Artist's view of Europe's launcher family from 2024 onwards
Wednesday, 05 February 2025 07:00
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Artist's view of Europe's launcher family from 2024 onwards Scientists spot tiny Sun jets driving fast and slow solar wind
Wednesday, 05 February 2025 07:00
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Back in 2023, we reported on Solar Orbiter’s discovery of tiny jets near the Sun’s south pole that could be powering the solar wind. The team behind this research has now used even more data from the European Space Agency’s prolific solar mission to confirm that these jets exist all over dark patches in the Sun’s atmosphere, and that they really are a source of not only fast but also slow solar wind.
The newfound jets can be seen in this sped-up video as hair-like wisps that flash very briefly, for example within the circled regions of the
ESA and Finland pave the way towards a supersite for Earth observation
Tuesday, 04 February 2025 14:00
Today, ESA, the Finnish government and the Finnish Meteorological Institute took the initial steps towards establishing a ‘supersite’ for Earth observation calibration and validation in Sodankylä in Finnish Lapland.
Envisaged as a joint investment, this world-class site would bring benefits to both ESA, by helping to further ensure satellites deliver accurate data over high latitude environments, and to Finland by providing Finnish businesses with new opportunities to develop and test environmental sensors and technology.
ESA’s Gaia finds a mysterious planet and brown dwarf
Tuesday, 04 February 2025 13:00
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Using data from the European Space Agency’s Gaia mission, scientists have found a huge exoplanet and a brown dwarf. This is the first time a planet has been uniquely discovered by Gaia’s ability to sense the gravitational tug or ‘wobble’ the planet induces on a star. Both the planet and brown dwarf are orbiting low-mass stars, a scenario thought to be extremely rare.
Meteor collision shakes Mars recorded by InSight
Tuesday, 04 February 2025 10:37
A space rock crashed into the martian surface in February 2021, generating seismic waves that extended 1640 km to reach NASA's InSight lander. The collision carved out a crater about 21 m wide and disturbed roughly 1400 m. ESA's ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO), through its Colour and Stereo Surface Imaging System (CaSSIS), captured the explosive moment.
Marsquakes, the martian counterparts Scientists measure Earth's cosmic detectability
Tuesday, 04 February 2025 10:37
A team of researchers led by Dr. Sofia Sheikh from the SETI Institute, in collaboration with the Characterizing Atmospheric Technosignatures project and the Penn State Extraterrestrial Intelligence Center, investigated whether an extraterrestrial society with technology akin to ours might detect Earth and the evidence of humanity. They sought to identify which signals would be visible and how fa Space experiment aims to reveal hidden cosmic mass
Tuesday, 04 February 2025 10:37
A space-based effort could soon uncover the nature of dark matter, one of the universe's most perplexing forces. Although invisible, this substance composes nearly 85 percent of cosmic mass, challenging scientists for decades.
Now, a group at the University of Southampton has outlined a strategy to track dark matter by measuring faint disturbances in zero gravity. Researchers plan to fire Astroscale second generation docking plate gains flight heritage
Tuesday, 04 February 2025 10:37
Astroscale Limited has reached a critical threshold with the first in-space deployment of its second-generation (Gen 2) docking plate. This hardware, now traveling aboard SpaceX's Transporter-12 rideshare mission that launched on Jan 14, 2025, sets the stage for more robust satellite servicing capabilities.
Integrated on an Astro Digital Corvus-XL bus, the Gen 2 docking plate showcases for EdgeCortix unveils SAKURA-I with proven radiation immunity for orbital and lunar ventures
Tuesday, 04 February 2025 10:37
EdgeCortix(R) Inc., a leading fabless semiconductor provider focused on low-power Artificial Intelligence (AI) computation at the edge, reports that its SAKURA-I AI Accelerator has shown strong radiation endurance and is primed for space missions in Earth orbit and on the lunar surface. NASA's Electronic Parts and Packaging Program (NEPP) performed two rounds of testing on EdgeCortix(R) Inc.'s h Orbex lands D-Orbit deal prior to first mission this year
Tuesday, 04 February 2025 10:37
UK-based launch services provider Orbex has finalized a new commercial agreement with D-Orbit, a leading name in space transportation and logistics. This move highlights Orbex's advancing role in the industry as it prepares for its first commercial launch later this year.
Under the arrangement, D-Orbit will secure two launch opportunities on Orbex Prime, the company's eco-conscious micro-l UK Gains Advanced Space Simulation Facility from Amentum
Tuesday, 04 February 2025 10:37
Amentum (NYSE: AMTM) has been chosen to equip the United Kingdom with specialized technology that replicates space-like conditions to optimize microgravity procedures and strengthen mission safety.
Its robotics team will craft an in-space servicing, assembly, and manufacturing gravity offload platform intended for those who build and operate satellites and spacecraft.
Following a com Vodafone utilizes US satellite array for milestone mobile call
Tuesday, 04 February 2025 10:37
Vodafone, a leading British telecommunications company, has completed the nation's first satellite video call using a standard mobile phone. The achievement aims to tackle persistent "dead zones" across remote regions where conventional cell tower signals are either weak or nonexistent.
On Wednesday, engineers placed the space-based call from a mountainside in west Wales using Android devi Astranis inks fresh Falcon 9 deal
Tuesday, 04 February 2025 10:37
Astranis enthusiastically reveals it has finalized a new agreement with SpaceX for an additional Falcon 9 mission carrying five MicroGEO satellites before the end of this year. These advanced satellites will be placed in Geostationary Orbit (GEO) to deliver broadband connectivity to users worldwide, including major operators such as Thaicom in Thailand and internet providers like APCO in Mexico, Telescoping from the moon
Tuesday, 04 February 2025 10:37
Before Neil Armstrong took his "giant leap for mankind," NASA staged a series of missions that paved the way for his team's successful Apollo 11 moon landing-from a flight that tested the lunar module in low Earth orbit to a dress rehearsal voyage that tested all aspects of the mission except for the actual landing.
Today, with its ambitious Artemis campaign, the iconic space agency has se