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- BepiColombo's fifth Mercury flyby ESA · 29 Nov 2024 BepiColombo's fifth Mercury flyby
- Watch live: Vega-C to launch Sentinel-1C ESA · 29 Nov 2024 The Copernicus Sentinel-1C satellite is ready for liftoff! Tune in to ESA WebTV on 4 December from 22:00 CET to watch the satellite soar into space on a Vega-C rocket to be launched from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, Fre...
- Week in images: 25-29 November 2024 ESA · 29 Nov 2024 Week in images: 25-29 November 2024
- December’s Night Sky Notes: Spot the King of Planets NASA · 29 Nov 2024 by Kat Troche of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific Jupiter is our solar system’s undisputed king of the planets! Jupiter is bright and easy to spot from our vantage point on Earth, helped by its massive size and ba...
- Astroscale approaches critical design review for OneWeb de-orbit mission SpaceNews · 29 Nov 2024 The British subsidiary of Japan’s Astroscale is preparing for a critical design review early next year of a servicer that will attempt to remove a OneWeb broadband satellite from low Earth orbit in 2026.
- ESA to Award Avio New Vega E Contract Before the End of 2024 European Spaceflight · 29 Nov 2024 ESA Director of Space Transportation Toni Tolker-Nielsen has revealed that ESA expects to award a new contract to Avio for the development of Vega E before the end of 2024. Tolker-Nielsen made the comments during a media...
- Earth from Space: Agricultural patchwork, Romania ESA · 29 Nov 2024 A colourful patchwork of agricultural fields is pictured in this radar image captured by Copernicus Sentinel-1 over southeastern Romania.
- SatVu Secures £10M in Funding for its Thermal Imaging Service European Spaceflight · 28 Nov 2024 Earth observation data provider SatVu has announced that it has secured £10 million (€12 million) in new funding to accelerate the deployment of the company’s HotSat-2 and HotSat-3 satellites. London-based SatVu was foun...
- Vega-C return to flight launch slips a day to allow for ‘further precautionary checks’ Spaceflight Now · 28 Nov 2024 The launch of the European Commission’s Sentinel-1C satellite is now targeting no earlier than Wednesday, Dec. 4, from the European Spaceport in French Guiana. The next update on launch preparations are set to be publish...
- China to launch next-generation Beidou satellites in 2027 SpaceNews · 28 Nov 2024 HELSINKI — China has announced a strategic roadmap for advancing its Beidou positioning and navigation system by 2035, in a move which could have global implications. The country plans to […]
- Watch eclipse-making Proba-3 launch ESA · 28 Nov 2024 ESA’s eclipse-making precise formation-flying mission is nearly ready for liftoff! Proba-3 is scheduled for launch on a PSLV-XL rocket from Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota, India, on Wednesday, 4 December, at 1...
- Watch eclipse-making Proba-3 launch today ESA · 28 Nov 2024 ESA’s eclipse-making precise formation-flying mission is nearly ready for liftoff! Proba-3 is scheduled for launch on a PSLV-XL rocket from Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota, India, on Wednesday, 4 December, at 1...
- Starbase continues its rapid pace of advancement after Starship Flight 6 NASASpaceflight · 27 Nov 2024 With a successful test of Starship Flight 6, SpaceX has continued building on its many…
- Aaron Yazzie: Bridging Indigenous Heritage and Space Exploration NASA · 27 Nov 2024 Aaron Yazzie’s dream of being part of humanity’s exploration of space took him on a journey from his childhood home on the Navajo Nation to working at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Southern California. His jo...
- Thanksgiving Celebrations in Space NASA · 27 Nov 2024 The Thanksgiving holiday typically brings families and friends together in a celebration of common gratitude for all the good things that have happened during the previous year. People celebrate the holiday in various wa...
- ESA Award Open Cosmos a €34.6M for NanoMagSat Mission European Spaceflight · 27 Nov 2024 The European Space Agency has awarded an Open Cosmos-led consortium a €34.6 million contract to develop, launch, and commission a constellation of three satellites for the agency’s NanoMagSat mission. NanoMagSat was appr...
- Vega C return to flight slips a day SpaceNews · 27 Nov 2024 European officials say the Vega C rocket is ready for its return to flight next week despite a technical issue that will delay the launch of an Earth science satellite by at least a day.
- John Herrington Performs a Spacewalk NASA · 27 Nov 2024 On Nov. 30, 2002, NASA astronauts John Herrington (pictured) and Michael Lopez-Alegria performed the third and final spacewalk of the STS-113 mission. The goal of the mission was to install and activate the Port 1 Integr...
- Droplets face to face in space ESA · 27 Nov 2024 Droplets face to face in space
- NASA Plane Supported Innovative Microgravity Research in ‘90s NASA · 27 Nov 2024 A bell rings and a strobe light flashes as a pilot pulls the nose of the DC-9 aircraft up sharply. The blood quickly drains from researchers’ heads as they are pulled to the cabin floor by a force twice that of normal gr...
