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Watch the replay of the media information session to hear about further transformation measures and ambitious, new ideas for space exploration following ESA's 315th Council, taking place in the freshly renovated ESA HQ Nikis building in Paris.

ESA Director General Josef Aschbacher and ESA Council Chair Anna Rathsman will cover the following topics: the implementation steps of the results of CM22, including the transformation of ESA to be fit for the future, the Space Summit planned for November 2023, as well as the public release of certain official ESA documents. Moreover, the final report and recommendations of the

Munich, Germany (SPX) Mar 23, 2023
Using ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT), two teams of astronomers have observed the aftermath of the collision between NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft and the asteroid Dimorphos. The controlled impact was a test of planetary defence, but also gave astronomers a unique opportunity to learn more about the asteroid's composition from the expelled material. On 26 Septe

Berkeley CA (SPX) Mar 23, 2023
In 2017, a mysterious comet dubbed 'Oumuamua fired the imaginations of scientists and the public alike. It was the first known visitor from outside our solar system, it had no bright coma or dust tail, like most comets, and a peculiar shape - something between a cigar and a pancake - and its small size more befitted an asteroid than a comet. But the fact that it was accelerating away from

Human Lander Challenge
Huntsville AL (SPX) Mar 23, 2023 As NASA and industry partners develop new human landing systems to transport astronauts from lunar orbit to the Moon's surface and back as part of Artemis, the agency is asking university students to investigate solutions to one particularly dusty aspect of landing spacecraft on the lunar surface. NASA's new Human Lander Challenge invites college students

Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 21, 2023
Monday's planned drive positioned Curiosity with a new workspace to investigate. We have left the Marker Band, with Natalie's blog nicely summarizing our campaign there. As a physicist and spectroscopist by training, I find myself looking more at the analytical data, in particular X-ray fluorescence data, acquired on rocks, than the rocks themselves. But there was something about the primary roc

Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Mar 23, 2023
Following enormous collisions, such as asteroid impacts, some amount of material from an impacted world may be ejected into space. This material can travel vast distances and for extremely long periods of time. In theory this material could contain direct or indirect signs of life from the host world, such as fossils of microorganisms. And this material could be detectable by humans in the near

Beijing (XNA) Mar 23, 2023
China launched a Kuaizhou 1A carrier rocket on Wednesday afternoon at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in the country's northwestern desert, placing four meteorological satellites in orbit, according to China Aerospace Science and Industry Corp. The State-owned company said in a release that the solid-propellant rocket blasted off at 5:09 pm from its launch vehicle and then placed four

Adelaide, Australia (SPX) Mar 23, 2023
Metaspectral, a remote sensing software company advancing computer vision using deep learning and hyperspectral imagery, is announcing that it has been selected to join Venture Catalyst Space. Venture Catalyst Space is a leading commercial space accelerator and incubator program delivered by the University of South Australia's Innovation and Collaboration Centre (ICC) and is funded by the

Washington DC (SPX) Mar 21, 2023
Arkisys and partners to demonstrate building and assembling a satellite in orbit on the Port The U.S. Space Force awarded a $1.6 million contract to Arkisys to demonstrate robotic satellite assembly. Under a SpaceWERX Small Business Innovation Research contract, Arkisys and its partners, Novawurks, Motiv Space Systems, Qediq, iBoss, and Texas A and M University will demonstrate how t