Image: ESA in miniature

Week in images: 20-24 March 2023

Discover our week through the lens

Image: A participant of the Movement in Low gravity environments (MoLo) programme from ESA’s space medicine team at the European Astronaut Centre in Cologne, Germany, testing movements in simulated reduced gravity, called hypogravity, on Earth.

Bern, Switzerland (SPX) Mar 20, 2023
A team including physicists of the University of Bern has for the first time detected subatomic particles called neutrinos created by a particle collider, namely at CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The discovery promises to deepen scientists' understanding of the nature of neutrinos, which are among the most abundant particles in the universe and key to the solution of the question why there

Albuquerque NM (SPX) Mar 21, 2023
In a major breakthrough in the fields of nanophotonics and ultrafast optics, a Sandia National Laboratories research team has demonstrated the ability to dynamically steer light pulses from conventional, so-called incoherent light sources. This ability to control light using a semiconductor device could allow low-power, relatively inexpensive sources like LEDs or flashlight bulbs to replac

New York NY (SPX) Mar 24, 2023
London based TDGA, the owner of the biggest brand in Space Media today, Space Hero, announced a $20m Seed Round. As part of the round, Singapore based New Media Holding, owner of the World's largest Creator network and Asia's largest media network, has invested $5m as a strategic investment. Furthermore, NMH has committed to be the lead investor for this round after an extensive due diligence va

Washington (SPX) Mar 24, 2023
Neuraspace, a European-born global leader in space traffic management (STM), has introduced "Machine Learning Prediction Plots", giving satellite and satellite constellation operators a tool for earlier collision avoidance planning. As a first in the space industry, the latest addition to Neuraspace's STM software, using artificial intelligence (AI), enables operators to decide several day

Louisville CO (SPX) Mar 21, 2023
Sierra Space, a leading, pureplay commercial space company building the first end-to-end business and technology platform in space, has announced the creation of a new strategy and government affairs group that positions the company for long-term success and growth in the Orbital Age. To lead this dynamic new organization, Sierra Space recruited one of Washington, D.C.'s most prominent and

Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Mar 24, 2023
By adapting technology used for gamma-ray astronomy, a group of experimental researchers has found that X-ray transitions previously thought to have been unpolarized according to atomic physics, are in fact highly polarized, reports a new study published in Physical Review Letters on 15 March. When electrons recombine with highly charged ions, X-ray polarization becomes important for testi

College Park MD (SPX) Mar 21, 2023
Water makes up 71% of Earth's surface, but no one knows how or when such massive quantities of water arrived on Earth. A new study published in the journal Nature brings scientists one step closer to answering that question. Led by University of Maryland Assistant Professor of Geology Megan Newcombe, researchers analyzed melted meteorites that had been floating around in space since the so