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• ESA Seeks Novel Propulsion Solutions for Cubesat Deorbiting European Spaceflight · 3 Sep 2024 The European Space Agency has published a call for the development of disruptive satellite propulsion systems that are capable of deorbiting cubesats. Cubesats were first conceived by Bob Twiggs, a Stanford University pr...
• ESA delays BepiColombo orbital insertion because of thruster problem SpaceNews · 3 Sep 2024 The European Space Agency is adjusting the trajectory of its BepiColombo mission to Mercury, delaying its insertion into orbit around the innermost planet by nearly a year to compensate for reduced performance from its e...
• Ignite your curiosity for space at ESA Open Days 2024! ESA · 2 Sep 2024
• Watch Sentinel-2C launch live on the final Vega rocket ESA · 2 Sep 2024 The Copernicus Sentinel-2C satellite is ready for liftoff! Tune in to ESA WebTV on 4 September from 03:30 CEST to watch the satellite soar into space on the last Vega rocket to be launched from Europe’s Spaceport in Kour...
• Goodbye Hera: asteroid mission departs ESA test centre ESA · 2 Sep 2024 After a year of testing, ESA’s Hera asteroid mission for planetary defence is about to depart Europe and head towards its launch site in the USA. The Hera team looked on as the crated spacecraft – along with its twin min...
• Thruster Issues Delay BepiColombo’s Mercury Arrival by 11 Months European Spaceflight · 2 Sep 2024 The European Space Agency has announced that persistent issues with the BepiColombo Mercury Transfer Module’s thrusters will delay its arrival around the closest planet to the Sun by 11 months. BepiColombo was launched a...
• Fourth Mercury flyby begins BepiColombo’s new trajectory ESA · 2 Sep 2024 Teams from across ESA and industry have worked continuously over the past four months to overcome a glitch that prevented BepiColombo’s thrusters from operating at full power. The ESA/JAXA mission is still on track, with...
• NASA, ESA Missions Help Scientists Uncover How Solar Wind Gets Energy NASA · 30 Aug 2024 Since the 1960s, astronomers have wondered how the Sun’s supersonic “solar wind,” a stream of energetic particles that flows out into the solar system, continues to receive energy once it leaves the Sun. Now, thanks to a...
• Intuitive Machines to Carry ESA Prospect Payload to Lunar Surface European Spaceflight · 30 Aug 2024 NASA has awarded Intuitive Machines a $116.9 million contract to carry six payloads to the surface of the Moon aboard its Nova-C lunar lander. One of the six payloads aboard the lander will be the European Prospect paylo...
• Cluster’s Salsa satellite primed to reenter and break up ESA · 30 Aug 2024 On 8 September 2024, Salsa (Cluster 2), one of four satellites that make up ESA’s Cluster mission, will reenter Earth’s atmosphere over the South Pacific Ocean Uninhabited Area.
• Discover where space begins: the guide to ESA’s establishments ESA · 30 Aug 2024 Discover where space begins: the guide to ESA’s establishments
• European drill and mini lab secure ride to the Moon ESA · 30 Aug 2024 ESA's Prospect package, including drill and a miniaturised laboratory, will fly to the Moon’s South Polar region in search of volatiles, including water ice, as part of NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services initiative...
• ReOrbit Completes PDR Phase for UKKO Mission SpaceNews · 26 Aug 2024 ReOrbit, a Helsinki-based leading provider of software-first satellites, has successfully completed the Preliminary Design Review (PDR) phase with the European Space Agency (ESA) for its UKKO Mission, part of the
• This is ESA: your perfect introduction to what Europe does in space ESA · 26 Aug 2024 This is ESA: your perfect introduction to what Europe does in space
• Solar Orbiter shows how solar wind gets a magnetic push ESA · 23 Aug 2024 ESA’s Solar Orbiter spacecraft has provided crucial data to answer the decades-long question of where the energy comes from to heat and accelerate the solar wind. Working in tandem with NASA’s Parker Solar Probe, Solar O...
• First views from Juice’s science camera ESA · 23 Aug 2024 Since ESA’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) flew by the Moon and Earth earlier this week, we’ve seen images from its monitoring cameras and we’ve seen images from its navigation camera. Today we reveal the first image...
• Juice’s navigation camera gets first taste of space ESA · 22 Aug 2024 During this week’s lunar-Earth flyby, the Navigation Camera (NavCam) of ESA’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) was tested out in space for the first time.
• Europe Delivers Orion Service Module for Artemis III Mission European Spaceflight · 22 Aug 2024 The third European Service Module, which will power NASA’s Orion spacecraft, has left Germany and is on its way to the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The service module will power the first crewed mission to the surfac...
• Cluster mission set to end with reentry over South Pacific ESA · 22 Aug 2024 On 8 September 2024, the first of four satellites that make up ESA’s Cluster mission will reenter Earth’s atmosphere over the South Pacific Ocean Uninhabited Area.
• ESA’s Icy Moons Explorer Racks Up Two World Firsts European Spaceflight · 22 Aug 2024 The European Space Agency’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer spacecraft has completed the first-ever lunar-Earth flyby and the first-ever double gravity assist manoeuvre. Following its close approach to Earth, the spacecraft b...
