Moffett Field CA (SPX) Jul 12, 2023
This July, NASA is sending a team of four six-unit (6U)-sized CubeSats into orbit around Earth to see if they're able to cooperate on their own, without real-time updates from mission control. While that kind of autonomous cooperation may not sound too difficult for humans, this team will be robotic - composed of small satellites to test out key technologies for the future of deep space missions

Follow Euclid on its journey to Lagrange point L2 and find out how mission controllers at ESOC in Darmstadt are proceeding with turning on, checking and calibrating the spacecraft’s equipment, the telescope and scientific instruments, as they prepare for routine science observations.

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (SPX) Jul 11, 2023
The Saudi Space Commission (SSC) delegation visiting China held several bilateral meetings with government agencies, Chinese companies, and leaders of the space sector to discuss ways to enhance cooperation and build strategic partnerships in space technologies and industry and its future sectors in a way that serves common interests. Chairman of the Board of Directors of SSC, Eng. Abdulla

Chelmsford UK (SPX) Jul 11, 2023
Teledyne e2v Space Imaging, part of the Teledyne Technologies, is proud to have designed and built sensors for Aeolus, the first ESA satellite mission to acquire profiles of Earth's wind on a global scale. Named after the Greek god of the winds, Aeolus is the fifth satellite in the Living Planet Programme of the European Space Agency. It has become one of the highest impact-per-observation

Durham NC (SPX) Jul 11, 2023
If the United States and the former Soviet Union could cooperate on space efforts during the Cold War, then tensions between nations on Earth today don't have to extend to diplomacy and agreements governing outer space. That's according to speakers at a recent webinar organized by the Space Diplomacy Lab at Duke, part of the university's Rethinking Diplomacy program. "Plans to have R

As the 2023 summer holiday season gets under way, ESA and Amsterdam’s international airport are once again giving travellers a chance to discover some out-of-this-world destinations.

A state-of-the-art conference centre that will support the thriving UK space industry has opened at Harwell campus in Oxfordshire.

Beijing (XNA) Jul 11, 2023
A China-Europe joint space mission, Solar Wind Magnetosphere Ionosphere Link Explorer (SMILE), has entered the flight model phase in an all-around way, according to the National Space Science Center (NSSC) under the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). After a four-day discussion and consultation, the review experts unanimously agreed that SMILE has successfully passed the critical design re

Tempe AZ (SPX) Jul 11, 2023
The origin of Mercury, the closest planet to the sun, is mysterious in many ways. It has a metallic core, like Earth, but its core makes up a much larger fraction of its volume - 85% compared to 15% for Earth. The NASA Discovery-class MESSENGER (Mercury Surface, Space Environment, Geochemistry and Ranging) mission, and first spacecraft to orbit Mercury, captured measurements revealing that

Washington DC (SPX) Jul 11, 2023
A new analysis shows that there are probably many more Earth-like exoplanets with liquid water than had been thought, significantly increasing the chance of finding life. The work finds that even where the conditions are not ideal for liquid water to exist at the surface of a planet, many stars will harbour geological conditions suitable for liquid water under the planet's surface. Present