ESA adds Iceye data to Third Party Mission portfolio
Thursday, 10 June 2021 11:00
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SAN FRANCISCO – The European Space Agency plans to offer researchers free access to Iceye’s synthetic aperture radar imagery (SAR) including the ability to task Iceye satellites.
Iceye announced June 10 that it had been approved for inclusion in ESA’s Earthnet Program Third Party Missions (TPM) data portfolio.
Partial eclipse to sweep over northern hemisphere
Thursday, 10 June 2021 10:44 Write a comment
A solar eclipse will be visible over the Earth's northern hemisphere on Thursday with parts of Canada and Siberia privy to the best view of the celestial event.
The eclipse will be partial, which means the people in its shadow won't be plunged into daytime darkness.
Instead, people with the maximum visibility—and necessary protective eyewear—will have a few minutes to glimpse the moon's silhouette ringed by the sun.
In northwest Canada, northern Russia, northwest Greenland and the North Pole, the sun will be 88 percent obscured by the moon.
The eclipse will be partly visible to observers in northwest North America, parts of Europe including France and the UK, and some of northern Asia.
If skies are clear, Londoners will be able to see the moon cover 20 percent of the sun at its maximum, at 11.13am local time (10:13 GMT).
"The farther southeast people are, the less the sun will be obscured," Florent Delefie of the Paris Observatory told AFP.
He stressed that people must never look directly at the sun—even with sunglasses or from behind a cloud—warning "retinal burns can be irreversible".
Partial eclipse sweeps over northern hemisphere
Thursday, 10 June 2021 10:44 Write a comment
A solar eclipse will be visible over the Earth's northern hemisphere on Thursday with parts of Canada and Siberia privy to the best view of the celestial event.
The eclipse will be partial, which means the people in its shadow won't be plunged into daytime darkness.
Instead, people with the maximum visibility—and necessary protective eyewear—will have a few minutes to glimpse the moon's silhouette ringed by the sun.
In northwest Canada, northern Russia, northwest Greenland and the North Pole, the sun will be 88 percent obscured by the moon.
The eclipse will be partly visible to observers in northwest North America, parts of Europe including France and the UK, and some of northern Asia.
If skies are clear, Londoners will be able to see the moon cover 20 percent of the sun at its maximum, at 11.13am local time (10:13 GMT).
"The farther southeast people are, the less the sun will be obscured," Florent Delefie of the Paris Observatory told AFP.
He stressed that people must never look directly at the sun—even with sunglasses or from behind a cloud—warning "retinal burns can be irreversible".
Russian co-founders out of Momentus
Thursday, 10 June 2021 10:08 Write a comment
WASHINGTON — In-space transportation company Momentus says its Russian co-founders are now “completely divested” from the company as it reaches a national security agreement with federal agencies.
In a June 9 statement, Momentus said it had signed a national security agreement (NSA) with the Defense and Treasury Departments, which outlines the steps the company will take to address security concerns that held up the first launches of its space tugs.
Four mission ideas to compete for Earth Explorer 11
Thursday, 10 June 2021 09:20 Write a comment
As part of ESA’s commitment to develop and build satellite missions that push the boundaries of satellite technology and Earth science, four new mission ideas – Cairt, Nitrosat, Seastar and Wivern – have been selected to enter pre-feasibility study and compete to be the eleventh Earth Explorer mission.
ESA selects revolutionary Venus mission EnVision
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EnVision will be ESA’s next Venus orbiter, providing a holistic view of the planet from its inner core to upper atmosphere to determine how and why Venus and Earth evolved so differently.
Forest degradation primary driver of carbon loss in the Brazilian Amazon
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Forest degradation has become the largest process driving carbon loss in the Brazilian Amazon, according to a recent study using ESA satellite data.
China set to launch first astronauts to space station with Shenzhou-12
Thursday, 10 June 2021 07:32 Write a comment
HELSINKI — China rolled out a Long March 2F rocket Wednesday in preparation to send the Shenzhou-12 spacecraft and three astronauts to an orbiting space station module.
ESA flying payloads on wooden satellite
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The world’s first wooden satellite is on the way, in the shape of the Finnish WISA Woodsat. ESA materials experts are contributing a suite of experimental sensors to the mission as well as helping with pre-flight testing.
Arctic coastal sea ice thinning twice as fast than thought
Thursday, 10 June 2021 06:10 Write a comment
Research based on ice-thickness data from ESA’s CryoSat and Envisat missions along with a new model of snow has revealed that sea ice in the coastal regions of the Arctic may be thinning twice as fast as thought.
Rocket in place to send 3 crew to Chinese space station
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Rocket on pad, China ready to send 1st crew to space station
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Perseverance Rover Begins Its First Science Campaign on Mars
Thursday, 10 June 2021 05:56 Write a comment
On June 1, NASA's Perseverance Mars rover kicked off the science phase of its mission by leaving the "Octavia E. Butler" landing site. Until recently, the rover has been undergoing systems tests, or commissioning, and supporting the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter's month of flight tests.
During the first few weeks of this first science campaign, the mission team will drive to a low-lying scenic NASA's Mars helicopter Ingenuity flies for 7th time
Thursday, 10 June 2021 05:56 Write a comment
NASA's Mars helicopter Ingenuity moved to a new landing site about 115 feet away from its original position on the Red Planet during its seventh flight.
The space agency announced Tuesday's successful new flight, along with a photo the aerial drone shot of its own shadow during flight.
"With each flight we gain additional real world info on the performance of the rotor and its th Wake Forest engineers win NASA's Vascular Tissue Challenge
Thursday, 10 June 2021 05:56 Write a comment
A pair of engineering teams from Wake Forest University took home first and second place in NASA's Vascular Tissue Challenge, the space agency announced Wednesday.
Both teams used slightly different techniques to 3D-print vascularized liver tissue in the lab. Now, the two engineering teams will get the opportunity to test their breakthrough tissue models on the International Space Stati