Copernical Team
EarthCARE goes live with data now available to all
With ESA’s EarthCARE satellite and four measuring instruments all working extremely well and fully commissioned, the mission’s ‘first level’ data stream is now freely available.
By combining data from all four instruments, scientists ultimately aim to address a critical Earth science question: how do clouds and aerosols affect the heating and cooling of our atmosphere?
Starship-7 set for Thursday afternoon launch
Elon Musk's SpaceX on Wednesday pushed back its latest orbital flight test of Starship, the colossal prototype rocket the company hopes will help humans colonize Mars. "Due to weather, we're now targeting Thursday, January 16 for Starship's seventh flight test," the company said on X. A 60-minute launch window from the company's Starbase in Boca Chica, Texas, will open at 4:00 pm Central
India achieves 'historic' space docking mission
India docked two satellites in space Thursday, a key milestone for the country's dreams of a space station and manned Moon mission, the space agency said. The satellites, weighing 220 kilograms (485 pounds) each, blasted off in December on a single rocket from India's Sriharikota launch site. Later they separated. The two satellites were manoeuvred back together on Thursday in a "precisi
Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket blasts off in first launch, reaches orbit
Blue Origin, the space company founded by billionaire Jeff Bezos, launched its massive New Glenn rocket for the first time early Thursday, a livestream of the blastoff showed. The rocket, whose inaugural mission had been delayed by several years, blasted of at 2:03 am (0703 GMT) from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Base in the US state of Florida, the webcast showed. The mission is seen a
BlackSky wins US Space Force contracts for tactical surveillance and tracking missions
BlackSky Technology Inc. (NYSE: BKSY) has secured several rapid procurement contracts through the U.S. Space Force's Global Data Marketplace (GDM), emphasizing its advanced analytics services in support of Tactical Surveillance, Reconnaissance, and Tracking (TacSRT) missions. "One year in operation, this novel marketplace increases speed and accessibility to BlackSky's reliable high-cadenc
BlackSky secures extended contract with NRO for advanced Gen-2 imagery services
BlackSky Technology Inc. (NYSE: BKSY) has announced a one-year extension of its Electro-Optical Commercial Layer (EOCL) contract with the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO). The extension covers subscription-based high-frequency, low-latency Gen-2 imagery services and will include enhancements to BlackSky's ground architecture to improve image search functionality, operational utility, and rea
Engineering quantum entanglement at the nanoscale
Physicists have spent more than a century measuring and making sense of the strange ways that photons, electrons, and other subatomic particles interact at extremely small scales. Engineers have spent decades figuring out how to take advantage of these phenomena to create new technologies. In one such phenomenon, called quantum entanglement, pairs of photons
Blue Origin could launch orbital rocket Thursday or Friday
Blue Origin, the space company founded by billionaire Jeff Bezos, could attempt its first orbital launch Thursday morning, weather permitting, a spokesperson said. The massive New Glenn rocket is seen as critical to Blue Origin's efforts to compete with Elon Musk's SpaceX, which dominates the commercial space industry. But its inaugural mission has been delayed by several years. Att
SpaceX delays latest Starship megarocket test to Thursday
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Proba-3 becomes two: Satellites successfully separate
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