Mapping our human footprint from space
Thursday, 11 November 2021 12:05
The world’s population is expected to reach 9.7 billion in 2050, according to the UN Department of Economics and Social Affairs. Urban areas are already home to 55% of the world’s population and that figure is expected to grow to 68% by 2050. Rapid and unplanned urbanisation, combined with the challenges brought by climate change, can lead to an increase in air pollution, higher vulnerability to disasters, as well as issues related to the management of resources such as water, raw materials and energy.
To improve the understanding of current trends in global urbanisation, ESA and the German Aerospace Center (DLR),
Astroscale and New Zealand to partner on space sustainability projects
Thursday, 11 November 2021 11:28
Astroscale signed an agreement with the government of New Zealand Nov. 10 to study advanced concepts for orbital debris removal.
Watch live: Crew-3 arrive at International Space Station
Thursday, 11 November 2021 10:01
Coverage of ESA astronaut Matthias’s Maurer’s journey to the International Space Station continues, with docking scheduled for 00:10 GMT/ 01:10 CET Friday 12 November and streaming live on ESA Web TV 2.
Matthias and his NASA astronaut crew mates Raja Chari, Tom Marshburn and Kayla Barron were launched in a SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft called Endurance from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, USA, at 02:03 GMT/03:03 CET Thursday 11 November.
Innovative space data service starts to take shape
Thursday, 11 November 2021 09:00
Plans to create a network of satellites that supply data from space to improve life on Earth have entered a new phase.
Off-Earth manufacturing symposium: how to build a new home in space
Thursday, 11 November 2021 08:53
For long-term stays on the Moon and Mars, we would need to use local materials to build on location. Off-Earth manufacturing could be used to construct infrastructure that meets needs such as shielding crews and equipment from radiation, providing food and water, and generating electricity.
ESA acts to protect governmental data
Thursday, 11 November 2021 08:31
Keeping information secure is becoming ever more important in today’s interconnected digital world.
Orbital Assembly Corporation promote space hotels in LEO for investment
Thursday, 11 November 2021 08:12
Orbital Assembly Corporation (OAC) a company focused on becoming the leading large-scale space construction company enabling humanity to work, play and thrive in the space ecosystem announces its crowdfunding equity offering (Regulation CF). OAC plans to use the funding to advance its design and construction teams, marketing initiatives and revenue generating goals around space habitation and co Arianespace Vega to launch 3 EO sats for French military
Thursday, 11 November 2021 08:12
The 12th launch by Arianespace in 2021, the Vega light launcher will lift off, for the third time this year, from the Guiana Space Center in Kourou, French Guiana, on November 16, 2021. It will carry on board three CERES satellites for the French Ministry of the Armed Forces.
The CERES program comprises three satellites flying in formation in low Earth orbit (LEO). Equipped with high-perfo China to share its Beidou expertise
Thursday, 11 November 2021 08:12
China and Africa will strengthen their communication and cooperation in promoting and using the Beidou Navigation Satellite System, according to participants at an international forum that was held in Beijing on Friday.
Officials, industry leaders and researchers from China, several African nations and the African Union shared their thoughts at the First China-Africa Beidou System Cooperat Rocket Lab appoints Andrew Bunker as VP Government Operations and Business Strategy
Thursday, 11 November 2021 08:12
Rocket Lab USA, Inc. has announced the appointment of Andrew Bunker to the role of Vice President of Government Operations and Business Strategy, effective November 8, 2021. Mr. Bunker will be primarily responsible for the development and execution of company's federal, state, and local government strategy.
Mr. Bunker will also play a leading role in strengthening Rocket Lab's engagement w Sols 3292-3293: Celebrating Zechstein with a Science Feast
Thursday, 11 November 2021 08:12
We did it! Yet another successful hole has been drilled in Mars! Welcome to the family, "Zechstein!"
Tosol, Curiosity is planning for a TON of cool science including a ChemCam vertical raster in our new drill hole (more about this below), CheMin analysis of the mineralogy of this drill sample, and several image mosaics!
Mosaics are a common activity with our mission, and we have SO m Meet VMS - the briefcase-sized chemistry lab headed to Venus
Thursday, 11 November 2021 08:12
Short for Venus Mass Spectrometer, VMS is one of five instruments aboard the DAVINCI descent probe. Launching in 2029, DAVINCI will be the first US probe mission to enter Venus' atmosphere in over 40 years. The goal of the mission is to explore Venus to determine if it was habitable, and to understand how it ended up as inhospitable as it did.
The probe will descend for around one hour thr Tread lightly: 'Eggshell planets' possible around other stars
Thursday, 11 November 2021 08:12
Strange 'eggshell planets' are among the rich variety of exoplanets possible, according to a study from Washington University in St. Louis. These rocky worlds have an ultra-thin outer brittle layer and little to no topography. Such worlds are unlikely to have plate tectonics, raising questions as to their habitability.
Only a small subset of extrasolar planets are likely eggshell planets. Ball Aerospace delivers NASA X-Ray Observatory to KSC for December launch
Thursday, 11 November 2021 08:12
NASA's Imaging X-Ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE), built by Ball Aerospace, safely arrived Friday at Cape Canaveral in Fla. A collaboration between Ball, NASA, and the Italian Space Agency (ASI), IXPE is an astrophysics observatory set to launch from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in December.
Once on orbit, IXPE will measure the polarization of cosmic X-rays to improve our understanding of th Eagles collaborate in unique high-altitude simulation training
Thursday, 11 November 2021 08:12
The first time senior Olivia Siu experienced hypoxia - a condition caused by lack of oxygen, sometimes suffered by pilots - she thought she was functioning fairly well. She was in the High-Altitude Lab (HAL) at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, focusing on folding a paper boat.
Despite her low oxygen intake, her dexterity was perfect, and each crease of her creation was exact. There wa