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The solar cycle, a heartbeat of stellar energy
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The Sun follows a roughly 11-year rhythm of waking up and becoming very active before calming down again, a stellar beat known as the solar cycle. This affects Earth because it shapes space weather, determining how much radiation, magnetic field and particles the Sun flings out into space and towards our planet.
Hera burns towards Mars
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ESA’s Hera mission has completed the first critical manoeuvre on its journey to the Didymos binary asteroid system since launch on 7 October.
A space walking robot could build a giant telescope in space
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Image: Astronaut captures photo of Earth from the International Space Station
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Proba-3 will constantly measure Sun’s energy output
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Proba-3 is such an ambitious mission that it needs more than one single spacecraft to succeed. In order for Proba-3’s Coronagraph spacecraft observe the Sun’s faint surrounding atmosphere, its disk-bearing Occulter spacecraft must block out the fiery solar disk. This means Proba-3’s Occulter ends up facing the Sun continuously, making it a valuable platform for science in its own right.
Meet ESA’s SME Office at Space Tech Expo 2024
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Space startups and SMEs can meet ESA’s SME Office at Space Tech Expo, a space technology trade fair and conference in Bremen, Germany from 19–21 November.
Snow returns to Mount Fuji
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Snow returns to Mount Fuji Satellite imagery offers a way to shield coastal forests from climate impacts
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Rising sea levels driven by climate change threaten coastal forests with unpredictable consequences, highlighting the need for advanced tools to manage these vulnerable ecosystems and allocate conservation efforts effectively.
In a recent study by North Carolina State University and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), researchers explored how satellite imagery could help conservationists id 30 Years On, NASA's Wind Is a Windfall for Studying our Neighborhood in Space
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Picture it: 1994. The first World Wide Web conference took place in Geneva, the first Chunnel train traveled under the English Channel, and just three years after the end of the Cold War, the first Russian instrument on a U.S. spacecraft launched into deep space from Cape Canaveral. The mission to study the solar wind, aptly named Wind, held promise for heliophysicists and astrophysicists around UK MoD contracts SSTL for JUNO satellite
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Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) has finalized a contract with the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) to build and supply an Earth Observation satellite, bolstering the UK's defense and technological capabilities in space.
This GBP 40 million project aims to equip the UK's armed forces with advanced space-based intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) tools for global military