- An Electronic Traffic Monitor for Airports NASA · 27 Nov 2024 Ground traffic management program saves passengers and airlines time while cutting fuel costs
- Sentinel-1C pre-launch media briefing ESA · 27 Nov 2024 Watch the replay of the Sentinel-1C pre-launch media briefing for detailed information on the mission which will be launched aboard a Vega-C rocket no earlier than 4 December at 18:20 local time (22:20 CET) from Europe’s...
- Manager and Program Analyst Tami Wisniewski NASA · 27 Nov 2024 “I love my country. I love serving my country. I think that was ingrained in me in the military, where I grew to realize how lucky we are to live in America and have the freedoms that we have. When I returned from [my fi...
- The urgent need for a national GPS jamming detection system SpaceNews · 27 Nov 2024 GPS threats are increasing at a record rate. Escalating conflicts around the world are undermining GPS reliability as a surge of interference attacks continues to impact vast areas of Europe […]
- VERITAS Venus mission seeks to avoid further delays SpaceNews · 27 Nov 2024 A NASA mission to Venus already delayed by three years because of institutional issues is seeking to avoid another delay of nearly a year and a half.
- Landspace puts 2 satellites in orbit with enhanced Zhuque-2 rocket SpaceNews · 27 Nov 2024 HELSINKI — Chinese launch startup Landspace put two satellites into orbit late Tuesday with the first launch of an improved version of the Zhuque-2 rocket. The Zhuque-2 enhanced version (ZQ-2E) […]
- Watch live: Sentinel-1C pre-launch media briefing ESA · 27 Nov 2024 Watch live: Sentinel-1C pre-launch media briefing
- ESA awards development contract for NanoMagSat ESA · 27 Nov 2024 Today, the ESA awarded a contract to Open Cosmos to design, build, launch and commission the NanoMagSat Scout satellites. This new mission will uphold Europe’s leadership in monitoring Earth’s magnetic field and contribu...
- European science takes express ride into space ESA · 27 Nov 2024 The SubOrbital Express-4 sounding rocket was successfully launched from the Esrange Space Center outside Kiruna, in the north of Sweden, at 06:00 CET yesterday morning.
- Webb traces swirling spiral arms in infrared ESA · 27 Nov 2024 Webb traces spiral arms in infrared
- 10 ways Sentinel-1 data lets us ‘see’ our world ESA · 27 Nov 2024 As the launch of the Sentinel-1C satellite approaches, we reflect on some of the many ways the Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission has given us remarkable radar insights into our planet over the years.
- Japan’s Epsilon S Rocket Suffers Another Setback SpacePolicyOnline.com · 27 Nov 2024 Japan’s efforts to develop the Epsilon S rocket suffered another setback when the engine exploded during a test on Tuesday (Japan time). A test last year ended the same way.
- NASA outlines impacts of VIPER on CLPS lunar lander program SpaceNews · 27 Nov 2024 NASA estimated it would have to cancel up to four commercial lunar lander missions and delay up to four more to fly a rover mission the agency announced in July it planned to cancel.
- SpaceX gets conditional approval for direct-to-smartphone service SpaceNews · 26 Nov 2024 The Federal Communications Commission granted SpaceX conditional approval Nov. 26 to use Starlink broadband satellites to keep T-Mobile smartphone users connected in cellular dead zones across the United States.
- Slingshot selected to design user experience for U.S. space traffic system SpaceNews · 26 Nov 2024 The company won a $5.3 million contract with options for four additional years, bringing the potential total value to $13.3 million
- NASA Awards Contract for NOAA’s Next-Generation Space Weather Sensors NASA · 26 Nov 2024 NASA, on behalf of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), has selected Johns Hopkins University’s Applied Physics Laboratory of Laurel, Maryland, to build the Suprathermal Ion Sensors for the Lagrang...
- NASA, USAID Invite Media to Launch of New SERVIR Central America Hub NASA · 26 Nov 2024 NASA and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) invite media to the official launch celebration of the new SERVIR Central America regional hub, located in Costa Rica, on Tuesday, Dec. 3, at 11 a.m. EST. Th...
- Selfie Time with Astronaut Victor Glover NASA · 26 Nov 2024 Employees at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida and NASA astronaut Victor Glover (right) happily snap a photo of themselves during a visit on Nov. 8, 2024. The employees are part of the agency’s Exploration Ground Sy...
- NASA AI, Open Science Advance Natural Disaster Research and Recovery NASA · 26 Nov 2024 By Lauren Perkins When you think of NASA, disasters such as hurricanes may not be the first thing to come to mind, but several NASA programs are building tools and advancing science to help communities make more informed...
- Discovery Alert: a ‘Hot Neptune’ in a Tight Orbit NASA · 26 Nov 2024 By Grace Jacobs Corban The Discovery A Neptune-sized planet, TOI-3261 b, makes a scorchingly close orbit around its host star. Only the fourth object of its kind ever found, the planet could reveal clues as to how planet...