaut Andre Kuipers will stay on the International Space Station for more than a month longer than originally planned. In addition to his normal routine...

ATV-3 set to provide ESA's annual service to ISS

Mar 02, 2012 (ESA)

ESA's third Automated Transfer Vehicle cargo ferry, Edoardo Amaldi, is ready for launch on an Ariane 5 to the International Space Station on 9 March from Europe...

Laptop theft did not put space station in peril: NASA

Mar 02, 2012 (AFP)

A stolen US space agency laptop containing codes that control the International Space Station did not put the orbiting lab in peril, a NASA spokesman said on Fr...

Dual - Mode Space Activities

Feb 29, 2012 (SPX)

In recent years there has been a good deal of discussion about commercialization of space and the involvement of NASA in the process. In fact, NASA has been sup...

Fifth ATV named after Georges Lemaitre

Feb 20, 2012 (SPX)

ESA's Automated Transfer Vehicles (ATVs) are an essential contribution by Europe to running the International Space Station. Naming the fifth after Belgian scie...

Space station panel installation delayed

Feb 17, 2012 (UPI)

Two Russian cosmonauts will have to install International Space Station debris panels another day after their spacewalk took longer than expected, NASA said. Sp...

Russian cosmonauts begin ISS spacewalk

Feb 16, 2012 (AFP)

Two Russian cosmonauts stepped out of the International Space Station on Thursday in a spacewalk due to last six hours, Russia's mission control centre said. Ol...

Advanced Communications Testbed for Space Station

Feb 15, 2012 (JPL)

New and improved ways for future space travelers to communicate will be tested on the International Space Station. The SCaN Testbed, or Space Communications and...

Europe's ATV space ferry set for launch to Space Station

Feb 14, 2012 (ESA)

Fuel, water, oxygen, air and most of the dry cargo have been loaded into ESA's third Automated Transfer Vehicle, Edoardo Amaldi, as the 9 March liftoff approach...

Unique Testbed Soon Will Be in Space

Feb 13, 2012 (SPX)

New and improved ways for future space travelers to communicate will be tested on the International Space Station after a launch later this year from Japan. The...