
Copernical Team
Demonstrating connectivity’s latest technologies

A satellite has been launched that will demonstrate the latest technologies for connectivity and for Earth observation. The ALISIO-1 satellite was developed under an ESA Pioneer Partnership Project with satellite manufacturer and operator Open Cosmos, based at Harwell in the UK.
Geminids meteor shower peaks this week under dark skies

Clean water for space and Earth

Access to clean water is essential for humans. ESA astronaut Andreas Mogensen is helping to understand how to do it efficiently and at larger scales by testing water filtration membranes on the International Space Station as part of his Huginn mission.
Webb identifies tiniest free-floating brown dwarf

Discovery helps answer the question: How small can you go when forming stars?
Brown dwarfs are sometimes called failed stars, since they form like stars through gravitational collapse, but never gain enough mass to ignite nuclear fusion. The smallest brown dwarfs can overlap in mass with giant planets. In a quest to find the smallest brown dwarf, astronomers using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope have found the new record-holder: an object weighing just three to four times the mass of Jupiter.
HyImpulse hybrid rocket motor test

Testing the 75kN hybrid rocket motor made by HyImpulse at German Aerospace Center, DLR’s Lampoldshausen facility in Germany, based on a low-cost hybrid propulsion technology. The rocket motor uses "space-grade candle wax" and liquid oxygen as propellants.
HyImpulse Technologies, based in Neuenstadt am Kocher in Southern Germany is developing a three-stage small launcher. Their three-stage launch vehicle, called SL1, will also be powered by green hybrid propulsion technology, using liquid oxygen and paraffin as propellants. The lightweight rocket is designed to launch small satellites up to 500 kg out to low-Earth orbit.
HyImpulse technologies was one of the first
Particle physicists put forward research priorities for coming decade

NASA Sensor Produces First Global Maps of Surface Minerals in Arid Regions

New project will take a step towards answering whether gravity is quantum

Iota Technology Partners with AAC Clyde Space for Earth Magnetic Field Mission

Launch of secret Space Force orbital platform targets Wednesday evening
