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Watch media session from ESA's 315th Council

Wednesday, 22 March 2023 06:49
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Ticket to space

Join us on 23 March to hear about ambitious new ideas for space exploration from ESA's 315th Council, taking place in the freshly renovated ESA HQ Mario Nikis building in Paris.

Teens send experiments out of this world

Wednesday, 22 March 2023 03:01
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From the time she was a child, Anna-Sophia Boguraev has had her eye on space. When she was 4, she built a cardboard rocket ship.

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Satellite manufacturer Terran Orbital is planning another expansion of its factory in Southern California to accommodate an anticipated increase in government and commercial orders.

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Frontier Aerospace raised $10 million in Series A funding from AEI HorizonX.

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NASA seeks student ideas for moon landing dust control
Human Lander Challenge logo overlaid on an artist's illustration of an Artemis astronaut looking out at the lunar surface. Credit: NASA

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 to explore ways to manage or prevent the cloud of dust a stirs up when using rocket engines to land on unprepared surfaces like the moon. This effect is called plume surface interaction and can increase risks caused by lunar dust on future human missions.

"The moon is covered with granular, rocky material called , which can be lifted from the surface by rocket engines during landing and ascent.

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The U.S. Air Force plans to use startup Varda Space Industries’ reentry capsules as hypersonic flight test platforms

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Ultra-lightweight multifunctional space skin created to withstand the extreme conditions in space 
Challenges associated with structural materials selection for space structures.(A) Schematic illustration with environmental effects for orbiting satellites, aircrafts, and planetary science missions. (B) Image of the Sentinel-5 optical support carbon fiber reinforced polymer (CFRP) structure. (C) Comparison of simplified selection matrix for structural satellite components with superlattice nano-barrier–enhanced (SNBE)–CFRP (this work). Credit: Science Advances (2023). DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.add6947

A new nanobarrier coating could help protect ultra-lightweight carbon composite materials from extreme conditions in space, according to a study from the University of Surrey and Airbus Defence and Space.

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Gaia mapping the stars of the Milky Way

ESA's Gaia mission has been collecting data on millions of space objects like stars and asteroids to build an extensive cosmic record. Now, to take it up a notch, it needs your eyes.

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A white rocket lifts off from a seaside launch site in Brazil.

South Korean rocket startup Innospace successfully launched a suborbital rocket from Brazil over the weekend, demonstrating a hybrid motor it plans to scale up into a small orbital launch vehicle.

Japanese lander enters lunar orbit

Tuesday, 21 March 2023 11:48
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A lunar lander developed by Japanese company ispace has entered orbit around the moon, setting up a lunar landing attempt by the end of April.

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The U.S. Space Force is exploring the creation of a space equivalent of the civil reserve air fleet, or CRAF, a program the Pentagon conceived 70 years ago to gain access to commercial airlift capacity in an emergency.

ESA Impact – March 2023 Council edition

Tuesday, 21 March 2023 09:30
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ESA Impact – March 2023 Council edition

Welcome to the March Council edition of ESA Impact, an interactive showcase of the best images and videos since the last Council meeting

Journey through Jezero

Tuesday, 21 March 2023 09:00
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Explore the fascinating landing site of NASA’s Perseverance rover in this fly-through video, featuring new views of Jezero crater and its surroundings from ESA’s Mars Express and NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.

The video begins by panning around Jezero crater, which can be seen in the centre background surrounded by textured and cratered terrain. The crater moves into the foreground roughly halfway through, when an outflow channel can be seen snaking away from the crater wall and towards the camera perspective. Two inflow channels (Neretva Vallis and Sava Vallis, found on the western-northwestern rim of Jezero) then become visible;

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Edinburgh UK (SPX) Mar 17, 2023
Leading edge technology has uncovered secrets about a world-renowned fossil hoard that could offer vital clues about early life on earth. Researchers who analysed the 400 million-year-old-cache, found in rural north-east Scotland, say their findings reveal better preservation of the fossils at a molecular level than was previously anticipated. Fresh scrutiny of the exquisitely preser
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Los Angeles CA (SPX) Mar 16, 2023
Silvus Technologies has launched Spectrum Dominance, an expansive suite of Low Probability of Intercept/Low Probability of Detection (LPI/LPD) and Anti-Jamming (AJ) capabilities that provide secure and Electronic Warfare (EW) resilient mesh network communications at the tactical edge. Developed in concert with the U.S. Army's C5ISR Center, Silvus' Spectrum Dominance enables StreamCaster MANET ra
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