Microsatellite transmits video from the stratosphere

For the first time an amateur way in Latin America, CETMAR Altata 1 microsatellite, launched from Sinaloa last week, and successfully transmitted live video images from the stratosphere.

The results of this project will be presented at the National Congress of Science and Technology of the Sea, to be held in Tuxpan, Veracruz, from 28 to 30 August next, as well as an International Astronautically Congress in Naples, Italy.

NASA can handle their robots in 3D

NASA today unveils an application to learn how to handle some of their robots in 3D, as "Curiosity", which will land on Mars on 6 August.

The application is available for free for iPhone and iPad.

"Spacecraft 3D" uses animations to show how they can maneuver and manipulate the external components of the ship.

ESA alarmed about the environmental impact of space debris

The European Space Agency (ESA) said today that the possibility that a ship be stranded in orbit after colliding with a piece of space debris, as shown in "Gravity", the next film by Alfonso Cuaron, "might happen" if waste levels continue to rise.

The ESA said in a statement that the over six thousand satellites launched since the beginning of the space age, less than a thousand remain operational while the rest have re-entered the atmosphere or in orbit is abandoned.