How Juice was made ready for Jupiter
Tuesday, 04 April 2023 11:10
Deciding to go to Jupiter was the easy part: it’s by far the largest planet around the Sun, resembling a Solar System in its own right with its many moons, three of which may well be home to hidden oceans beneath their icy surfaces. Then came the practical question: how do we actually put together a mission to go there? It was here that ESA’s Directorate of Technology, Engineering and Quality lent its support to the Juice team, tackling numerous technical challenges that threatened to bar Europe’s way to the king of planets.
Virgin Orbit files for bankruptcy
Tuesday, 04 April 2023 11:02
Launch company Virgin Orbit filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy April 4, having failed to achieve financial orbit after burning through more than $1 billion.
Virgin Orbit files for bankruptcy, seeks buyer
Tuesday, 04 April 2023 10:32
Virgin Orbit, the satellite launch company founded by Richard Branson, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and will sell the business, the firm said in a statement Tuesday.
The California-based company said last week it was laying off 85 percent of its employees - around 675 people - to reduce expenses due to its inability to secure sufficient funding.
Virgin Orbit suffered a major set NASA astronaut Christina Hammock Koch to become first woman to orbit the moon
Tuesday, 04 April 2023 10:32
NASA astronaut Christina Hammock Koch - a flight engineer on the International Space Station and record-holder for the longest single spaceflight by a female - will become the first woman to orbit the moon next year when the space agency launches its Artemis II mission.
Koch's name was revealed Monday as a member of the four-person crew of astronauts from the United States and Canada Earth's anisotropic inner core structure driven by dipole geomagnetic field: Study
Tuesday, 04 April 2023 10:32
A geomagnetic field is generated in Earth's interior and extends into outer space to protect Earth from cosmic radiation and the charged particles of solar wind. The magnetic field is generated by the convection of charged molten iron fluids in Earth's outer core.
In contrast to the convective homogenous outer core, Earth's inner core is inhomogeneous and anisotropic. The seismic velocity ESA's astronaut candidates start training
Tuesday, 04 April 2023 09:22
ESA welcomed its latest group of astronaut candidates yesterday at its European Astronaut Centre in Cologne, Germany, at the start of their one-year basic training to prepare for future space missions.
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Tuesday, 04 April 2023 08:00
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Science with Euclid
Tuesday, 04 April 2023 07:00
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Discover the top five mysteries ESA’s mission Euclid will help solve.
ESA's Euclid mission is designed to explore the composition and evolution of the dark Universe. The space telescope will create a great map of the large-scale structure of the Universe across space and time by observing billions of galaxies out to 10 billion light-years, across more than a third of the sky. Euclid will explore how the Universe has expanded and how structure has formed over cosmic history, revealing more about the role of gravity and the nature of dark energy and dark matter.
Do Earth-like exoplanets have magnetic fields
Monday, 03 April 2023 23:24
Earth's magnetic field does more than keep everyone's compass needles pointed in the same direction. It also helps preserve Earth's sliver of life-sustaining atmosphere by deflecting high energy particles and plasma regularly blasted out of the sun. Researchers have now identified a prospective Earth-sized planet in another solar system as a prime candidate for also having a magnetic field - YZ NASA's first flight with crew critical to long-term return to the moon
Monday, 03 April 2023 23:24
Astronauts on their first flight aboard NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion spacecraft will venture around the Moon. Their mission will be to confirm all of the spacecraft's systems operate as designed with crew aboard in the actual environment of deep space. The Artemis II flight test will be NASA's first mission with crew and will pave the way to land the first woman and next man ISRO conducts the Reusable Launch Vehicle Autonomous Landing Mission
Monday, 03 April 2023 23:24
ISRO successfully conducted the Reusable Launch Vehicle Autonomous Landing Mission (RLV LEX). The test was conducted at the Aeronautical Test Range (ATR), Chitradurga, Karnataka in the early hours on April 2, 2023.
The RLV took off at 7:10 am IST by a Chinook Helicopter of the Indian Air Force as an underslung load and flew to a height of 4.5 km (above MSL). Once the predetermined pillbox Japan postpones H2A rocket launch after H3 failure
Monday, 03 April 2023 23:24
Japan will postpone an H2A rocket launch originally scheduled for May until August or later, the nation's space agency said on Friday.
The decision was made as the rocket shares components in second-stage engines with its successor H3 rocket, which was forced to self-destruct shortly after takeoff in March.
According to the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), the 57-meter H3 r Privately built, liquid-fuel rocket first in world to reach orbit in debut flight
Monday, 03 April 2023 23:24
The TL 2, a carrier rocket developed by Space Pioneer, reached orbit on Sunday afternoon, becoming the first privately built, liquid-fuel rocket in China to reach orbit.
The rocket blasted off at 4:48 pm from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwestern China. Shortly after, it placed a remote-sensing satellite in a sun-synchronous orbit about 500 kilometers above the Earth, Space P Ready for Software Upgrade Sols 3786-3788
Monday, 03 April 2023 23:24
An issue at a Deep Space Network station prevented the Sol 3785 plan from being sent to Mars, so none of those planned activities occurred. But the rover is in a good location and orientation for the software upgrade that is planned for next week, so no driving is included in the Sol 3786-3788 weekend plan. Similarly, no arm motion is allowed in the weekend plan, to ensure that MSL is ready for Galaxy clusters yield new evidence for standard model of cosmology
Monday, 03 April 2023 23:24
Cosmologists have found new evidence for the standard model of cosmology - this time, using data on the structure of galaxy clusters.
In a recent study, a team led by physicists at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University made detailed measurements of the X-ray emission from galaxy clusters, which revealed the distribution of matter within the