by rmil2k | Nov 19, 2023 | News
The second-ever test flight of SpaceX’s giant Starship rocket has spurred an investigation, just as the first one did.Starship lifted off from SpaceX’s Starbase site in South Texas on Saturday (Nov. 18), kicking off a test mission that aimed to send the...
by rmil2k | Nov 18, 2023 | News
The solar nebula that birthed the Sun and its stellar siblings likely resembled the Orion Nebula. Credit: NASA,ESA, M. Robberto (Space Telescope Science Institute/ESA) and the Hubble Space Telescope Orion Treasury Project Team Approximately 4.5 billion years ago, a...
by rmil2k | Nov 18, 2023 | News
The ESO’s Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) is perched high in the Chilean Andes. ALMA is made of 66 high-precision antennae that all work together to observe light just between radio and infrared. Its specialty is cold objects, and in recent years,...
by rmil2k | Nov 18, 2023 | News
Enabling & Support 17/11/2023 2889 views 45 likes In brief On 17 November 2023, ESA’s Juice spacecraft carried out one of the largest and most important manoeuvres in its eight-year journey to Jupiter.Using its main engine, Juice changed its orbit around the Sun...
by rmil2k | Nov 18, 2023 | News
SpaceX is set to launch 22 Starlink internet satellites from Florida tonight (Nov. 17), the first of two planned Starlink missions this weekend.A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is scheduled to lift off from Florida’s Cape Canaveral Space Force Station tonight during a...
