MIT physicists predict exotic new phenomena and give "recipe" for realizing them
Wednesday, 22 March 2023 10:59
In work that could lead to important new physics with potentially heady applications in computer science and more, MIT scientists have shown that two previously separate fields in condensed matter physics can be combined to yield new, exotic phenomena.
The work is theoretical, but the researchers are excited about collaborating with experimentalists to realize the predicted phenomena. The ESA’s new headquarters
Wednesday, 22 March 2023 08:30
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After five years of intensive refurbishment works, the Headquarters of the European Space Agency has reopened its doors on rue Mario Nikis in Paris, France. As flexible as it is ultra-modern, ‘ESA HQ Mario Nikis’ is the very embodiment of a European organisation at the cutting edge of high technology and is resolutely open to the city it calls home.
Watch media session from ESA's 315th Council
Wednesday, 22 March 2023 06:49
Join us on 23 March to hear about ambitious new ideas for space exploration from ESA's 315th Council, taking place in the freshly renovated ESA HQ Mario Nikis building in Paris.
Teens send experiments out of this world
Wednesday, 22 March 2023 03:01
From the time she was a child, Anna-Sophia Boguraev has had her eye on space. When she was 4, she built a cardboard rocket ship.
Terran Orbital further expands satellite production facilities
Wednesday, 22 March 2023 02:43
Satellite manufacturer Terran Orbital is planning another expansion of its factory in Southern California to accommodate an anticipated increase in government and commercial orders.
Frontier collects $10 million from AEI HorizonX
Tuesday, 21 March 2023 22:16
Frontier Aerospace raised $10 million in Series A funding from AEI HorizonX.
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NASA seeks student ideas for moon landing dust control
Tuesday, 21 March 2023 20:01
As NASA and industry partners develop new human landing systems to transport astronauts from lunar orbit to the moon's surface and back as part of Artemis, the agency is asking university students to investigate solutions to one particularly dusty aspect of landing spacecraft on the lunar surface.
NASA's new Human Lander Challenge invites college students to explore ways to manage or prevent the cloud of dust a spacecraft stirs up when using rocket engines to land on unprepared surfaces like the moon. This effect is called plume surface interaction and can increase risks caused by lunar dust on future human missions.
"The moon is covered with granular, rocky material called regolith, which can be lifted from the surface by rocket engines during landing and ascent.
U.S. Air Force to test hardware at hypersonic speeds on Varda’s space capsules
Tuesday, 21 March 2023 18:31
The U.S. Air Force plans to use startup Varda Space Industries’ reentry capsules as hypersonic flight test platforms
Ultra-lightweight multifunctional space skin created to withstand the extreme conditions in space
Tuesday, 21 March 2023 17:25
A new nanobarrier coating could help protect ultra-lightweight carbon composite materials from extreme conditions in space, according to a study from the University of Surrey and Airbus Defence and Space.
Amateur astronomers needed: help classify stars with Gaia's data
Tuesday, 21 March 2023 14:00
ESA's Gaia mission has been collecting data on millions of space objects like stars and asteroids to build an extensive cosmic record. Now, to take it up a notch, it needs your eyes.
South Korea’s Innospace succeeds in test launch
Tuesday, 21 March 2023 12:50
South Korean rocket startup Innospace successfully launched a suborbital rocket from Brazil over the weekend, demonstrating a hybrid motor it plans to scale up into a small orbital launch vehicle.
Japanese lander enters lunar orbit
Tuesday, 21 March 2023 11:48
A lunar lander developed by Japanese company ispace has entered orbit around the moon, setting up a lunar landing attempt by the end of April.
On National Security | Space Force and commercial industry taking relationship to the next level
Tuesday, 21 March 2023 11:00
The U.S. Space Force is exploring the creation of a space equivalent of the civil reserve air fleet, or CRAF, a program the Pentagon conceived 70 years ago to gain access to commercial airlift capacity in an emergency.
ESA Impact – March 2023 Council edition
Tuesday, 21 March 2023 09:30
ESA Impact – March 2023 Council edition
Welcome to the March Council edition of ESA Impact, an interactive showcase of the best images and videos since the last Council meeting
Journey through Jezero
Tuesday, 21 March 2023 09:00
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Explore the fascinating landing site of NASA’s Perseverance rover in this fly-through video, featuring new views of Jezero crater and its surroundings from ESA’s Mars Express and NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
The video begins by panning around Jezero crater, which can be seen in the centre background surrounded by textured and cratered terrain. The crater moves into the foreground roughly halfway through, when an outflow channel can be seen snaking away from the crater wall and towards the camera perspective. Two inflow channels (Neretva Vallis and Sava Vallis, found on the western-northwestern rim of Jezero) then become visible;