Copernical Team
Can ET detect us
What would the Earth look like to an alien civilization located light years away? A team of researchers from Mauritius and Manchester University has used crowd-sourced data to simulate radio leakage from mobile towers and predict what an alien civilization might detect from various nearby stars, including Barnard's star, six light years away from Earth. Ramiro Saide, currently an intern at the S ESA astronaut candidates of the class of 2022
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ESA's astronaut candidates of the class of 2022 at the European Astronaut Centre in Cologne, Germany.
The five candidates are Sophie Adenot, Pablo Álvarez Fernández, Rosemary Coogan, Raphaël Liégeois, and Marco Sieber. The group is part of the 17-member astronaut class of 2022, selected from 22 500 applicants from across ESA Member States.
The astronaut candidates will be trained to the highest level for future space missions. Basic training includes learning about space exploration, technical and scientific disciplines, space systems and operations, as well as spacewalks and survival training.
Euclid arrives at launch site
ESA’s Euclid spacecraft finished its ocean cruise safe and sound on 30 April at Port Canaveral in Florida. Subsequently, the satellite was moved by road to the Astrotech facility near Cape Canaveral.
New video series captures team working on NASA's Europa Clipper
Destined for Jupiter's icy moon Europa, the Europa Clipper spacecraft—the largest NASA has ever flown on an interplanetary mission—is being readied to launch in October 2024. Between now and then, thousands of hours of work will go into assembling and testing the spacecraft to ensure it's hardy enough to survive a six-year 1.6-billion-mile (2.6 billion kilometer) journey and sophisticated enough to perform a detailed science investigation of this mysterious moon.
Watch live: ESA's class of 2022 astronaut candidates first news conference
Join the webinar on Accessibility in Human Spaceflight
What are the next steps for making human spaceflight more inclusive, accessible, and safer? How can designing for space accessibility improve accessibility on Earth? Where does ESA’s parastronaut feasibility project stand?
On Thursday, 11 May 2023 at 15:00-17:00 CEST, join the webinar organised by ESA’s Advanced Concepts Team and ESA’s Chief Diversity Officer, with the support of the non-profit BIRNE7 e.V.
Meet Dieter Pilz, new Director of Technology, Engineering and Quality
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Dr Dietmar Pilz is ESA’s new Director of Technology, Engineering and Quality (D/TEC), and Head of ESTEC in Noordwijk, the Netherlands.
Dr Pilz has over 20 years of professional experience in the European and international aerospace industry, in various engineering and programme management positions in the defence and security sectors and the space community.
In air dominance, the past and future converge
It was the early 1990s, and the fighter jet, approaching 20 years old, had been sidelined on missions where the targets were farther than the pilot could see.
Then came the AIM-120A AMRAAM missile, which could seek and strike targets beyond visual range.
"It was a complete game-changer for the way we operationally employed the F-16," said retired U.S. Air Force Maj. Gen. Jon Norman, US Army awards $4.7B production contract for all-weather GMLRS rockets
The U.S. Army has awarded Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) a Not-to-Exceed $4.79 billion contract to manufacture two full-rate production lots of GMLRS rockets and associated equipment.
The contract calls for the production of GMLRS Unitary and Alternative Warhead (AW) rockets and integrated logistics support for the U.S. Army and international partners.
"We are working closely with our A Boeing reports another loss in Q1, but confirms forecast
Boeing reported a bigger-than-expected quarterly loss Wednesday due to persistent quality control problems with its jets, but shares rallied as it maintained key medium- and long-term targets.
The company reported a loss of $425 million, compared with a $1.2 billion loss in the year-ago period, reflecting the continued drag from supply chain issues across its commercial and defense businesse