Rocket tanks of carbon-fiber–reinforced plastic are proven possible
Wednesday, 28 July 2021 12:30Future rockets could fly with tanks made of lightweight carbon fiber reinforced plastic thanks to ground-breaking research carried out within ESA's Future Launchers Preparatory Program.
Building on earlier studies, MT Aerospace in Germany has demonstrated a novel design of a small scale tank made of a unique carbon-fiber reinforced plastic (CFRP) that is not only leak-proof with liquid hydrogen, but also compatible with liquid oxygen, without the use of a metal liner.
First test of Europe's new space brain
Wednesday, 28 July 2021 12:30ESA has successfully operated a spacecraft with Europe's next-generation mission control system for the first time. The powerful software, named the "European Ground System—Common Core' (EGS-CC), will be the 'brain' of all European spaceflight operations in the years to come, and promises new possibilities for how future missions will fly.
Rocket tanks of carbon fibre reinforced plastic proven possible
Wednesday, 28 July 2021 11:00Future rockets could fly with tanks made of lightweight carbon fibre reinforced plastic thanks to ground-breaking research carried out within ESA’s Future Launchers Preparatory Programme.
Watch the launch of Eutelsat Quantum
Wednesday, 28 July 2021 09:43Follow the launch on 30 July of a sophisticated telecommunications satellite capable of being completely repurposed while in space.
Space Tourism, Space Entrepreneurs and the Business and Economics of Space
Wednesday, 28 July 2021 06:45Recent developments related to Space are simply astonishing. Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon, went to space just a few days ago on July 20, 2021 on Blue Origin's New Shepard rocket. Blue Origin is a space tourism company founded by Jeff Bezos in 2000. In addition to the brother of Jeff Bezos (Mark Bezos), the two other passengers in the trip were Wally Funk (82), who became the oldest person to go
Red bodies similar to Kuiper objects found in main asteroid belt
Wednesday, 28 July 2021 06:45Two asteroids (203 Pompeja and 269 Justitia) have been discovered with a redder spectrum than any other object in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. The discovery was led by HASEGAWA Sunao, Associate Senior Researcher at ISAS JAXA, with an international team of researchers from MIT, the University of Hawai'i, Seoul National University, Kyoto University and the Laboratoire d'Astrophysiqu
Aerial Scouting of 'Raised Ridges' for Ingenuity's Flight 10
Wednesday, 28 July 2021 06:45Ingenuity has come a long way from its original airfield, "Wright Brothers Field," which is 0.64 miles (1.04 kilometers) to the northeast of our current location. We got here during Flight 9, an endeavor that had our helicopter breaking several of our own records as we relocated to the far side of the "Seitah" geologic unit. Covering 2,051 feet (625 meters), Flight 9 was executed so that Ingenui
Western leads global project observing rare meteor showers and meteorite falls
Wednesday, 28 July 2021 06:45As billionaires battle it out in a space race that only a handful of the world's richest persons can play, a highly inclusive international project is looking in the other direction - what's flying towards Earth - and all are welcome. Led by Western University's Denis Vida, the Global Meteor Network (GMN) is a collection of more than 450 video meteor cameras hosted by amateur astronomers a
Magnetic 'balding' of black holes saves general relativity prediction
Wednesday, 28 July 2021 06:45Magnetic fields around black holes decay quickly, report researchers from the Flatiron Institute, Columbia University and Princeton University. This finding backs up the so-called 'no-hair conjecture' predicted by Einstein's general relativity. Black holes aren't what they eat. Einstein's general relativity predicts that no matter what a black hole consumes, its external properties depend
On the hunt for 'hierarchical' black holes
Wednesday, 28 July 2021 06:45Black holes, detected by their gravitational wave signal as they collide with other black holes, could be the product of much earlier parent collisions. Such an event has only been hinted at so far, but scientists at the University of Birmingham in the UK, and Northwestern University in the US, believe we are getting close to tracking down the first of these so-called 'hierarchical' black
Astronomers show how planets form in binary systems without getting crushed
Wednesday, 28 July 2021 06:45Astronomers have developed the most realistic model to date of planet formation in binary star systems. The researchers, from the University of Cambridge and the Max Planck Institute for Extra-terrestrial Physics, have shown how exoplanets in binary star systems - such as the 'Tatooine' planets spotted by NASA's Kepler Space Telescope - came into being without being destroyed in their chao
Punch mission advances toward 2023 launch
Wednesday, 28 July 2021 06:45On July 23, 2021, the Polarimeter to UNify the Corona and Heliosphere (PUNCH) mission achieved an important milestone, passing its latest NASA review and entering the final mission design phase with a new launch-readiness target of October 2023. Southwest Research Institute is leading PUNCH, a NASA Small Explorer (SMEX) mission that will integrate understanding of the Sun's corona, the outer atm
University Of Bremen conducts research on next generation wireless communication
Wednesday, 28 July 2021 06:45Extremely fast, energy-efficient, fail-safe - and extremely complex: The German government is funding research on the next generation 6G wireless systems with up to 250 million euros. University of Bremen experts play a key role in this research. 6G technology will revolutionize the wireless high-performance data technology and our communication systems once again in the coming decade. "It
Department of Energy announces $9.35 million for research on high energy density plasmas
Wednesday, 28 July 2021 06:45the Department of Energy's Office of Science (SC) and the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) announced $9.35 million for 21 research projects in High-Energy Density Laboratory Plasmas (HEDLP). High-Energy Density Laboratory Plasmas (HEDLP) research explores the behavior of ionized matter at extreme conditions such as high temperature, density, or pressure. Researchers apply th