Astrosat is India's first dedicated astronomy satellite and is scheduled to launch on board the PSLV in 2012. After the success of the satellite-borne Indian X-ray Astronomy Experiment (IXAE), which…
The Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) is an unmanned automatic vehicle sent into orbit by the European Ariane 5 launcher. It provides the International Space Station with: cargo, water, air, nitrogen,…
Aurora Max is a project who shows auroras of Yellowknife (Northwest Territories, Canada). This project allows to amateur astronomers to watch auroras until the solar maximum, in 2013. Aurora Max…
AVATAR (from "Aerobic Vehicle for Hypersonic Aerospace TrAnspoRtation") was a concept development effort for a single-stage reusable spaceplane capable of horizontal takeoff and landing, by India's Defense Research and Development…
The BRRISON mission is an unprecedented rapid response to the opportunity presented by the discovery of comet ISON, providing a new planetary science platform which will fly above 99.5 percent…
The BeiDou Navigation System is a project of China to develop an independent satellite navigation system. It may refer to either one or both generations of the Chinese navigation system.…
BepiColombo is Europe's first mission to Mercury. It will set off in 2015 on a journey to the smallest and least explored terrestrial planet in our Solar System. When it…
BLUEsat, an acronym of Basic Low-Earth-orbit University of NSW Experimental satellite, is a digital amateur radio satellite being designed and built solely by students here at the University of NSW.…
The Boeing 601 satellite is a body-stabilized geostationary satellite. The Boeing 601 was introduced in 1987 to meet anticipated requirements for high-power, multiple-payload satellites for such applications as direct television…
The Boeing 702 satellite is a family of geostationnary satellites designed and manufactured by the company Boeing. Its design requirements include lower cost and high reliability. It offers a broad…
BOINC, the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing is an open source middleware system for volunteer and grid computing. It was originally developed to support the SETI@home project before it…
The Bolshoi simulation is the most accurate cosmological simulation of the evolution of the large-scale structure of the universe yet made. The starting point for Bolshoi was the best ground-…