E-letter: Curated Content

Using the Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) on the Japanese ALOS satellite, scientists observe how Earth deforms before a volcano eruption.

Convergence Partners and the Consortium of South African investors it led have exited the New Dawn satellite venture.

United Launch Alliance, in partnership with Boeing, is expected to officially announce Hensel Phelps Construction Co. to redesign pad 41.

SpaceX reusable vertical takeoff and landing rocket "Grasshopper" took its second test flight.

NASA and the U.S. Air Force's Space and Missile Systems Center are developing a satellite to perform a hypervelocity impact experiment to examine space debris.

Austria will launch its first satellite in December with the objective of studying the nature of stars.

SpaceX has successfully completed the first three performance milestones toward sending passengers in its spacecraft.

SUPARCO will have an operational constellation of navigation satellites orbiting Earths starting June 2013

ESA's study from its Cluster satellite mission indicates that the magnetic field that protects life on Earth from the Sun's excess radiation frequently experiences harmful breaches.

ISRO's OSCAT radar scatterometer has been critical in helping track superstorm Sandy