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Hydrogen nuclei experiment sharpens view of quarks inside matter
The lightest element in the universe is helping nuclear physicists probe the inner structure of matter with new precision. At the U.S. Department of Energy's Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, researchers have compared two isotopes of hydrogen to gain sharper insight into how quarks and gluons are arranged inside protons and neutrons.
Hydrogen sits at the top of the Periodic T Stratoship alliance charts staged path for smallsat payloads
Stratoship has signed a memorandum of understanding with Queensland based companies Orbit2Orbit and Sunburnt Space Co to build a staged lab to space pathway for small satellite payloads.
The agreement establishes a commercial framework that links laboratory development, stratospheric testing, very low Earth orbit and orbital missions into a coherent progression for customers.
Under t Europe’s next-generation weather satellite sends back first images
The first images from the Meteosat Third Generation-Sounder satellite have been shared at the European Space Conference in Brussels, showing how the mission will provide data on temperature and humidity, for more accurate weather forecasting over Europe and northern Africa.
Proposed new mission will create artificial solar eclipses in space
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Microgravity rewires microbial metabolism, limiting space-based manufacturing efficiency
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New insight into economic outcomes of the US space race
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Flight engineers give NASA's Dragonfly lift
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Crawling, gripping and floating above ESA’s flat floor
Last autumn, the European Space Agency’s Orbital Robotics Laboratory hosted three student teams from universities across Europe. After being selected to join the ESA Academy Experiments programme, the students were invited to carry out the experimental part of their research projects in the agency’s test facilities with support and guidance from experts.
ESA’s Biomass goes live with data now open to all
The European Space Agency’s innovative Biomass satellite is now fully commissioned, opening free access to a powerful new stream of data that promise a step change in our understanding of forest dynamics and their role in regulating the global carbon cycle.
Artemis II rollout
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On 17 January, the Artemis II Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft were rolled out from the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, to Launch Pad 39B. The 6.5-km journey took around 12 hours and was carried out using NASA's crawler-transporter, which has been moving rockets to launch pads for over 50 years.
At the top of the rocket sits the Orion spacecraft, bearing the ESA and NASA logo and designed to carry four astronauts on a 10-day lunar flyby mission. Artemis II will be the first crewed flight of the Artemis programme
