The Airbus team poses with the European Service Module during preparations for shipment to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. To source
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A home for the Flyeye
Operations image of the week: ESA’s plan to deploy a global network of asteroid-detecting telescopes gets closer to reality, as an agreement is signed with the Italian space agency to locate the first-ever Flyeye telescope in Sicily To source
Kibo-ABC Member Countries' News: Asian Try Zero-G 2018 Result Meeting
Kibo-ABC Member Countries’ News: Asian Try Zero-G 2018 Result Meeting Last Updated: November 2, 2018 On the 27th of July, the proposers of eight experiments performed at Asian Try Zero-G 2018 gave presentations of their results based on the on-orbit experiment, and had a discussion with the JAXA astronaut Norishige Kanai . Approximately 100 participants […]
Galactic ghosts: Gaia uncovers major event in the formation of the Milky Way
ESA’s Gaia mission has made a major breakthrough in unravelling the formation history of the Milky Way. To source
Counting down to MetOp-C
Teams at ESA’s European Space Operations Centre in Germany have been training for months in preparation for next week’s launch of MetOp-C – the last in the current series of meteorological satellites that provide high-quality data for weather forecasting and climate monitoring from polar orbit. As a collaborative undertaking between ESA and Eumetsat , the […]
Happy Birthday, Michael Collins!
Happy birthday, Michael Collins! Test pilot and NASA astronaut Michael Collins served as the pilot for Gemini X and as the command module pilot for the Apollo 11 mission, the first time humans set foot on another celestial body. To source
Results of Protein Crystal Growth experiment in Kibo (Flash report)
Results of Protein Crystal Growth experiment in Kibo (Flash report) Last Updated: November 1, 2018 The protein crystals acquired in the High-Quality Protein Crystal Growth (PCG) experiment during Astronaut Kanai’s stay on the International Space Station (ISS) were brought back to Earth by the Dragon SpX-14 spacecraft on May 6, 2018. The crystals were handed […]
Darkness of space
Technology image of the week: What’s that in the dark? Vision-based navigation for space under test in ESA’s GRALS chamber To source
The power of three
With the third MetOp satellite set for liftoff on 7 November, this video highlights how it is used for weather forecasting and how it will orbit along with its predecessors To source
Into the dark
The geology analogue course Pangaea continues for its third leg in Lanzarote To source
Goodbye Europe, hello Moon: European Module ships soon
The European Service Module that will power and propel the Orion spacecraft on its first mission around the Moon will ship early next week from Bremen to the United States. It will take off in an Antonov An-124 aircraft in the early hours of 5 November and arrive at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, US […]
John Glenn Returns to Space on the STS-95 Mission
Senator John Glenn during water survival training for the STS-95 mission at the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory. On Oct. 29, 1998, space shuttle Discovery launched with Senator Glenn aboard, as he returned to space for the first time since his 1962 flight. To source
Preparing MetOp-C
MetOp-C will soon be launched from French Guiana. ESA’s Stéfane Carlier talks about how this mission provides the continuity of information for weather forecasting and climate research To source