• EarthCARE profiles atmospheric particles in detail ESA · 21 Aug 2024 Launched in May, ESA’s EarthCARE satellite has been making waves, with the first images from three of its scientific instruments already delivered. Now, the spotlight is firmly on the atmospheric lidar, the most advanced...
• Juice rerouted to Venus in world’s first lunar-Earth flyby ESA · 21 Aug 2024 ESA’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) has successfully completed a world-first lunar-Earth flyby, using the gravity of Earth to send it Venus-bound, on a shortcut to Jupiter through the inner Solar System.
• Why Juice is coming back to Earth ESA · 19 Aug 2024 ESA’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) returns to Earth on 19–20 August 2024, to complete the world's first Lunar-Earth gravity assist. Flight controllers will guide the spacecraft past the Moon and then Earth itself,...
• New satellite demonstrates the power of AI for Earth observation ESA · 17 Aug 2024 Φsat-2, ESA’s groundbreaking cubesat designed to revolutionise Earth observation with artificial intelligence, has launched.
• Arctic Weather Satellite lifts off to set the stage for better forecasts ESA · 17 Aug 2024 ESA’s Arctic Weather Satellite has been launched, paving the way for a potential constellation of satellites that would provide more frequent data not only to enhance short-term weather forecasts for Arctic nations, but...
• Rings and Things NASA · 16 Aug 2024 The subject of this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image is situated in the Perseus Cluster, also known as Abell 426, 320 million light-years from Earth. It’s a barred spiral galaxy known as MCG+07-07-072, seen here amo...
• ESA Weather Satellite to Launch Aboard Falcon 9 Today European Spaceflight · 16 Aug 2024 The European Space Agency’s AWS mission will be launched aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket later today on a mission to study Arctic weather. The Arctic Weather Satellite (AWS) is intended to be a prototype of a proposed co...
• Hubble Rings in a New Galactic View NASA · 16 Aug 2024 The subject of this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image is situated in the Perseus Cluster, also known as Abell 426, 320 million light-years from Earth. It’s a barred spiral galaxy known as MCG+07-07-072, seen here amo...
• Watch Arctic Weather Satellite and Φsat-2 launch live ESA · 16 Aug 2024 ESA’s Arctic Weather Satellite and Φsat-2 missions are ready for lift-off from Vandenburg, California, with a target launch date of 16 August 2024.
• NASA Telescopes Work Out Black Hole’s Snack Schedule NASA · 14 Aug 2024 By using new data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory as well as ESA’s XMM-Newton, a team of researchers have made important headway in understanding how — and when — a supermassive b...
• ESA and Poland Test Fire Variable-Thrust Rocket Engine European Spaceflight · 12 Aug 2024 A Polish consortium has completed a Phase A static fire test campaign of a new variable-thrust rocket engine. The Throttleable Liquid Propulsion Demonstrator (TLPD) engine project is part of ESA’s Future Launchers Prepar...
• Hubble Spotlights a Supernova NASA · 9 Aug 2024 This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the galaxy LEDA 857074, located in the constellation Eridanus. LEDA 857074 is a barred spiral galaxy, with partially broken spiral arms. The image also captured a super...
• Build your own Ariane 6 rocket with ESA! ESA · 9 Aug 2024 Build your own Ariane 6 rocket with ESA!
• Gaia spots possible moons around hundreds of asteroids ESA · 8 Aug 2024 ESA’s star-surveying Gaia mission has again proven to be a formidable asteroid explorer, spotting potential moons around more than 350 asteroids not known to have a companion.
• Take a trip to Mars’s largest lake ESA · 7 Aug 2024 Mars once hosted a lake larger than any on Earth. The broken-down and dried-up remnants of this ancient lakebed are shown here in amazing detail by ESA’s Mars Express.
• Coming in Hot – NASA’s Chandra Checks Habitability of Exoplanets NASA · 5 Aug 2024 This graphic shows a three-dimensional map of stars near the Sun. The blue haloes represent stars observed with NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and ESA’s XMM-Newton. Astronomers are using these X-ray data to determine h...
• ESA Completes First Drop Test for Reusable Space Rider Spacecraft European Spaceflight · 5 Aug 2024 The European Space Agency has announced that it has begun drop tests for its reusable Space Rider spacecraft in Sardinia, Italy. The testing will validate the spacecraft’s recovery system and certify it as fit for flight...
• Knowledge beyond our planet: space-based data centres ESA · 5 Aug 2024 Space is changing, and the number of actors operating in orbit is increasing. Meanwhile, the amount of data collected by satellites is increasing as well. This data-treasure is priceless, supporting human and robotic exp...
• Hubble Spies a Diminutive Galaxy NASA · 2 Aug 2024 This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image reveals the subtle glow of the galaxy named IC 3430, located 45 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Virgo. This dwarf elliptical galaxy is part of the Virgo clus...
• Glimpses of Hera’s target asteroids inspire new science ESA · 31 Jul 2024 As ESA’s Hera mission for planetary defence completes its pre-launch testing, its target bodies have come into focus as tiny worldlets of their own. A special issue of Nature Communications published this week presents s...