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April 17, 2009

NASA's Kepler Captures First Views Of Planet-Hunting Territory

Mission Will Search For Earth-like Worlds

NASA's Kepler mission has taken its first images of the star-rich sky where it will soon begin hunting for planets like Earth. The new "first light" images show the mission's target patch of sky, a vast starry field in the Cygnus-Lyra region of our Milky Way galaxy. One image shows millions of stars in Kepler's full field of view, while two others zoom in on portions of the larger region.

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SpaceX Signs Argentina's Space Agency For Two Falcon 9 Launches

Pair Of SAOCOM Earth Observation Satellites To Fly 2012-2013

Space Exploration Technologies tells ANN the company has signed an agreement with CONAE, Argentina's National Commission on Space Activity, for two launches aboard SpaceX's Falcon 9 medium-to-heavy lift vehicle.

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