Bolivia’s hypergravity blood cell test for astronaut health
Tuesday, 19 December 2023 10:58
The latest international group to employ ESA’s hypergravity-generating Large Diameter Centrifuge is an all-female team from Bolivia, with access sponsored by the United Nations and ESA. The researchers are investigating whether the high gravity levels experienced during rocket launches might contribute to the anemia afflicting many astronauts in space.
Accurate snow mapping achieved in Switzerland through innovative AI-satellite technology
Tuesday, 19 December 2023 10:53
Switzerland's majestic mountains, a haven for winter sports enthusiasts and a critical area for hydropower generation, are now subject to a novel method of snow depth measurement. This fresh approach, developed by a collaborative effort between ETH Zurich and the Swiss company ExoLabs, utilizes artificial intelligence (AI) and satellite images, marking a significant advancement in environmental China's civil military dual-use space strategy
Tuesday, 19 December 2023 10:53
China has taken another significant step in enhancing its space-based Earth observation (EO) capabilities with the successful launch of the Yaogan-41 satellite. This latest addition to China's satellite constellation was launched from the Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site in Hainan province, marking a continuation of the nation's ambitious foray into space technology.
The mission was execute ESA uses terrestrial rocks to recreate the Moon’s surface
Tuesday, 19 December 2023 09:14
Two state-of-the-art ESA facilities are working closely to develop a simulated lunar environment that will serve as a proving ground for future exploration technologies.
Galactic Chloé - the Gaia mission
Tuesday, 19 December 2023 09:00
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For Gaia’s 10-year anniversary, ESA champion Galactic Chloé and the ESA Gaia team are very happy to collaborate to tell the space mission's story. From paper calculations, to the launch, and to her third data release last year, discover three of the mission's most surprising discoveries and celebrate with us Gaia’s birthday with this video produced by Galactic Studios!
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Boost! graphic Gaia’s decade of discoveries: unravelling the intricacies of our galaxy
Tuesday, 19 December 2023 08:00
Gaia's 10th anniversary
Tuesday, 19 December 2023 08:00
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Ten years ago, on 19 December 2013, ESA’s billion star-mapping satellite Gaia launched. Since then, Gaia has been scanning the sky and gathering an enormous amount of data on the positions and motions of 1.8 billion stars, enabling numerous discoveries about the history of our galaxy.
Gaia’s catalogue is ever-growing containing data on stars and other cosmic objects such as asteroids in our Solar System, exoplanets, binary stars, and other galaxies. The Gaia collaboration, consisting of about 450 people in 25 countries, prepares the data for scientific use. This has resulted in publications of over 10 000 scientific papers
After a 12-day hiatus, launches resume on the Space Coast
Tuesday, 19 December 2023 07:11
2023 has been the busiest year for spaceports around the world. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket successfully launches a batch of Starlink satellites from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida, on December 18 at 11:01 p.m. EST (0401 UTC Dec. 19).
A stormy weather that swept through Florida last week delayed the first launch attempt at the T-1 minute mark due to high ground-level winds, and h 
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Hera’s wings of power After raising $9.5 million, startup OurSky sees strong demand for space data platform
Tuesday, 19 December 2023 03:57
Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin sets new launch attempt for Tuesday
Tuesday, 19 December 2023 03:47
Blue Origin said it would try again on Tuesday to launch a rocket and return to space for the first time in more than a year, after scrubbing a mission for last-minute technical reasons.
Jeff Bezos' space company has not launched a rocket since an uncrewed September 2022 crash placed its program on hold while it carried out fixes and awaited regulatory approval.
The company finally annou Equatorial Launch Australia Unveils Innovative ASC Advanced Launch Pad Designs
Tuesday, 19 December 2023 03:47
Equatorial Launch Australia (ELA) has announced a significant breakthrough in launch pad technology with the completion of its Arnhem Space Centre Advanced Launch Pad (ASCALP) designs. This development marks a pivotal moment in the NewSpace sector, known for its innovative and rapidly evolving approach to space exploration and commercialization.
The ASCALP, hailed as the most advanced laun NASA's Tech Demo Streams First Video From Deep Space via Laser
Tuesday, 19 December 2023 03:47
NASA's Deep Space Optical Communications experiment beamed an ultra-high definition streaming video on Dec. 11 from a record-setting 19 million miles away (31 million kilometers, or about 80 times the Earth-Moon distance). The milestone is part of a NASA technology demonstration aimed at streaming very high-bandwidth video and other data from deep space - enabling future human missions beyond Ea Quantum Leap in secure communication: Teleporting images using light
Tuesday, 19 December 2023 03:47
In a groundbreaking study published in Nature Communications, an international team from Wits University and ICFO- The Institute of Photonic Sciences has unveiled a novel technique for transporting patterns of light, akin to image teleportation, across a network without the physical transmission of the image itself. This research not only challenges our conventional understanding of data transfe