Planet joins Ursa Space's Virtual Constellation and Partner Network
Thursday, 06 April 2023 14:19
Ursa Space Systems, a global satellite intelligence infrastructure provider, has announced that Planet Labs PBC (NYSE: PL), a leading provider of daily data and insights about Earth, will join its Virtual Constellation and Partner Network.
The addition of Planet provides Ursa Space customers with access to daily satellite data that unlocks solutions to some of the most pressing challenges EUMETSAT's Data Lake - key element of DestinE has been kicked off
Thursday, 06 April 2023 14:19
Data Lake, a massive repository of data managed by EUMETSAT, will provide the foundation for "Destination Earth" - a European Union's flagship initiative of digital Earth modelling contributing to the European digital and green transformation. CloudFerro, the prime contractor for the project, has announced that the first phase of works has already started, and is planned to be completed by June First pair of second-generation weather satellites, built by Airbus, enter their test phase
Thursday, 06 April 2023 14:19
The Airbus built satellite twins, MetOp-SG A and B will provide a panoply of new meteorological data that will substantially improve numerical weather prediction - the backbone of our daily weather forecasts - at regional and global levels. The multiple instruments on-board will also provide key observations for climate monitoring, atmospheric chemistry and other services such as air pollution, New membrane mirrors for large space-based telescopes
Thursday, 06 April 2023 14:19
Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics have developed a new way to produce and shape large, high-quality mirrors that are much thinner than conventional mirrors used for space telescopes. The resulting mirrors are flexible enough to be rolled up and stored compactly inside a launch vehicle.
"Launching and deploying space telescopes is a complicated and costly How to follow the Juice launch live
Thursday, 06 April 2023 13:30
ESA’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer mission, Juice, is planned for launch at 13:15 BST/14:15 CEST on 13 April from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana. Here’s how to follow the key milestones online.
Webb scores another ringed world with new image of Uranus
Thursday, 06 April 2023 13:00
Webb’s infrared image highlights the planet’s dramatic rings and dynamic atmosphere. Following in the footsteps of the Neptune image released in 2022, the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has taken a stunning image of the solar system’s other ice giant, the planet Uranus. The new image features dramatic rings as well as bright features in the planet’s atmosphere.
Untangling the ocean biological carbon pump
Thursday, 06 April 2023 12:38
They may be microscopic, but their ability to sequester carbon is phenomenal. We are talking phytoplankton – and scientists working on a project funded by ESA are assessing different aspects of the role that these tiny plants play in the ocean carbon cycle to better understand climate processes.
Startup aims to fill technology gaps in space warfare
Thursday, 06 April 2023 12:13
True Anomaly, formed a year ago to focus on the national security market, announced April 6 it has raised $30 million in pre-seed, seed, and Series A funding.
JUICE Pre-Launch Press Briefing
Thursday, 06 April 2023 12:00
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ESA’s JUpiter ICy moons Explorer (Juice) will launch from Europe’s Spaceport at Kourou in French Guiana on Thursday 13 April 2023. Watch the replay of this online media briefing to hear more about the mission and the launch itself. Participants will include Olivier Witasse, Juice Project Scientist ; Ruedeger Albat, Head of Ariane 5 Programme at ESA and Alessandro Atzei, Payload System Engineer.
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Practice makes perfect Beam-hopping JoeySat ready for launch
Thursday, 06 April 2023 11:40
An advanced broadband satellite that will provide high-speed internet connectivity from low Earth orbit has left OneWeb Florida Facilities to Vandenberg launch pad.
Jupiter’s radiation belts – and how to survive them
Thursday, 06 April 2023 10:07
ESA’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer, Juice, is headed to the largest structure in the Solar System – not the gas giant itself but the mammoth magnetic field that it generates. Its exact size varies with the solar wind, but Jupiter’s magnetosphere is on average 20 million kilometres across, which is about 150 times wider than its parent planet and almost 15 times the diameter of the Sun. But within that field lurks a clear and present danger to space missions – intense belts of radiation much more energetic and intense than Earth’s own Van Allen belts.
Loft Orbital orders 15 more buses from Airbus OneWeb Satellites
Thursday, 06 April 2023 10:04
Loft Orbital has ordered an additional 15 satellite buses from Airbus OneWeb Satellites to meet growing demand for its standardized space platforms.
Europe’s biggest test chamber for space antennas takes shape
Thursday, 06 April 2023 09:43
Antennas and radio frequency systems for space are growing larger and more powerful, so to keep pace ESA’s ground-based test facilities are scaling up too. A construction project underway beside the dunes of the North Sea marks the expansion of the ESTEC technical centre in the Netherlands with the addition of Europe’s largest antenna and radio-frequency payload test chamber – Hertz 2.0.
China invites Venezuela to join moon base project
Thursday, 06 April 2023 07:59
China has invited Venezuela to join its lunar research station project as the country works to gain partners for the endeavor.