China is working on a design for a reusable air-launched orbital rocket
Thursday, 30 November 2023 09:49
Navigation and telecommunications testbed vehicles at ESTEC
Thursday, 30 November 2023 08:52
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Navigation vans Taking climate action with Earth observation
Thursday, 30 November 2023 08:10
As global temperatures records are smashed and greenhouse gas emissions reach new highs, a new report from the UN Environment Programme finds that current pledges under the Paris Agreement put the world on track for a 2.5–2.9°C temperature rise this century – pointing to the urgent need for increased climate action.
The report is timely as nearly 200 nations gather in the coming two weeks at the United Nations COP28 Climate Change Summit to conclude the world’s first ever ‘Global Stocktake’ on climate change. Swift and sustained climate action is needed to avoid the worst
Ariane 6 media briefing – November 2023
Thursday, 30 November 2023 08:00
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Watch the replay of the media briefing on Ariane 6 during which ESA Director General Josef Aschbacher outlines the progress achieved after the successful hot firing test on 23 November 2023 at Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana, as well as the upcoming steps in the Ariane 6 development test campaign, including ESA, CNES and ArianeGroup targeting the first launch of Ariane 6 between mid June and end of July 2024. Participants also includes Martin Sion, CEO, ArianeGroup ; Philippe Baptiste, President of CNES and Stéphane Israël, CEO, Arianespace.
Navigation and telecommunications testbed vehicles
Thursday, 30 November 2023 07:18
ESA’s navigation and telecommunications testbed vehicles are custom-built mobile test platforms operated by ESA’s Navigation Laboratory to support test campaigns for navigation and telecommunications services, most notably Europe’s Galileo constellation. Testing in the field provides a unique opportunity to complement laboratory tests, verifying the system’s performance from a user perspective in a more dynamic and realistic setting.
After 50 years, US to return to Moon on January 25
Thursday, 30 November 2023 04:50
More than 50 years after the last Apollo mission, the United States will try once again to land a craft on the Moon on January 25, said the head of what could be the first private company to successfully touch down on the lunar surface.
The lander, named Peregrine, will have no one on board. It was developed by American company Astrobotic, whose CEO John Thornton said it will carry NASA ins Was There Life on Mars
Thursday, 30 November 2023 04:50
Astrobiology is the study of the origin, evolution, and distribution of life in the Universe, and searching for life on Mars is a major goal of the Mars 2020 mission. While humans have long wondered whether there are others like us, it's only been a few decades since we've developed the technologies to search for life beyond Earth in earnest.
With space-based telescopes like James Webb, as Satellite discovered by NASA's Lucy mission gets name
Thursday, 30 November 2023 04:50
The satellite discovered during the first asteroid encounter of NASA's Lucy mission has an official name. On Nov. 27, 2023, the International Astronomical Union approved the name "Selam", which means "peace" in the Ethiopian language Amharic, for Dinkinesh's moon.
"Dinkinesh is the Ethiopian name for the fossil nicknamed 'Lucy,'", says Raphael Marshall of the Observatoire de la Cote d'Azur U.S. and Saudi Arabia explore space for peaceful purposes
Thursday, 30 November 2023 04:50
The United States and Saudi Arabia have announced intentions to explore the use of outer space together in pursuit of peaceful purposes, the U.S. State Dept. announced Tuesday.
The agreement is an extension of the Jeddah Communique, a document outlining the strategic partnership between the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the United States signed by King Salman Bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud and Pre NASA, small companies eye new cargo delivery, heat shield technologies
Thursday, 30 November 2023 04:50
Two small businesses are benefitting from NASA's expertise as they develop heat shield technologies, cargo delivery systems, and new protective materials for spacecraft and space stations in the growing commercial industry of low Earth orbit operations.
The two American companies - Canopy Aerospace Inc. of Littleton, Colorado and Outpost Technologies Corp. of Santa Monica, California - rec Evolving material, not rings, circling Centaur Chiron
Thursday, 30 November 2023 04:50
Observations during a stellar occultation detected the presence of evolving material orbiting around Centaur (2060) Chiron, rather than a two- ring system interpretation, according to a paper by Planetary Science Institute Senior Scientist Amanda Sickafoose.
"We observed a star passing behind the Centaur Chiron from the 1.9-m telescope in Sutherland. We detected dips in the starlight as it Chang'e 5 lunar samples put on display in Macao
Thursday, 30 November 2023 04:50
Lunar samples retrieved by China's Chang'e 5 robotic mission went on display in Macao on Tuesday, marking the first time any lunar samples have been brought to the city for public exhibition.
The samples, contained in a specially built glass case and closely guarded, can be viewed by members of the public at the Macao Science Center until next Saturday.
The appearance of the lunar ma Farewell, Solar Conjunction 2023: Sols 4023-4024
Thursday, 30 November 2023 04:50
Earth planning date: Wednesday, November 29, 2023: Mars has just emerged from its solar conjunction period, when sending commands to all Mars spacecraft was not safe for three weeks since the Red Planet was behind the Sun as seen from Earth.
During that time, Curiosity followed a long plan of instructions covering Sols 4004-4022 which were uploaded to the rover during the week of October 3 Unwrapping Uranus and its icy moon secrets
Thursday, 30 November 2023 04:50
Uranus, the seventh planet from the Sun, orbits in the outer solar system, about two billion miles (3.2 billion kilometers) from Earth. It is an enormous world - quadruple the diameter of Earth, with 15 times the mass and 63 times the volume.
Unvisited by spacecraft for more than 35 years, Uranus inhabits one of the least explored regions of our solar system. Although scientists have learn Astronomers find 'tilted' planets even in pristine solar systems
Thursday, 30 November 2023 04:50
Scientists have long puzzled over why all of the planets in Earth's solar system have slightly slanted orbits around the sun. But a new, Yale-led study suggests this phenomenon may not be so unusual after all. Even in "pristine" solar systems, planets exhibit a bit of a tilt.
Astronomers had long assumed that planets with pitchy, angled orbits - orbits that don't align with the spin axis o