The 33-year odyssey of NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft has reached a distant point at the edge of our solar system where there is no outward motion of solar wind.

The Venus Orbviter Akatsuki, taht should have entered orbit this tuesday, missed the orbit while in safe-mode. It is now heading for the Sun, where it will burn up as a small man-made comet

Dec. 6 NASA for the first time successfully ejected a nanosatellite from a free-flying microsatellite; The NanoSail-D ejected from the FASTSAT, demonstrating the capability to deploy a small cubesat payload from an autonomous microsatellite in space.

The Japanese Planet-C Venus Climate Orbiter taht was launched by Japan in May, has arrived at Venus, but has experienced problems during the orbit-insertion