Image: NASA astronaut Kate Rubins poses next to a thriving radish crop growing inside the Advanced Plant Habitat in the International Space Station. Located in Europe’s Columbus module, the NASA experiment is the latest in the study of plants growing in microgravity. With plans to visit the Moon and Mars, future astronauts will need a […]
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3D print your own Mars rover with ExoMy
Europe’s Rosalind Franklin ExoMars rover has a younger ’sibling’ – ExoMy. The blueprints and software for this mini-version of the full-size Mars explorer are available for free so that anyone can 3D print, assemble and program their own ExoMy. To source
Turning Moon dust into oxygen
British engineers are fine-tuning a process that will be used to extract oxygen from lunar dust, leaving behind metal powders that could be 3D printed into construction materials for a Moon base. It could be an early step to establishing an extra-terrestrial oxygen extraction plant. This would help to enable exploration and sustain life on […]
Kiruna, Sweden
Image: Kiruna, the northernmost town in Sweden, is featured in this snowy image captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission. To source
Earth from Space: Kiruna
Video: 00:03:27 In this week’s edition of the Earth from Space programme, the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over Kiruna, the northernmost town in Sweden.See also Kiruna, Sweden to download the image. To source
Iceberg A-68A: hit or miss?
Image: An enormous iceberg, called A-68A, has made headlines over the past weeks as it drifts towards South Georgia in the Southern Ocean. New images show the berg is rotating and potentially drifting westwards. To source
How can space improve urban planning?
Innovative solutions to urban planning will be explored at an online seminar to be held on Thursday 26 November. To source
ESAIL’s first map of global shipping
The ESAIL microsatellite for tracking ships at sea has captured 57 000 messages in its first 24 hours of operation, using advanced on-board processing algorithms. To source
ESA and Auroch Digital launch Mars Horizon game
You’re controlling your very own space agency at the dawn of the space age, with the ultimate goal of setting foot on the surface of Mars. Which technologies should you research? Which rockets should you build? Should you aim for the Moon first or head straight to the Red Planet? To source
Call for Media: ESA and ClearSpace SA sign contract for world’s first debris removal mission
Press Release N° 26–2020 ESA is signing an €86 million contract with an industrial team led by the Swiss start-up ClearSpace SA to purchase a unique service: the first removal of an item of space debris from orbit. As a result, in 2025, ClearSpace SA will launch the first active debris removal mission, ClearSpace-1, which will […]
Move over plastic: desktop 3D printing in metal or ceramics
Image: Move over plastic: desktop 3D printing in metal or ceramics To source
Over to you, Eumetsat!
It was a spectacular launch on 21 November, as the Copernicus Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich satellite was lifted into space on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. After taking care of the Earth observation spacecraft during the critical early days and making it at home in its new environment, ESA is ready to hand over control to […]
Home away from home planet
Image: Thomas Pesquet works in the European Columbus laboratory in space To source