by rmil2k | Feb 20, 2023 | News
[ad_1] Astronomers have studied the star formation process for decades. As we get more and more capable telescopes, the intricate details of one of nature’s most fascinating processes become clearer. The earliest stages of star formation happen inside a dense veil of...
by rmil2k | Feb 19, 2023 | News
[ad_1] Space Safety 3186 views 75 likes In brief Asteroids, like stars, only come out at night. Hidden in the glare of our Sun are an unknown number of asteroids on paths we cannot track, many of which could be heading for Earth, and we just don’t know it. ESA’s...
by rmil2k | Feb 19, 2023 | News
[ad_1] Construction of a second phase of China’s planetary defense radar array is underway.The “China Compound Eye” or Fuyan project will create a network of radar antennae that will bounce radar signals off distant objects to image and track...
by rmil2k | Feb 19, 2023 | News
[ad_1] The European Space Agency is working on a new mission that would act as an early warning system for dangerous, hard-to-see asteroids. Called NEOMIR (Near-Earth Object Mission in the InfraRed), the spacecraft would orbit between the Earth and the Sun at the L1...
by rmil2k | Feb 19, 2023 | News
[ad_1] After many years of study, development, building and testing, ESA’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer, Juice, has finally arrived at Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. At the end of 2022 the spacecraft underwent its final thermal vacuum test at an Airbus...
