The journey of Juice – episode 1
Friday, 27 September 2024 10:00
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ESA’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice), is on an epic eight-year journey to Jupiter. This first episode of ‘The journey of Juice’ tells the story of Juice’s first months in space, from its launch on 14 April 2023 to its lunar-Earth gravity assist (LEGA for short) in August 2024. This flyby was not only the first double gravity assist manoeuvre of its kind, it was also a perfect opportunity to test out the spacecraft’s cameras and science instruments.
In this episode, Juice’s Mission Manager Nicolas Altobelli explains how the spacecraft will become the first ever human-made
Earth from Space: Northern Territory, Australia
Friday, 27 September 2024 07:00
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This image captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission reveals the impact of severe flooding following heavy rain that hit Australia’s Northern Territory in March 2024. D-Orbit raises 150 million euros in two-part Series C round
Friday, 27 September 2024 07:00
Mars' missing atmosphere could be hiding in plain sight
Thursday, 26 September 2024 19:39
Mars wasn't always the cold desert we see today. There's increasing evidence that water once flowed on the Red Planet's surface, billions of years ago. And if there was water, there must also have been a thick atmosphere to keep that water from freezing. But sometime around 3.5 billion years ago, the water dried up, and the air, once heavy with carbon dioxide, dramatically thinned, leaving only How special is the Milky Way Galaxy?
Thursday, 26 September 2024 19:39
Is our home galaxy, the Milky Way Galaxy, a special place? A team of scientists started a journey to answer this question more than a decade ago. Commenced in 2013, the Satellites Around Galactic Analogs (SAGA) Survey studies galaxy systems like the Milky Way. Now, the SAGA Survey just published three new research articles that provide us with new insights into the uniqueness of our own Milky Wa BlackSky prices $40M Public Offering of Common Stock
Thursday, 26 September 2024 19:39
BlackSky Technology Inc. (NYSE: BKSY) has announced the pricing of its upsized public offering, where it will sell 10,000,000 shares of its Class A common stock at $4.00 per share. This offering is expected to generate gross proceeds of approximately $40 million before deducting underwriting discounts, commissions, and other related expenses.
All shares in the offering are being sold by Bl SkAI Initiative aims to expand astrophysics research with AI
Thursday, 26 September 2024 19:39
With a $20 million, five-year grant from the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Simons Foundation, the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) is partnering with academic institutions and federal labs in the Midwest to advance AI-driven astrophysics research.
The collaboration, led by Northwestern University, will establish the NSF-Simons AI Institute for the Sky Crew completes simulated Mars Mission at JSC
Thursday, 26 September 2024 19:39
A volunteer crew recently "returned" from a simulated 45-day mission to Mars at NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC) in Houston. The crew completed their stay in a small habitat, contributing to research essential for future human space missions to the Moon and Mars.
The HERA (Human Exploration Research Analog) missions are part of NASA's effort to study how humans cope with the unique challe ESA-DLR Lunar facility prepares for simulated exploration
Thursday, 26 September 2024 19:39
The European Space Agency (ESA) and the German Aerospace Center (DLR) inaugurated LUNA, a state-of-the-art lunar analogue facility, on September 25, 2024, in Cologne, Germany. The facility, located near ESA's European Astronaut Centre, is designed to simulate lunar surface conditions to support astronaut training and testing for upcoming lunar missions.
LUNA will serve as a vital tool for Space Force kicks off $1 billion cloud-based satellite operations program
Thursday, 26 September 2024 19:22
Space Force hails progress in missile-warning satellite program
Thursday, 26 September 2024 18:45
Air France plans to connect entire fleet to Starlink Wi-Fi
Thursday, 26 September 2024 18:33
NASA's Artemis science instrument gets tested in moon-like sandbox
Thursday, 26 September 2024 18:01
On Sept. 9 and 10, scientists and engineers tested NASA's LEMS (Lunar Environment Monitoring Station) instrument suite in a "sandbox" of simulated moon regolith at the Florida Space Institute's Exolith Lab at the University of Central Florida in Orlando.
Lunar regolith is a dusty, soil-like material that coats the moon's surface, and researchers wanted to observe how the material would interact with LEMS's hardware, which is being developed to fly to the moon with Artemis III astronauts in late 2026.
Designed and built at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, LEMS is one of three science payloads chosen for development for Artemis III, which will be the first mission to land astronauts on the lunar surface since 1972.
The LEMS instrument package can operate both day and night. It will carry two University of Arizona-built seismometers to the surface to perform long-term monitoring for moonquakes and meteorite impacts.
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