High-tech skywatching

Robocop in space

New radar launched

Out of this world!

Launching business

Successful launch

Heavenly guide

Sign language from outer space

THE SCIENTIFIC SEARCH FOR EXTRAERRESTRIAL Frank Drake and Dara Sobel Published by Souvenir Press, Pages: 271, Price L16.50

Fresh lease

Triple entry

Cosmic advances

For a better view

Cashing on space

Stink on Mir

Left in the lurch

Insat 2D, India's most advanced communication satellite, has been abandoned

Explosions in outer space

Gamma-ray bursts occur daily and are million times brighter than the galaxy

IN FOCUS

Unlike orbiters

Spy which loves nature

To record environmental trends US spy satellites will now be used for monitoring natural phenomena

All aboard for the Red Planet

Einstein's drag

Two satellites reveal how Earth's rotation warps space-time

Life someplace else?

Evidence of water vapour in the solar system and the possibility of existence of another solar system elsewhere in the Universe has raised …

Stabilising mirrors

Moonflake

Is there anybody out there?