PIGS finds ancient stars in the heart of the Milky Way
An international team of researchers has obtained the largest set of detailed observations yet of the oldest stars in the centre of our Galaxy, the Milky Way. The Pristine Inner Galaxy Survey (PIGS) team finds that this group of stars is slowly spinning around the centre of the Milky Way, despite being thought to have formed in a chaotic fashion.
They also seem to spend most of their long Seven European IoT providers choose EchoStar for real-time satellite connectivity
EchoStar Corporation (Nasdaq: SATS) reports that seven leading European Internet of Things (IoT) service providers have signed multi-year commercial agreements to develop and sell IoT solutions using EchoStar Mobile's Pan-European, satellite based, LoRa-enabled IoT network.
The customers, API-K, Cyric, DalesLandNet, Dryad, Galaxy1, ProEsys and Symes are leveraging the real-time network to For the People: The motivations fueling Ecuador’s space journey
It’s said nature abhors a vacuum. The same is true of leadership. In the global space community, a government body is almost always a leading component of a nation’s growing […]
Chinese launch firm secures fresh funding for reusable rocket
Chinese rocket firm Space Pioneer has secured C-round funding for its Tianlong-3 medium-lift reusable launch vehicle.
Join NASA to Celebrate Webb Space Telescope’s First Year of Science
NASA is commemorating the first year of science and discoveries from the agency’s James Webb Space Telescope, the largest, most powerful, and most complex space telescope ever built. To celebrate the anniversary, multiple events will take place online and live across the U.S. Merger rumors swirl around Dish and EchoStar
Satellite TV broadcaster Dish Network is rumored to be considering recombining with internet-focused sister company EchoStar to strengthen its financial resources.
Interest grows for human spaceflight in Europe
As the European Space Agency continues to develop proposals for human space exploration efforts, more European countries are showing an interest in launching astronauts.
Congress should stop the coming regulatory assault on commercial space
The Biden administration has launched a commercial space regulation initiative under the name of “mission authorization,” which is laying the groundwork for a potentially debilitating web of unnecessary regulation on the U.S.
The psychology of space exploration — and why it matters on Earth
Astronauts ride a pillar fire off the planet, so naturally, they encounter some fear along the way.
After the launch of Euclid: 'This is a big step toward understanding dark matter and dark energy'
What is it like to work on the fundamental questions about the universe? On July 1, the Euclid satellite launched successfully. This mission from the European Space Agency will take images of the sky to create the most detailed map of the universe ever made. Astronomer Henk Hoekstra (Leiden Observatory) and physicist Alessandra Silvestri (Leiden Institute of Physics) tell about their role in the mission.
The new space satellite is like the Google of the universe. "Euclid is basically a data-gathering machine," Hoekstra explains. "What Hubble covered in 30 years, Euclid can do in one week in both optical and infrared wavelengths. So it's a huge volume of data. With this, you are guaranteed to find the needle in a haystack."
Hoekstra has multiple roles in the mission. He is the lead of the weak lensing group and one of the four cosmology coordinators. This means he was involved from the early stages to set the requirements for the accuracy of the data Euclid will obtain.
