by rmil2k | Jun 12, 2024 | News
Enabling & Support 12/06/2024 168 views 2 likes Europe’s newest rocket soon launches, taking with it many space missions each with a unique objective, destination and team at home, cheering them on. Whether launching new satellites to look back and study Earth,...
by rmil2k | Jun 12, 2024 | News
Stoke Space has announced the first successful hot-fire test of an engine designed for its upcoming reusable rocket.The Kent, Washington-based company tested its new full-flow, staged-combustion (FFSC) rocket engine on June 5 at the company’s test site in Moses...
by rmil2k | Jun 12, 2024 | News
The Sun rises at Stonehenge. Credit: Wikimedia Commons. Ancient archaeological sites (like Stonehenge) were constructed so that the Sun would shine through a certain opening on some special day (typically a solstice). Wouldn’t Earth’s precession change the geometry of...
by rmil2k | Jun 12, 2024 | News
Many astronomy-interested people know of the Hyades and the Pleiades. They’re star clusters in the Taurus constellation. They’re two out of a handful of star clusters that are visible to the unaided eye under dark sky conditions. It turns out that these clusters,...
by rmil2k | Jun 11, 2024 | News
The activities to integrate Plato’s cameras have started in OHB’s Space Centre & Optics facility in Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany. One by one the cameras are attached to Plato’s optical bench, the surface that keeps all cameras pointed in the right direction. The...
