The space tardigrades have been listed Number 1 on "Top 10 Things Launched into Space in 2008" at Wired Science http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/01/top-10-things-l.html . The tiny tardigra...
http://tardigradesinspace.blogspot.com/2009/01/tardigrades-no-1-at-wired-science.html
At last, the first results from the TARDIS experiment have been published! Thank you all for waiting patiently during the analysing and publishing process! Many of you have probably read already ...
http://tardigradesinspace.blogspot.com/2008/09/space-tardigrades-stood-test.html
Although I knew that many people find tardigrades very interesting I must admit that I did not expect such an interest in the TARDIS project! Information about the TARDIS project has been broadca...
http://tardigradesinspace.blogspot.com/2007/11/tardigrades-at-public-focus.html
The hardware with TARDIS samples has now been returned to the Swedish laboratory. No damage could be observed so the hardware part of the experiment worked fine. The software part, i.e. the tardi...
http://tardigradesinspace.blogspot.com/2007/10/space-tardigrades-ready-for-analyses.html
This morning, at 9:58 CEST (Central European Summer Time), the FOTON-M3 capsule carrying the TARDIS hardware landed as expected in Kazakhstan, near the Russian border. Apparently, everything went...
http://tardigradesinspace.blogspot.com/2007/09/tardigrades-are-back-on-earth.html
Today I learned that the position of the FOTON-M3 satellite can actually be viewed in real time. So if you happens to be at a location where it passes during the night, and if the sky is clear, d...
http://tardigradesinspace.blogspot.com/2007/09/view-satellite-carrying-tardis-on-web.html
Last Friday, the FOTON-M3 satelite was successfully sent into orbit, and the Biopan-6 platform was opened, exposing tardigrades of the TARDIS experiment to open space. The satelite will now or...
http://tardigradesinspace.blogspot.com/2007/09/last-friday-foton-m3-satelite-was.html
Yesterday, 6 September, the TARDIS hardware with samples were delivered to the European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC) south of Amsterdam. Integration of all scientific hardware...
http://tardigradesinspace.blogspot.com/2007/09/tardigrade-samples-delivered-to-esa-for.html