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.

Astronomers first observed dark galaxies in the early universe

Astronomers has observed first dark galaxy, an early stage of galaxy formation, said the European Southern Observatory (ESO) from its headquarters in the German city of Garching, to the south.

Scientists used the long-range telescope (VLT, for its acronym in English) Cerro Paranal Observatory in Chile, which managed to detect these gas-rich galaxies that do not contain stars, noting its brightness when illuminated by light of a quasar.

Amateur first microsatellite launched in Latin America educational

Students of the Centre for Marine Technology (CETMAR) Altata 1 microsatellite launched the first amateur education in Latin America, attaining a height of 120 000 feet (36 thousand 576 meters).

The microsatellite consists of a capsule semihermética thermally insulated, equipped with onboard video cameras and photographic HD, equipped with special batteries, radio transmitters, audio and video.

Successfully takes off Meteosat-10

The European satellite is designed to try to improve weather forecasting.

The third satellite Meteosat Second Generation (MSG-3), the tenth of the Meteosat family, today successfully took off from Europe's Spaceport in Kourou (French Guiana).

The European satellite is designed to try to improve weather forecasts and was launched with an Ariane 5 rocket, also carrying a telecommunications satellite for internet services, the EchoStar 17, with coverage in North America.

An Ariane 5 launches two satellites from Kourou

The Ariane was  launched with a gross  weight take-off of more than 9.5 tons. AP

This is 49 consecutive successful launch of Ariane.

It was launched with the mission of putting into orbit two satellites transfer gestational the weather observation.

Two satellites, EchoStar seventeenth and MSG-3, were successfully put into geostationary transfer orbit by an Ariane 5 rocket that took off Thursday night from the Kourou base, 

Mars Express reveals complex geological history of Mars

The probe photographed last April Melas Dorsa, a volcanic region south of Valles Marineris canyon.

Captured wrinkle ridges, some faults that cross and surrounded by an elliptical crater ejects butterfly-shaped, with the appearance of being liquid.