July 5, 2019 The 15th Trilateral Meeting between DLR, ONERA, and JAXA held in Paris On June 18th 2019 during the Paris Air Show at Le Bourget, the 15th Trilateral Meeting between DLR (The German Aerospace Center), ONERA (The French Aerospace Lab), and JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) was held to promote collaborative research among […]
Astronauts on the Moon found themselves hopping around, rather than simply walking. Switzerland’s SpaceBok planetary exploration robot has followed their example, launching all four legs off the ground during tests at ESA’s technical heart. To source
ESA’s Mars Express has been keeping an eye on local and regional dust storms brewing at the north pole of the Red Planet over the last month, watching as they disperse towards the equator. To source
Discover the 1-m telescope on the volcanic island of Tenerife, Spain, providing crucial information on space debris and risky asteroids To source
Impressions of the total solar eclipse from Earth and space To source
Human and robotic exploration image of the week: The Pangaea field training team explores local geology in Norway. To source
ESA’s Proba-2 saw four partial eclipses from space during the 2 July total solar eclipse To source
This 8-image mosaic of the Sojourner rover on the surface of Mars was acquired during the late afternoon on Sol 2. Sojourner arrived aboard the Mars Pathfinder on July 4, 1997. To source
Technology image of the week: This mesh-based model helps engineers working on Meteosat Third Generation, showing how the satellite itself responds to radio frequency antenna operations To source
A launch abort system (LAS) with a test version of Orion attached soars upward on NASA’s Ascent Abort-2 (AA-2) flight test atop a Northrop Grumman provided booster on July 2, 2019, after launching at 7 a.m. EDT. To source
The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission captures the blaze from a military training site in northern Germany To source
There is little known about the effects of space radiation on the human body. Astronauts cannot see or feel it, yet the high doses they are exposed to outside Earth’s cocoon pose health hazards for trips to the Moon and Mars. To help investigate and find out more, European scientists can now accelerate atoms at […]
A test version of NASA’s Orion crew module is ready for rollback at Space Launch Complex 46 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. To source