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Interference testing
Image: Testing one, two and now, three. Radio frequency testing has begun on the first Orion spacecraft that will fly around the Moon for the Artemis 1 mission, just two weeks after thermal and environmental tests were completed at NASA’s Plum Brook Station in Ohio, USA. Electromagnetic compatibility or EMC testing is routine for spacecraft. All […]
3D-printed thrust chamber passes first tests for Vega evolutions
The 3D-printed thrust chamber assembly of the methane-fuelled M10 rocket engine has passed its first series of hot firing tests. The M10 engine will power the upper stage of future Vega evolutions from 2025. To source
Amelia Earhart Visits the NACA (And Gets Her Coat Caught in a Wind Tunnel!)
Amelia Earhart visits Langley in November 1928. To source
Milky Way’s warp caused by galactic collision, Gaia suggests
Astronomers have pondered for years why our galaxy, the Milky Way, is warped. Data from ESA’s star-mapping satellite Gaia suggest the distortion might be caused by an ongoing collision with another, smaller, galaxy, which sends ripples through the galactic disc like a rock thrown into water. To source
Astronaut Jessica Meir Configures the Light Microscopy Module
NASA astronaut and International Space Station Expedition 62 crew member Jessica Meir configures the Light Microscopy Module inside the Fluids Integrated Rack. To source
Tracy Drain: Systems Engineer
Tracy Drain, with one of her childhood inspirations … Nichelle Nichols, Star Trek’s Lt. Uhura To source
Week in images: 24-28 February 2020
Week in images: 24-28 February 2020 Discover our week through the lens To source
Earth from Space: Andros, Bahamas
Video: 00:02:58 In this week’s edition of the Earth from Space programme, the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over Andros, the largest island of the Bahamas. See also Andros, Bahamas to download the image. In this week’s edition of the Earth from Space programme, the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over Andros, the largest island […]
Andros, Bahamas
Image: Andros, Bahamas To source
The most powerful black hole eruption in the Universe (with inset)
Image: The most powerful black hole eruption in the Universe (with inset) To source
The most powerful black hole eruption in the Universe
Astronomers using ESA’s XMM-Newton and NASA’s Chandra X-ray space observatories, along with radio telescopes on ground, have spotted the aftermath of the most powerful explosion ever seen in the Universe. To source
First Flight of Saturn IB
On Feb. 26, 1966, AS-201, the first Saturn IB rocket, lifted off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. To source