The health challenges astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams face after 9 months in space
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Week in images: 17-21 March 2025
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Week in images: 17-21 March 2025
Discover our week through the lens
Andrea Patassa | Astronaut Reserve Member, Test Pilot, Spiderman? | ESA Explores #11
Friday, 21 March 2025 12:00
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Meet Andrea Patassa—test pilot, aviator, passionate outdoor adventurer, and Member of ESA’s Astronaut Reserve.
In this miniseries, we take you on a journey through the ESA Astronaut Reserve, diving into the first part of their Astronaut Reserve Training (ART) at the European Astronaut Centre (EAC) near Cologne, Germany. Our “ARTists” are immersing themselves in everything from ESA and the International Space Station programme to the European space industry and institutions. They’re gaining hands-on experience in technical skills like spacecraft systems and robotics, alongside human behaviour, scientific lessons, scuba diving, and survival training.
ESA’s Astronaut Reserve Training programme
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Inner space engineering Space Industries sets ambitious goals for satellite assembly, integration and testing
Friday, 21 March 2025 11:00
By 2030, Space Industries plans to assemble, integrate and test more than 220 satellites annually in a 3,000-square-meter clean room.
ESA releases strategy document that emphasizes autonomy
Friday, 21 March 2025 10:52
The European Space Agency has released a strategy for its next 15 years that includes a greater emphasis on autonomy amid broader geopolitical changes.
General Atomics marks completion of OTB satellite mission ahead of deorbit phase
Friday, 21 March 2025 08:38
General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS) announced the successful conclusion of its Orbital Test Bed (OTB) satellite's primary mission, which began with its June 2019 launch. The satellite has now transitioned into its projected 20-year deorbit trajectory.
"OTB began an exciting chapter for GA-EMS as this was the first launch of our GA-150 spacecraft hosting multiple payloads on a Microbial traces found in desert rocks hint at unknown life form
Friday, 21 March 2025 08:38
Unusual geological formations discovered in the deserts of Namibia, Oman, and Saudi Arabia suggest that an unidentified microorganism once inhabited marble and limestone in these regions. Researchers observed minute vertical tunnels within the rock, which appear to have been formed by biological activity rather than natural geological forces.
"We were surprised because these tubes are clea New high-definition pictures of the baby universe
Friday, 21 March 2025 08:38
New research by the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) collaboration has produced the clearest images yet of the universe's infancy - the earliest cosmic time yet accessible to humans. Measuring light that traveled for more than 13 billion years to reach a telescope high in the Chilean Andes, the new images reveal the universe when it was about 380,000 years old - the equivalent of hours-old baby ATLAS joins Viasat to enhance NASA's satellite ground services
Friday, 21 March 2025 08:38
ATLAS Space Operations has partnered with satellite communications leader Viasat, Inc. to deliver essential support for NASA's current and future missions. Viasat, among the initial group of four firms awarded Task Orders under NASA's Near Space Network (NSN) Services contract, will deploy its Real-Time Earth (RTE) network globally to boost NASA's Direct-to-Earth (DTE) communications capabilitie From Contract to Orbit in Record Time for OroraTech Satellite Deployment
Friday, 21 March 2025 08:38
Rocket Lab USA, Inc. (Nasdaq: RKLB) ("Rocket Lab" or "the Company"), an established leader in space systems and launch solutions, has confirmed the rapid scheduling of an Electron mission for OroraTech, a Germany-based specialist in wildfire detection and monitoring technologies.
The mission, titled "Finding Hot Wildfires Near You," is slated for liftoff during a window beginning March 27t New DESI results strengthen hints that dark energy may evolve
Friday, 21 March 2025 08:38
The discovery of dark energy, nearly 30 years ago, was already the biggest surprise of my scientific lifetime," said David Weinberg, a professor of astronomy at Ohio State who also contributed to the DESI analysis. "These new measurements offer the strongest evidence so far that dark energy evolves, which would be another mind-blowing change to our understanding of how the universe works." Oxygen detected in most distant galaxy: 'astonished' astronomers
Friday, 21 March 2025 08:38
Oxygen has been detected in the most distant galaxy ever discovered, surprised astronomers said Thursday, offering further evidence that stars in the early universe matured far quicker than had been thought possible.
The galaxy JADES-GS-z14-0, which was discovered by the James Webb Space Telescope last year, is so far away that its light took 13.4 billion years to reach Earth.
This means A new wave of mini satellites to monitor the high energy universe
Friday, 21 March 2025 08:38
The H.E.R.M.E.S. Constellation, operated by the Italian Space Agency (ASI), successfully embarked on its pathfinder mission following a launch aboard SpaceX's Transporter 13 mission. Lift-off occurred at 7:43 AM Italian time from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, with the constellation's six CubeSats secured aboard an ION release platform developed by Italian aerospace firm D-Orbit and