The making of Juice: the film
Thursday, 23 November 2023 16:00
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One giant planet. Three icy moons. An eight-year journey. One special spacecraft.
Building a mission to Jupiter took years of planning and thousands of people. Now that Juice is finally en route to its destination, we go behind the scenes to discover the story of the making of Juice.
The film features exclusive interviews with scientists and engineers from across Europe, as well as backstage footage from the planning, testing and launch of this once-in-a-generation mission.
Follow the final three years of Juice’s life on Earth. Discover why the mission was named Juice, how teams working on the spacecraft handled
Ariane 6 mobile building rolling timelapse
Thursday, 23 November 2023 15:30
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On 23 November 2023 the Ariane 6 rocket test model at Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana was prepared for a combined hot-fire test to test its core stage and main engine for eight minutes of firing – the full duration of a launch.
The mobile building weighs 8200 000 kg – heavier than France's Eiffel Tower. Its platforms provide access to the rocket before a launch. It protects Ariane 6 until its doors are opened and is retracted before a launch or test. The mobile gantry stands on 16 bogies with eight wheels each and every wheel is
China conducts launch to test satellite internet capabilities
Thursday, 23 November 2023 14:29
Spire joins ESA's Third Party Mission Programme
Thursday, 23 November 2023 09:54
Spire joins ESA's Third Party Mission Programme
Astronauts assemble: reserve reunion
Thursday, 23 November 2023 09:06
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Members of the reserve of ESA's astronaut class of 2022 visit the European Astronaut Centre in Cologne. A satellite’s death spiral
Thursday, 23 November 2023 08:04
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A satellite’s death spiral California lawmakers ask NASA not to cut Mars budget
Thursday, 23 November 2023 06:36
A group of California lawmakers on Wednesday asked NASA and Administrator Bill Nelson to rethink the space agency's budget cuts that they believe will cost jobs and scientific advances.
In a letter to NASA, California's Democratic Sens. Alex Padilla and Laphonza Butler; Democratic Reps. Adam Schiff and Judy Chu and Republican Reps. Mike Garcia and Young Kim warned the proposed funding cuts Deformable Mirrors in Space: Key Technology to Directly Image Earth Twins
Thursday, 23 November 2023 06:36
Finding and studying Earth-like planets orbiting nearby stars is critical to understand whether we are alone in the universe. To study such planets and assess if they can sustain life, it is necessary to directly image them. However, these planets are difficult to observe, since light from the host star hides them with its glare. A coronagraph instrument can be used to remove the glare light fro SpaceX launches more Starlink satellites from Cape Canaveral
Thursday, 23 November 2023 06:36
SpaceX lofted 23 Starlink internet satellites into orbit from Cape Canaveral, Florida on Wednesday morning after pushing the launch back twice. This was the third Falcon 9 launch in just over 4 days and the latest in a series of Starlink launches for the company.
The Falcon 9 rocket rumbled into motion from the Cape's Space Complex 40 and lifted off at 2:47 a.m. EST amid a brilliant fie Sam Altman's return ushers in new era at OpenAI
Thursday, 23 November 2023 06:36
Sam Altman's shock return as chief executive of OpenAI late Tuesday - days after being sacked - caps a chaotic period that highlighted deep tensions at the heart of the Artificial Intelligence community.
The board that fired Altman from his role as CEO of the ChatGPT creator has been almost entirely replaced following a rebellion by employees, cementing his position at the helm of the firm Autonomous excavator creates 3D map of rocks to build 19-foot-tall wall
Thursday, 23 November 2023 06:36
An autonomous excavator developed by researchers at the Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich, Switzerland, has successfully constructed 19.6-foot-tall and 130-foot-long wall.
The excavator, named HEAP, scans rocks to determine their size, shape and center of gravity. An algorithm then determines the best location to place each rock.
"Using sensors, the excavator can au NASA awards $2.3 million to study growing food in lunar dust
Thursday, 23 November 2023 06:36
NASA has awarded $2.3 million to scientists to study how to grow vegetation in lunar soil as human exploration prepares to go beyond Earth's atmosphere, scientists said Tuesday.
Researchers say their priorities are advancing work that will grow organisms in lunar soil as part of the Thrive in DEep Space, or TIDES, program.
"The ultimate goal of the TIDES initiative is to enable l Dwarf galaxies use 10-million-year quiet period to churn out stars
Thursday, 23 November 2023 06:36
If you look at massive galaxies teeming with stars, you might be forgiven in thinking they are star factories, churning out brilliant balls of gas. But actually, less evolved dwarf galaxies have bigger regions of star factories, with higher rates of star formation.
Now, University of Michigan researchers have discovered the reason underlying this: These galaxies enjoy a 10-million-year del China’s Landspace aims to build a stainless steel rocket
Wednesday, 22 November 2023 22:08