Image: Citizen scientist discovers Sun-watcher SOHO’s 4000th comet To source
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Citizen scientist discovers Sun-watcher SOHO’s 4000th comet
Video: 00:00:16 Using data from the ESA/NASA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory, or SOHO, a European citizen scientist spotted a never-before-seen comet in the satellite data — the 4,000th comet discovery in the spacecraft’s 25-year history. Currently nicknamed SOHO-4000 and pending its official designation from the Minor Planet Center , the comet has a rather small […]
When Vega met satellites
Image: When Vega met satellites To source
Martian rover motors ahead
European engineers, together with Canada, are working on the technologies needed to find and retrieve samples from Mars, as part of ESA’s plans to send material from the Red Planet to Earth. To source
FSSCat/Ф-sat-1 ready for launch
The first artificial intelligence to be carried onboard a European Earth observation mission will be launched this week from Europe’s spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. The pioneering artificial intelligence technology named ɸ-sat-1, pronounced PhiSat-1, will be the first experiment to improve the efficiency of sending vast quantities of data back to Earth. To source
PICASSO, ESA’s CubeSat to sift secrets from sunrise
There is always a sunrise and sunset happening somewhere on our planet. Soon ESA’s newest CubeSat – flying aboard Europe’s Vega launcher this Friday – will be keeping watch. The miniature PICASSO mission will use the filtering of sunlight by Earth’s atmosphere to check the health of our protective ozone layer. To source
How to reinvent business models after COVID-19
Video: 00:56:23 Replay of a discussion between European experts on how to reinvent your business model in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. Recorded on 15 June 2020. The coronavirus pandemic has induced and accelerated innovation and change within many space-enabled businesses as well as the space industry as a whole. In our fifth and […]
Storm hunter turns two
Image: The Atmosphere-Space Interactions Monitor or ASIM , mounted outside the European laboratory of the International Space Station, enters its second year of science operations. Launched in April 2018, the payload began operating on 14 June 2018 and has been studying thunderstorms 400 km above Earth ever since. Specifically, ASIM is on the hunt for […]
ExoMars spots unique green glow at the Red Planet
ESA’s ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter has detected glowing green oxygen in Mars’ atmosphere – the first time that this emission has been seen around a planet other than Earth. To source
Simba CubeSat to swivel from Earth to Sun to help track climate change
Due to launch aboard Friday’s Vega rocket, ESA’s Simba CubeSat is a tiny mission with a big ambition: to measure one of the fundamental drivers of climate change in a new way. The 30-cm long nanosatellite will turn from Earth to space to the Sun and back again, to calculate our planet’s overall energy budget. […]
SEOSAT-Ingenio ready for shipment to Kourou
The Spanish high-resolution land imaging mission, known as SEOSAT-Ingenio, is currently at the premises of Airbus in Madrid, Spain and is ready to be packed and shipped to Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana – following the mission’s latest successful tests and final technical review. This is another significant milestone in preparing the Earth observation satellite’s […]
Solar Orbiter makes first close approach to the Sun
ESA’s Sun-exploring mission Solar Orbiter has made its first close approach to the star on June 15, getting as close as 77 million kilometres to its surface, about half the distance between the Sun and Earth. To source
Week in images: 8-12 June 2020
Week in images: 8-12 June 2020 Discover our week through the lens To source