Enjoy Space : Portfolios

Rosetta: heading for a comet

In 2014, after navigating through the solar system, the European probe will finally arrive at its destination - a comet.
Hayabusa’s odyssey

By releasing a sample return capsule on 13 June 2010, the Japanese probe brought a mission that was believed lost on many occasions to a successful end.
World Cup stadiums

Starting on 11 June 2010, the 19th FIFA Football World Cup is to take place in ten of South Africa’s stadiums. Leader in the field of space imagery, the French company Spot Image can show us them all from space!
Soichi Noguchi’s photographs

Japanese Soichi Noguchi sent numerous superb photographs to his Twitter account from the International Space Station. Here is a small selection of his most recent ones.
STS-132: the last Atlantis

This flight to the International Space Station from 14 to 26 May 2010 marked the ultimate orbital journey for the space shuttle Atlantis.
Eyjafjöll from space

Made famous by the consequences of its smoke plume as regards air transportation, the Icelandic volcano is being monitored by satellites.
Hubble is 20 years old

With 6 space shuttle missions, more than 110,000 orbits and 930,000 observations to its credit, the space telescope is celebrating 20 years of work at the service of astronomy.

So where are the extraterrestrial beings?

Not so very long ago, astronomers were theorising about life on practically every planet in the solar system whereas today the Earth is sometimes envisaged as the only haven for living beings... have the extraterrestrial beings disappeared in-between times?
The rapid growth of New Space

For several years, entrepreneurs have been aspiring to develop a new approach to the space industry and targeting a reduction in launch costs. Is the private sector going to revolutionise human space flight?
Avatar’s Venture Star

The spaceship from James Cameron’s film is far less fanciful than it appears and even plausibly deals with several problems posed by interstellar travel.