Replay of SmallGEO media briefing, 18 January at ESA HQ, with ESA DG, Director of Telecommunications Magali Vaissiere, and the SmallGEO first flight partners To source
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Moon Meets Jupiter and Bright Star Before Dawn on Thursday
The moon will shine bright with Jupiter and the bright star Spica before dawn on Thursday, Jan. 19, 2017, in the eastern sky. This sky map shows the location of Jupiter and the moon at 12:30 a.m. local time. Look to the east-southeast sky soon after midnight early Thursday (Jan. 19) for an interesting celestial […]
Seizing the future
Technology image of the week: ESA’s e.Deorbit mission will be the world’s first space debris removal mission To source
DG media briefing
Replay of ESA Director General Jan Woerner’s media briefing at ESA Headquarters in Paris, 18 January To source
'Star Trek: Discovery' Delayed, Classic Character Re-Cast
Star Trek: Discovery, CBS’s new series planned for its streaming All Access app, has been delayed again. After being announced to debut this month, the series was pushed back to a May premiere. CBS now says the premiere date is “flexible.” James Frain “Production on Star Trek: Discovery begins next week. We love the cast, […]
Mud Cracks on Mars Suggest a Watery Ancient Past
A Martian rock slab called “Old Soaker” on Mount Sharp has a network of cracks that might have formed from a mud layer that dried more than 3 billion years ago. This image was taken by the Mast Camera (Mastcam) on NASA’s Curiosity rover on Dec. 20, 2016. NASA’s Curiosity rover has photographed shallow crevices […]
Spacewalk Photos: International Space Station Gets a Power Upgrade
<div data-cycle-pager-template=”” readability=”31.5″> Kimbrough’s Reflection Credit: NASA Kimbrough caught a glimpse of his reflection over the Earth during the spacewalk. This is a view from Kimbrough’s helmet camera. <div data-cycle-pager-template=”” readability=”31″> Pesquet and the Earth Credit: NASA The Earth is seen below Pesquet’s feet in this view of his first spacewalk. <div data-cycle-pager-template=”” readability=”31″> Kimbrough […]
NASA Astronaut Shane Kimbrough on Jan. 13 Spacewalk
Expedition 50 Commander Shane Kimbrough of NASA at work outside the International Space Station on Jan. 13, 2017, in a photo taken by fellow spacewalker Thomas Pesquet of ESA. The two astronauts successfully installed three new adapter plates and hooked up electrical connections for three of the six new lithium-ion batteries on the station. To […]
Cernan Visits Apollo 17 Capsule – 'The Last Man on the Moon' Clip
By Steve Spaleta | January 17, 2017 11:17am ET “I also stand here and I am wondering what people are going to think, not in another 40 years, maybe another hundred years, who knows, maybe another 1000 years,” said Apollo 17 commander Eugene Andrew “Gene” Cernan as he stood in front of the capsule that […]
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Holding on
Human spaceflight and robotic exploration image of the week: Thomas Pesquet spacewalk To source
Eugene Cernan's Legacy: Apollo 17 Commander's Footprints Still on the Moon
Eugene Cernan may be gone, but he left a lasting mark in the heavens. The tracks Cernan — who died Monday (Jan. 16) at age 82 — and Apollo 17 crewmate Harrison Schmitt made on the moon’s surface in December 1972 are still visible today, as these images captured by NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) […]
Turtle the Size of 2 Earths: Stunning Sunspot Revealed in New Radio Images
A shadowy turtle twice the size of Earth swims across the sun in new images from the ALMA radio telescope in Chile, viewing the sun for the first time and documenting the area right above its visible surface. The sprawling ground-based telescope is more usually used to probe radio waves released by some of the […]