Matthias Maurer during helicopter training
Thursday, 16 October 2025 13:44
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ESA astronauts Alexander Gerst, Matthias Maurer, Samantha Cristoforetti and Thomas Pesquet completed a helicopter training course with the German Bundeswehr, Germany's federal defence forces. They participated in a three-week training programme at the International Helicopter Training Centre in Bückeburg, Germany. The course included one week of simulator instruction followed by two weeks of practical flying in EC135 helicopters, with operations conducted over central Germany and in mountainous terrain in the German Alps.
Helicopter training offers a realistic analogue for the dynamics of planetary landings, requiring capabilities such as vertical take-off and landing, terrain-based decision-making, and high levels of coordination and
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Thursday, 16 October 2025 13:27
ECAPS Announces Breakthrough Fast-Start Thruster (FAST) Technology
Thursday, 16 October 2025 13:24
Thomas Pesquet during helicopter training
Thursday, 16 October 2025 13:05
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ESA astronauts Alexander Gerst, Matthias Maurer, Samantha Cristoforetti and Thomas Pesquet completed a helicopter training course with the German Bundeswehr, Germany's federal defence forces. They participated in a three-week training programme at the International Helicopter Training Centre in Bückeburg, Germany. The course included one week of simulator instruction followed by two weeks of practical flying in EC135 helicopters, with operations conducted over central Germany and in mountainous terrain in the German Alps.
Helicopter training offers a realistic analogue for the dynamics of planetary landings, requiring capabilities such as vertical take-off and landing, terrain-based decision-making, and high levels of coordination and
Samantha Cristoforetti during helicopter training
Thursday, 16 October 2025 13:01
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ESA astronauts Alexander Gerst, Matthias Maurer, Samantha Cristoforetti and Thomas Pesquet completed a helicopter training course with the German Bundeswehr, Germany's federal defence forces. They participated in a three-week training programme at the International Helicopter Training Centre in Bückeburg, Germany. The course included one week of simulator instruction followed by two weeks of practical flying in EC135 helicopters, with operations conducted over central Germany and in mountainous terrain in the German Alps.
Helicopter training offers a realistic analogue for the dynamics of planetary landings, requiring capabilities such as vertical take-off and landing, terrain-based decision-making, and high levels of coordination and
Alexander Gerst during helicopter training
Thursday, 16 October 2025 12:54
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ESA astronauts Alexander Gerst, Matthias Maurer, Samantha Cristoforetti and Thomas Pesquet completed a helicopter training course with the German Bundeswehr, Germany's federal defence forces. They participated in a three-week training programme at the International Helicopter Training Centre in Bückeburg, Germany. The course included one week of simulator instruction followed by two weeks of practical flying in EC135 helicopters, with operations conducted over central Germany and in mountainous terrain in the German Alps.
Helicopter training offers a realistic analogue for the dynamics of planetary landings, requiring capabilities such as vertical take-off and landing, terrain-based decision-making, and high levels of coordination and
Alexander Gerst and Matthias Maurer during helicopter training
Thursday, 16 October 2025 12:49
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ESA astronauts Alexander Gerst, Matthias Maurer, Samantha Cristoforetti and Thomas Pesquet completed a helicopter training course with the German Bundeswehr, Germany's federal defence forces. They participated in a three-week training programme at the International Helicopter Training Centre in Bückeburg, Germany. The course included one week of simulator instruction followed by two weeks of practical flying in EC135 helicopters, with operations conducted over central Germany and in mountainous terrain in the German Alps.
Helicopter training offers a realistic analogue for the dynamics of planetary landings, requiring capabilities such as vertical take-off and landing, terrain-based decision-making, and high levels of coordination and
Phoebus: keeping the smallest molecule in the Universe contained
Thursday, 16 October 2025 12:42
Spain celebrates ESA heritage with substantial plans for the future
Thursday, 16 October 2025 12:25
The European Space Agency's presence in Spain is set to be strengthened, while more than a dozen contracts with Spanish industry were signed on Thursday.
‘Space Armor’ to challenge traditional metal shielding on satellites
Thursday, 16 October 2025 12:00
The composite shielding designed to protect spacecraft from debris impact was developed by Atomic-6 under a U.S.
China launches 12th group of Guowang broadband satellites as rocket milestone highlights accelerating launch rate
Thursday, 16 October 2025 09:18
SpaceX launches 21 satellites for U.S. military from California
Thursday, 16 October 2025 07:12
SpaceX on Wednesday launched 21 satellites from California for the U.S. military's Space Development Agency.
The Falcon 9 rocket lifted off at 4:06 p.m. PDT from Vandenberg Space Force Base's Pad 4E. About 8 1/2 minutes later, the first stage landed on the drone ship Of Course I Still Love You in the Pacific Ocean. This booster was used seven times previously, including the first Tranch Real-time tracking of quantum uncertainty achieved using attosecond squeezed light
Thursday, 16 October 2025 07:12
Researchers have, for the first time, directly measured quantum uncertainty as it evolves in real time - an achievement that reshapes our understanding of one of the fundamental principles of quantum mechanics.
A team led by Dr. Mohammed Th. Hassan of the University of Arizona, with collaborators from ICFO in Spain and Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat Munchen in Germany, accomplished this mi Listening for gravitational wave beats in pulsar timing data
Thursday, 16 October 2025 07:12
The rhythmic ticking of pulsars - neutron stars that beam radio pulses with atomic precision - could soon reveal subtle "beats" from gravitational waves passing through the galaxy. A new theoretical study by Hideki Asada and Shun Yamamoto of Hirosaki University suggests that ultra-low-frequency gravitational waves might create interference patterns detectable in pulsar timing array (PTA) observa