Flight simulations: putting Juice under pressure
Tuesday, 28 March 2023 12:31
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Sat in a windowless office beneath ESA’s Main Control Room in Darmstadt, Germany, two Simulations Officers have complete control over the Juice spacecraft and ESA’s deep space ground stations across the globe – and they take full advantage.
These aren’t the real 35-metre antennas or the actual spacecraft (currently in Kourou, French Guiana), but a complex simulator. For teams that will fly the mission for real, it all looks, feels and behaves just like the real thing. The ‘problem’ for them is, it keeps going wrong.
Down in the simulations bunker, the Officers are revelling in their dastardly plan
Proba-3 complete: Formation-flying satellites fully integrated and ready for testing
Tuesday, 28 March 2023 12:30
The two spacecraft forming ESA's Proba-3 mission for precise formation flying in orbit are now complete. All the instruments and sensors allowing them to maneuver to millimeter scale precision relative to one another have been integrated aboard, and the pair are fully wrapped in multi-layer insulation—ready to be tested in simulated space conditions.
ESA–EGU 2023 Excellence Award winners
Tuesday, 28 March 2023 12:12
Honouring individual scientists and teams of scientists that have contributed to the innovative use of Earth observation data, ESA and the European Geosciences Union (EGU) are happy to announce the winners of this year’s prestigious Excellence Award.
Isar Aerospace raises $165 million as it gears up for first launch
Tuesday, 28 March 2023 08:53
German launch vehicle developer Isar Aerospace announced March 28 it raised $165 million to scale up production of its Spectrum rocket scheduled to make its first flight later this year.
The "Stonehenge calendar" shown to be a modern construct
Tuesday, 28 March 2023 08:28
Stonehenge is an astonishingly complex monument, which attracts attention mostly for its spectacular megalithic circle and "horseshoe", built around 2600 BC.
Over the years, several theories have been put forward about Stonehenge's meaning and function. Today, however, archaeologists have a rather clear picture of this monument as a "place for the ancestors", located within a complex ancie Joint NASA, CNES water-tracking satellite reveals first stunning views
Tuesday, 28 March 2023 08:28
The Surface Water and Ocean Topography mission offers the first taste of the detailed perspectives of Earth's surface water that its cutting-edge instruments will be able to capture.
The international Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) mission - led by NASA and the French space agency Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES) - has sent back some of its first glimpses of water on th Telit Cinterion adds Dual-Band GNSS Positioning to AIROHA AG3335 Chipsets
Tuesday, 28 March 2023 08:28
Telit Cinterion, a global enabler of the intelligent edge, has announced the addition of the SE868K5 family of dual-band GNSS positioning modules. Built on the AIROHA AG3335 chipset family in a scalable design for global deployment or for use in the Indian market, the SE868K5 family consists of SE868K5-D and SE868K5-I modules. To learn more, please visit: https://www.telit.com/iot-project-review Monogoto teams with Skylo and SODAQ to deliver NB-IoT satellite asset tracking
Tuesday, 28 March 2023 08:28
Cloud-based cellular network provider Monogoto has announced a new roaming agreement with Non-Terrestrial Network (NTN) service operator Skylo Technologies. This new agreement lowers the barrier for developers to add satellite connectivity to existing public and/or private networks already available on Monogoto Cloud, delivering the world's most affordable and accessible solution for NB-IoT Sate Quectel announces CC200A-LB satellite module for IoT
Tuesday, 28 March 2023 08:28
Embedded World - Quectel Wireless Solutions, a global IoT solutions provider, has announced the launch of the CC200A-LB satellite module for IoT industries, which utilizes satellite IoT connectivity provided by ORBCOMM, a leading global provider of IoT communications and solutions. The module is designed to provide reliable global coverage and connectivity at a cost-effective price point and wit The Making of Juice – Episode 10
Tuesday, 28 March 2023 08:00
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The Making of Juice series takes the viewer behind the scenes of the European space industry, space technology and planetary science communities around ESA’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) mission.
Juice has a state-of-the-art science payload comprising remote sensing, geophysical and in situ instruments. This episode focuses on the in situ instruments, which will study the particle, magnetic, radio and plasma environment in the Jupiter system.
A magnetometer (J-MAG) equipped with sensors will characterise the Jovian magnetic field and its interaction with that of Ganymede, and will study the subsurface oceans of the icy moon. The Particle Environment Package
The Making of Juice – Episode 10.1
Tuesday, 28 March 2023 08:00
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The Making of Juice series takes the viewer behind the scenes of the European space industry, space technology and planetary science communities around ESA’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) mission.
Juice has a state-of-the-art science payload comprising remote sensing, geophysical and in situ instruments. This episode focuses on the in situ instruments, which will study the particle, magnetic, radio and plasma environment in the Jupiter system.
A magnetometer (J-MAG) equipped with sensors will characterise the Jovian magnetic field and its interaction with that of Ganymede, and will study the subsurface oceans of the icy moon. The Particle Environment Package
Webb measures temperature of rocky exoplanet for first time
Tuesday, 28 March 2023 05:43
The James Webb Space Telescope has measured the temperature of a rocky exoplanet for the first time, finding that a "cousin" of Earth most likely lacks an atmosphere, researchers said Monday.
When the Trappist-1 system was discovered in 2017, astronomers were excited at the prospect that some of its seven rocky planets - which are roughly similar to Earth in size and mass - could be habita Scientists find water inside glass beads on the Moon
Tuesday, 28 March 2023 05:43
Scientists said Monday they have discovered water inside tiny beads of glass scattered across the Moon, suggesting that one day it could be extracted and used by the "explorers of tomorrow".
The Moon was long believed to be dry, but over the last few decades several missions have shown there is water both on the surface and trapped inside minerals.
Mahesh Anand, a professor of planetary Certified and Ready for Rocket-Powered Flight
Tuesday, 28 March 2023 05:43
Insability is a key property that enables both swift iteration in development and unparalleled utility of the end product.
Aside from being a key technology demonstrator, the Mk-II holds significant commercial promise as a suborbital vehicle, spanning a wide range of applications such as earth monitoring, microgravity research, disaster management, and in-situ atmospheric measurements - pr Firefly Aerospace completes risk reduction testing for critical Miranda engine
Tuesday, 28 March 2023 05:43
Firefly Aerospace, Inc., an end-to-end space transportation company, recently completed risk reduction testing for critical Miranda engine components ahead of the first hot fire scheduled this summer. As a larger, scaled-up version of the company's Reaver engines, Miranda will power the Medium Launch Vehicle (MLV) Firefly is co-developing with Northrop Grumman.
"We are making significant p