Thirty years ago, Giotto met Comet Halley, inspiring an art competition for children To source
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Rosetta finds magnetic field-free bubble at comet
ESA’s Rosetta spacecraft has revealed a surprisingly large region around its host comet devoid of any magnetic field. To source
ExoMars 2016 Spacecraft and Proton Rocket Rolled Out To Launch Pad | Video
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Exploring Jupiter with Mobile Apps: Track the Planet, Great Red Spot and More
This week, Jupiter, the king of planets, reaches opposition — the day of the year when Earth’s orbit carries it the closest to the giant planet. Currently, Jupiter rises as the sun sets, and the planet traverses the sky all night. In your binoculars or telescope , Jupiter will appear with a disk diameter of […]
ExoMars launch updates
Updates from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan as we count down to the launch of ExoMars 2016 on 14 March. To source
Engine Used on Penultimate Space Shuttle Flight Relit for New NASA Rocket
NASA engineers conducted a successful test fire of RS-25 rocket engine No. 2059 at the Stennis Space Center in Mississippi on March 10, 2016. Credit: NASA A rocket engine that helped launch five space shuttle missions, including the penultimate flight of the program in 2011, was fired again on Thursday (March 10) in preparation for […]
Red But Not Dead – ExoMars Orbiter To Look For Water And Life | Video
Skylon SABRE – A True Space Plane | Video Sh… CosMix: The Universe Is Alive With Music Goddard Space Flight Center’s Best Videos NASA Edge NEOs: Near Earth Objects – The Video Show Inside Space Station – The Video Show Exploring the Southern Sky – ESO at 50 | Vide… Last Venus Transit In Your […]
ExoMars 2016 Mars Mission Launch: Complete Coverage
Update: The first part of the two-phase ExoMars mission successfully blasted off atop a Russian Proton rocket from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Monday (March 14) at 5:31 a.m. EST (0931 GMT). Watch the Launch Replay The launch sent the Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) and Schiaparelli landing demonstrator on a seven-month journey to Mars. Upon arrival, […]
[Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (ISAS)] Send your name and a message for ERG! Deadline for accepting messages extended [12:00, April 25, 2016 (JST)]
[Japanese ] Deadline: 12:00, April 25, 2016(Japan Standard Time) In the early days of space exploration, 1958, the first US satellite Explorer 1 discovered existence of high energy charged particles in geospace by the onboard radiation detector. The observations by subsequent explorers identified that high energy charged particles are distributed in doughnut shape surrounding Earth. […]
Mission Manager Update: K2 continues to shine
Now in its eighth observing campaign, the Kepler spacecraft continues to operate beautifully as the K2 mission. original
Packing Lunches for Space: Scientists Talk Astronaut Health on 1-Year Mission
NASA’s Scott Kelly (left) poses with Russian cosmonauts Mikhail Kornienko and Gennady Padalka on March 15, 2015. Kornienko and Kelly spent nearly a year in space, to help scientists understand the physical and psychological impacts of spaceflight. The work paves the way to eventually send humans to Mars. Credit: NASA/Victor Zelentsov NASA astronaut Scott Kelly […]
Ariane 5, in 2nd Straight Solo Mission, Places Eutelsat 65 West A into Orbit
Eutelsat’s 65 West A satellite was launched on an Ariane 5 rocket, March 8, 2016. Credit: Arianespace ALEXANDRIA, Virginia – Europe’s Ariane 5 rocket on March 8 successfully placed the Eutelsat 65 West A multi-band telecommunications satellite into geostationary transfer orbit. It was the vehicle’s 71st consecutive success, its second of 2016 and, exceptionally, the second […]
The ESA Academy is born!
Space science and engineering education gets a new boost To source