SpaceX launch Wednesday marks record 24th flight of booster
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The power of two: Proba-3
Thursday, 05 December 2024 11:30
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ESA’s eclipse-making Proba-3 double satellite mission has made it to space! Learn more about Proba-3 from the mission team as they bid farewell to their spacecraft, while ESA's Director General Josef Aschbacher wishes the team the best of luck.
The latest member of ESA’s family of in-orbit demonstration missions, Proba-3 is in fact two spacecraft being launched together, which will perform precise formation flying, accurate to a single millimetre, about the thickness of an average fingernail. To prove their performance, Proba-3 has been devoted to an ambitious scientific goal. The pair will line up precisely with the Sun
European mission to imitate solar eclipse launches from India
Thursday, 05 December 2024 11:09
A European mission launched from India on Thursday, aiming to catch a rare glimpse of the Sun's mysterious atmosphere by imitating a solar eclipse using two satellites flying with millimetre-level precision.
The European Space Agency's Proba-3 mission blasted off on a Indian rocket from a launchpad on the island of Sriharikota at around 4:04 pm (1034 GMT), an online broadcast showed.
Aro FibreCoat raises 20m euro to advance coated fiber technology in space and defense sectors
Thursday, 05 December 2024 11:09
FibreCoat, a leading innovator in materials technology, has successfully raised nearly euro 20 million in a Series B funding round. The investment was co-led by NewSpace Capital and Goose Capital, with participation from Nova Saint-Gobain, 212 NexT, Otto Krahn New Business, Convergent Ventures, and TiE.
Founded in Germany in 2020, FibreCoat has developed a pioneering process for coating f India launches European 'artifical eclipse' satellites
Thursday, 05 December 2024 11:09
India on Thursday successfully launched into space a pair of European satellites that will create artificial solar eclipses to help scientists catch a rare glimpse of the Sun's mysterious atmosphere.
Scientists broke into rapturous applause at the Sriharikota launch site as the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) chief announced the spacecraft had been ejected as planned.
"The spac Orbex halts work on own spaceport, shifts launches to SaxaVord
Thursday, 05 December 2024 10:44
PSLV rocket launches Europe’s Proba-3 mission to mimic solar eclipses
Thursday, 05 December 2024 10:07
Proba-3 lift-off replay
Thursday, 05 December 2024 10:00
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ESA’s Proba-3 mission lifted off on its PSLV-XL rocket from Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota, India, on Thursday, 5 December, at 11:34 CET (10:34 GMT, 16:04 local time).
Eclipse-making double satellite Proba-3 enters orbit
Thursday, 05 December 2024 09:56
A pair of spacecraft were launched together today from India with the potential to change the nature of future space missions. ESA’s twin Proba-3 platforms will perform precise formation flying down to a single millimetre, as if they were one single giant spacecraft. To demonstrate their degree of control, the pair will produce artificial solar eclipses in orbit, giving prolonged views of the Sun’s ghostly surrounding atmosphere, the corona.
Bezos not concerned about Musk’s influence on Trump administration
Thursday, 05 December 2024 07:53
Trump names billionaire private astronaut as next NASA chief
Thursday, 05 December 2024 04:53
US President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday nominated Jared Isaacman, a billionaire online payments entrepreneur and the first private astronaut to conduct a spacewalk, as the next head of NASA.
The nod raises questions about potential conflicts of interest, given Isaacman's financial ties to SpaceX chief Elon Musk, who is set to co-lead a government efficiency commission and is one of Trum Liquid on Mars was not necessarily all water
Thursday, 05 December 2024 04:53
Dry river channels and lake beds on Mars point to the long-ago presence of a liquid on the planet's surface, and the minerals observed from orbit and from landers seem to many to prove that the liquid was ordinary water.
Not so fast, the authors of a new Perspectives article in Nature Geoscience suggest. Water is only one of two possible liquids under what are SpaceX sets record launching Falcon 9 first-stage booster 24 times
Thursday, 05 December 2024 04:53
SpaceX set a record for the most launches by a first-stage booster Wednesday morning when one of its Falcon 9 rockets lifted a new round of Starlink satellites into space.
The Cape Canaveral Space Force Staton launch at 5:13 a.m., EDT from Florida was the 24th time the first stage was used. The booster landed safely on the drone ship A Shortfall of Gravitas roughly nine minutes after t Maxar secures $290M 5-year contract with NGA for Luno A
Thursday, 05 December 2024 04:53
Maxar Intelligence has been chosen by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) to support its Luno A program, a $290 million, five-year indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract. This initiative aims to deliver advanced geospatial insights and automated object detections using Maxar's cutting-edge capabilities.
Through the Luno A contract, Maxar will deploy its soph New rocket debuts at Hainan spaceport with advanced design
Thursday, 05 December 2024 04:53
China's space ambitions took another step forward as the Long March 12 rocket completed its inaugural flight Saturday night, launching from the Wenchang Commercial Space Launch Site in Hainan province. The event marked the first mission conducted by the nation's first commercial-dedicated spaceport.
A crowd of onlookers witnessed the late-night liftoff at 10:25 pm, as the rocket ascended f