Humidity caused corrosion of Starliner capsule valves, Boeing, NASA say
Wednesday, 20 October 2021 09:56
Laser Communications Relay Demonstration gears up for launch
Wednesday, 20 October 2021 09:56
IU physicists lead world's most precise measurement of neutron lifetime
Wednesday, 20 October 2021 09:56
Samples from China mission show Moon 'active' more recently than thought
Wednesday, 20 October 2021 09:56
Dunlap Astronomer discovers we may be surrounded by tunnel-like structure
Wednesday, 20 October 2021 09:56
Russian film crew says shooting in space a 'huge challenge'
Wednesday, 20 October 2021 09:56
White House declines comment on China hypersonic missile test
Wednesday, 20 October 2021 09:56
Uncovering the secrets of ultra-low frequency gravitational waves
Wednesday, 20 October 2021 09:56
Hear sounds from Mars captured by Perseverance Rover
Wednesday, 20 October 2021 09:56
Researchers call for armchair astronomers to help find unknown hidden worlds
Wednesday, 20 October 2021 09:56
Astronomers see white dwarf switch on and off
Wednesday, 20 October 2021 09:56
Dwarf galaxy catches globular cluster
Wednesday, 20 October 2021 09:56
Ten years of Soyuz at Europe’s Spaceport
Wednesday, 20 October 2021 09:31
On 21 October 2011, the first pair of Galileo navigation satellites was launched by a Russian-built Soyuz rocket from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana.
Opened-out ‘FlatSat’ for CubeSat testing
Wednesday, 20 October 2021 08:30
ESA’s latest CubeSat mission is destined to never leave the ground. Instead it is doing its duty as an opened-out ‘FlatSat’ – with its interlinked subsystems spread out across a table at the Agency’s Data Systems and Microelectronics Laboratory at its ESTEC technical centre in the Netherlands.
Calm above the storm
Wednesday, 20 October 2021 06:38
Auroras make for great Halloween décor over Earth, though ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet snapped these green smoky swirls of plasma from the International Space Station in August. Also pictured are the Soyuz MS-18 “Yuri Gagarin” (left) and the new Nauka module (right).
The Station saw quite some aurora activity that month, caused by solar particles colliding with Earth’s atmosphere and producing a stunning light show.
Fast forward to October and space is quite busy.
On 9 October the Sun ejected a violent mass of fast-moving plasma into space that arrived at Earth a few days later. The coronal mass ejection (CME)