330th ESA Council: Media information session
Wednesday, 18 December 2024 13:00
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Watch the replay of the media information session in which ESA Director General Josef Aschbacher and ESA Council Chair Renato Krpoun (CH) update journalists on the key decisions taken at the ESA Council meeting, held at ESA Headquarters in Paris on 17 and 18 December 2024.
Navigating the legal landscape of space mining: interpreting international space law
Wednesday, 18 December 2024 13:00
SpaceX completes 3 rocket launches, 1 Dragon landing in 22 hours
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A fall of CubeSats
Wednesday, 18 December 2024 09:40
Four pioneering ESA Technology CubeSats reentered Earth’s atmosphere over the last few months. Each was only about the size of a shoebox or smaller, but despite their diminutive dimensions the missions left an outsize legacy in terms of demonstrating innovative space technology, industrial capacity building and scientific data return.
Dreaming of a white Christmas – on Mars
Wednesday, 18 December 2024 09:00
Step into the holidays with this picturesque ‘winter wonderland’ scene at the south pole of Mars, captured by ESA’s Mars Express.
Raytheon tests Ursa Major’s rocket motor in U.S. Army missile flight
Wednesday, 18 December 2024 08:00
NASA again delays return of astronauts stranded on space station
Wednesday, 18 December 2024 04:50
Two US astronauts stranded for months on the International Space Station will remain there at least until late March, NASA said Tuesday as it announced another delay in the mission to bring them home.
Veteran astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams arrived at the ISS in June aboard Boeing's Starliner spacecraft, and were due to spend eight days on the orbiting laboratory.
But problems Trump-Musk alliance should boost 'space economy'
Wednesday, 18 December 2024 04:50
Next year could be a transformative one for U.S. space exploration, as the election of Donald Trump to the presidency and his close relationship with SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk promises to change the space paradigm.
The billionaire's influence over space policy, already strong under outgoing President Joe Biden, will most likely deepen in what many analysts believe will be a year of FAA issues License Authorization for SpaceX Starship Flight 7
Wednesday, 18 December 2024 04:50
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has issued a license modification permitting SpaceX to conduct multiple missions of its Starship/Super Heavy vehicle under the Flight 7 mission profile. The FAA confirmed that SpaceX met all safety, environmental, and licensing requirements necessary for this upcoming suborbital test flight.
"The FAA continues to increase efficiencies in our licens Japanese startup's space rocket launch fails
Wednesday, 18 December 2024 04:50
A space rocket built by a Japanese startup blasted off on Wednesday but was later seen spiralling downwards in the distance as the company said the launch attempt had failed.
It was the second attempt by Space One to become the country's first private firm to put a satellite into orbit, after the first try in March ended in a mid-air explosion.
This time its solid-fuel Kairos rocket had MIT spinout Commonwealth Fusion Systems unveils plans for the world's first fusion power plant
Wednesday, 18 December 2024 04:50
America is one step closer to tapping into a new and potentially limitless clean energy source today, with the announcement from MIT spinout Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS) that it plans to build the world's first grid-scale fusion power plant in Chesterfield County, Virginia.
The announcement is the latest milestone for the company, which has made groundbreaking progress toward harnessi All observables in nature measurable with a single unit of time
Wednesday, 18 December 2024 04:50
Brazilian researchers have introduced a thought-provoking perspective on a long-standing debate among physicists: how many fundamental constants are required to describe the universe? Their conclusion - just one, the "second" - could simplify how we understand physical measurements.
The study, published in Scientific Reports, was conducted by George Matsas and Vicente Pleitez from Sao Paul