Week in images: 27-31 March 2023
Friday, 31 March 2023 12:05
Week in images: 27-31 March 2023
Discover our week through the lens
The Making of Juice – Episode 10.3
Friday, 31 March 2023 12:00
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The Making of Juice series takes the viewer behind the scenes of the European space industry, space technology and planetary science communities around ESA’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) mission.
Juice has a state-of-the-art science payload comprising remote sensing, geophysical and in situ instruments. This episode focuses on the geophysics instruments, which will explore the moons’ surface and subsurface, probe the atmospheres of Jupiter and its moons, and measure their gravity fields.
The GAnymede Laser Altimeter (GALA) will study the tidal deformation of Ganymede and the topography of the surfaces of the icy moons. The Radar for Icy Moons
Shaun the Sheep is baaa-ck
Friday, 31 March 2023 11:41
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Shaun the Sheep is baaa-ck South Korea sets record space budget to bolster industry, develop new rocket
Friday, 31 March 2023 11:28
Astra says Rocket 4 development on schedule for late 2023 first flight
Friday, 31 March 2023 11:09
Astra is still planning to conduct a first launch of its Rocket 4 vehicle before the end of the year as it scales up production of spacecraft electric propulsion systems.
GENESIS of a new Earth: join ESA’s Earth measurement mission
Friday, 31 March 2023 10:41
The idea behind ESA’s GENESIS mission is simple: a fixed framework is needed to chart the relative positions of locations across our planet, and satellites in orbit serve as the foundation of this framework. Fix a satellite’s own position in space accurately enough and you can measure Earth under it much more precisely too.
Do you need to test your new satellite technology in space? ESA and the EU are ready to help with flight ticket opportunities
Friday, 31 March 2023 10:30
The European Commission and the European Space Agency are jointly offering flight ticket opportunities for European companies or organisations to co-fund the launch services to test your new satellite technologies in space.
Inflatable fuel tank offers extra space for space
Friday, 31 March 2023 10:22
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Inflatable fuel tank offers extra space for space ESA hosts Belgian astronauts and State Secretary for Science
Friday, 31 March 2023 10:15
The flag of Belgium flew proudly over ESA’s technical heart in the Netherlands as ESTEC was honoured with a visit by Thomas Dermine, Belgium’s State Secretary for Science Policy, Recovery Program and Strategic Investments, accompanied by new Belgian astronaut Raphaël Liégeois.
Momentus successfully test-fires thruster on Vigoride-5
Friday, 31 March 2023 10:07
n-space transportation company Momentus announced March 31 it has successfully started tests of the propulsion system on its Vigoride tug launched earlier this year.
New insights into how cells respond to altered gravity experienced in space
Friday, 31 March 2023 09:55
A new study has revealed insights into how cells sense and respond to the weightlessness experienced in space. The information could be useful for keeping astronauts healthy on future space missions.
The gravity conditions in space, known as microgravity, trigger a unique set of cellular stress responses. In the new work, researchers found that the protein modifier SUMO plays a key role in New paper investigates exoplanet climates
Friday, 31 March 2023 09:55
Inspired by the Milankovitch cycles that play a role in Earth's climate over time, new research at Florida Tech examines how these recurring orbital movements may affect the climate of exoplanets.
"Sporadic Spin-Orbit Variations in Compact Multi-planet Systems and their Influence on Exoplanet Climate," a study by Florida Tech exoplanetary scientist and astrobiologist Howard Chen and resear China's Hyperspectral Multifunctional Observation Satellite release first public images
Friday, 31 March 2023 09:55
The China National Space Administration published the first images taken by an advanced Chinese Earth-observation satellite on Tuesday afternoon.
The 14 images were taken by the world-class apparatus on the Hyperspectral Multifunctional Observation Satellite, including a wide thermal infrared imager and an advanced hyper-spectral imager. They will help scientists track greenhouse gases suc Israel launches new spy satellite: defence ministry
Friday, 31 March 2023 09:55
Israel launched a new spy satellite with advanced imaging capabilities early on Wednesday, the defence ministry said.
The Ofek-13 military satellite was launched into orbit at 02:10 am (2310 GMT) from a site in central Israel, the ministry said.
"We will continue to prove that even the sky isn't the limit for the Israeli defence establishment and that we continue to enhance its capabil Boeing pushes Starliner test flight to July
Friday, 31 March 2023 09:55
Boeing said it was now targeting July 21 as the earliest window for its first manned Starliner flight to the International Space Station, delaying the liftoff by several months.
Boeing and NASA said Wednesday that additional time was needed to "close out verification and validation work prior to the systems first flight with crew on board" the CST-100 Starliner spacecraft for the flight