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
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Taking to the Skies: Orion Test Brings Moon, Mars Missions Closer
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
German wildfire
The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission captures the blaze from a military training site in northern Germany To source
Radiation sensitive
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 […]
Orion "Go" for Launch
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
Wing stretch
Space Science Image of the Week: Solar Orbiter stretches out one of its arrays during pre-launch testing To source
ESA Impact 2019
Quarter 2 is now online. Browse the stunning images and videos of our activities so far this year To source
World's first long-term habitation of mice on the International Space Station in a gravitational environment simulating the Moon! — A first step toward expanding human activities into deep space.
World’s first long-term habitation of mice on the International Space Station in a gravitational environment simulating the Moon! — A first step toward expanding human activities into deep space. Last Updated: July 1, 2019 You may believe that the entire space is “zero gravity.” The fact is not like that. The gravity on the Moon […]
Week in images
Our week through the lens: 24 – 28 June 2019 To source
ExoMars 2020: progress and challenges
The full parachute system that will help deliver the ExoMars rover and a surface science platform to the martian surface has completed a full-scale high-altitude deployment sequence test, although unexpected damage to the main parachutes occurred. To source
Gulf of Taranto
Earth observation image of the week: the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over the Gulf of Taranto in Italy To source
Earth from Space
In this week’s edition, we take a look at the Gulf of Taranto, located in the inner heel of southern Italy To source
Asteroids old and new
A visualisation of the orbits of asteroids observed by ESA’s Gaia satellite, including four recent discoveries To source