The first astronaut—or astronauts—with a physical disability could be announced as soon as Wednesday, according to the European Space Agency.
Space Exploration
Nov 22, 2022
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At the Thales Alenia Space test facility in Cannes, France, the massive door of the thermal vacuum chamber was opened after a month of rigorous testing of ESA's Euclid mission to explore the dark universe.
Astronomy
Nov 11, 2022
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NASA has delivered a retroreflector array to ESA that will allow the Lunar Pathfinder mission to be pinpointed by laser ranging stations back on Earth as it orbits the moon. Such centimeter level laser measurements will serve ...
Space Exploration
Nov 10, 2022
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Going to the moon was the first step. Staying there is the next ambition.
Space Exploration
Nov 10, 2022
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Galileo has grown to become Europe's single largest satellite constellation, and the world's most accurate satellite navigation system, delivering meter-level positioning to more than 3.5 billion users around the globe.
Space Exploration
Nov 4, 2022
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This 10-cm box will make history as the smallest radar instrument to be flown in space—and the very first radar to probe the interior of an asteroid. Its target? The Dimorphos asteroid, which on the night of 26 September ...
Space Exploration
Oct 31, 2022
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After months of effort, astronomers have succeeded in capturing the momentary shadow cast by the Didymos asteroid, from tens of million kilometers away as it passed in front of far-distant stars—a feat of observation only ...
Astronomy
Oct 20, 2022
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The European Space Agency announced Thursday it will use SpaceX's Falcon 9 rockets to launch two scientific missions because of delays to its own Ariane 6 rocket and the cancellation of flights on Russia's Soyuz launchers.
Space Exploration
Oct 20, 2022
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The final pre-launch preparations for the first Meteosat Third Generation (MTG) satellite are under way. The first satellite, called MTG-I1, built by a European industrial consortium led by Thales Alenia Space carries two ...
Planetary Sciences
Sep 30, 2022
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Using data from ESA's Gaia satellite, astronomers from Taiwan and India have inspected a galactic open cluster known as Berkeley 27. Results of the study, published September 22 on the arXiv pre-print repository, yield essential ...
