Two hours and 39 minutes later, the first telecommands to Chang’e-1 were transmitted via ESA’s 15m station in Maspalomas, Spain, when the Chinese satellite was nearly 200 000 km from ...

The European Space Agency’s completion of a pair of dedicated ground stations at opposite ends of Europe has enabled Galileo satellites in orbit to participate in global testing of the Cospas–Sarsat ...

The International Space Station, or ISS, is an orbital laboratory and has hosted more than 250 people since 1998.

The mission of the International Space Station is to enable long-term exploration of space and provide benefits to people on Earth. With six state-of-the-art laboratories, the Space Station will ...

The good news is that there’s still an easy way to find out when the ISS is passing overhead. All you need to do is download NASA’s Spot the Station app, which is available on iOS and Android ...