Video: 00:00:51 The James Webb Space Telescope , configured for flight, was moved from the cleanroom to the payload preparation facility for fuelling at Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana on 11–12 November 2021. Webb will be loaded with propellants before being mounted on top of the rocket and then encapsulated by the Ariane 5 fairing. […]
Image: Webb stickers for Ariane 5 fairing To source
Video: 00:01:00 Solar Orbiter’s crucial flyby of Earth on 27 November will place the spacecraft onto the correct orbit for its science phase to begin. But the manoeuvre is not without risk. At closest approach, the spacecraft will be around 460 km above our planet. This is in the Low Earth Orbit zone, where the […]
Video: 00:00:19 The Euclid payload and service module are currently at Thales Alenia Space in Torino, Italy, where they will be integrated to form the final, finished spacecraft. In this video Euclid’s service module is being transferred onto a support near the payload module, in order to prepare it for further integration activities. Euclid is […]
Using ESA’s XMM-Newton and NASA’s Chandra X-ray space telescopes, astronomers have made an important step in the quest to find a planet outside of the Milky Way. To source
Video: 00:00:41 ESA’s Euclid mission aims to investigate dark matter, dark energy and the expanding Universe. Euclid has reached a new milestone in its development with successful testing of the telescope and instruments showing that it can operate and achieve the required performance in the extreme environment of space. At Centre Spatial de Liège (CSL) […]
Video: 00:01:54 The James Webb Space Telescope, a once in a generation space mission, arrived safely at Pariacabo harbour in French Guiana on 12 October 2021, ahead of its launch on an Ariane 5 rocket from Europe’s Spaceport. Webb was packed in a 30 m long container with additional equipment. It arrived from California on board […]
Video: 00:02:07 The James Webb Space Telescope will be the largest, most powerful telescope ever launched into space. Webb’s flight into orbit will take place on an Ariane 5 rocket from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana. Webb is the next great space science observatory, designed to answer outstanding questions about the Universe and to make […]
Image: Gravitational waves are ripples in spacetime produced by the acceleration of very massive objects, such as black holes coming together and merging. Different objects in space produce gravitational waves of different timescales, ranging from milliseconds to billions of years. Some of these waves can only be observed from space. This is the goal of […]
Video: 00:00:55 ESA’s Euclid mission aims to investigate dark matter, dark energy and the expanding Universe. Euclid has reached a new milestone in its development with successful testing of the telescope and instruments showing that it can operate and achieve the required performance in the extreme environment of space. At Centre Spatial de Liège (CSL) […]
ESA’s Euclid mission has reached a new milestone in its development with successful testing of the telescope and instruments showing that it can operate and achieve the required performance in the extreme environment of space. To source
Simply by moving through the heavens, spacecraft change the space about them. Such interactions are invisible to the naked eye, but can endanger mission performance and safety. A new ESA Resarch Fellow study simulated the Cassini spacecraft in the vicinity of Saturn, checking the findings against actual space measurements. It reveals Cassini cast an ‘ion […]
Video: 00:00:45 Fully assembled and fully tested, the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has completed its primary testing regimen and is soon preparing for shipment to its launch site at Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Access the video on nasa.gov To source