Gaia: Milky Way’s last major collision was surprisingly recent
Thursday, 06 June 2024 12:00
Our galaxy has collided with many others in its lifetime. ESA’s Gaia space telescope now reveals that the most recent of these crashes took place billions of years later than we thought.
HPE’s Spaceborne Computer offers template for space-based AI
Thursday, 06 June 2024 12:00
Starship megarocket achieves first ocean splashdown: live feed
Thursday, 06 June 2024 11:05
Starship, SpaceX's massive prototype rocket that may one day send humans to Mars, achieved its first ever ocean splashdown during its fourth flight test, a live feed showed Thursday.
"Splashdown confirmed! Congratulations to the entire SpaceX team on an exciting fourth flight test of Starship!" Elon Musk's company posted on X.
The most powerful launch system ever built blasted off fr Boeing Starliner spacecraft springs more leaks on way to ISS
Thursday, 06 June 2024 11:05
Boeing's Starliner crew capsule, which is making its way to the International Space Station on its first mission carrying astronauts, has developed two helium leaks since entering orbit but remains stable and on course for docking, NASA said.
The spaceship finally blasted off from Florida on Wednesday following years of delays and safety scares - as well as two recently aborted launch atte Preparing for future human spaceflight missions in low Earth orbit
Thursday, 06 June 2024 10:37
At ILA Berlin, ESA and Vast signed a Memorandum of Understanding for future Vast space stations.
Air-quality mission ready to join its host weather satellite
Thursday, 06 June 2024 09:58
Following months of meticulous testing to ensure that it will deliver first-class data on air quality around the world, the new Copernicus Sentinel-5 instrument has been delivered to Airbus in France ready to be installed on the first MetOp Second Generation weather satellite.
Dozens of companies, institutions and NGOs sign the Zero Debris Charter
Thursday, 06 June 2024 09:45
More than 40 companies, research centres and international organisations signed the Zero Debris Charter at the Berlin International Airshow (ILA) today, confirming their dedication to the long-term sustainability of human activities in space.
Chang’e-6 spacecraft dock in lunar orbit ahead of journey back to Earth
Thursday, 06 June 2024 09:25
Opening day at ILA 2024
Thursday, 06 June 2024 08:00
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The 2024 edition of the Berlin International Airshow (ILA), Germany's largest aerospace trade show, opened its doors on 5 June. ESA is taking part with an exhibition in the Space Pavilion alongside the German Space Agency (DLR) and the German Aerospace Industries Association (BDLI).
Highlights of the opening day included the visit of the German Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz, the Space Pavilion opening ceremony, and the kick-off press conference with ESA Director General Josef Aschbacher.
SES Space and Defense Successfully Demonstrates Multi-orbit, Multi-band LEO Relay
Thursday, 06 June 2024 03:24
SES Space and Defense, a subsidiary of SES, has announced the successful demonstration of a multi-orbit, multi-band commercial space relay service for NASA's Communications Services Project (CSP).
In collaboration with Planet Labs, SES utilized its O3b mPOWER satellite constellation in Medium Earth Orbit (MEO) and Planet's Low Earth Orbit (LEO) flight-representative terminal to demonstrate Carbon capture must quadruple by 2050 to meet climate targets: report
Thursday, 06 June 2024 03:24
By 2050, humanity must durably remove four times as much CO2 from the air as today to cap global warming below the crucial target of two degrees Celsius, researchers said Tuesday.
But massively expanding CO2-absorbing forests - 99 percent of current carbon removal - could claim land needed to grow food and biofuels, while it remains highly uncertain whether new technologies for sucking CO2