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ESA – Artificial star

ESA – Artificial star

[ad_1] Like mariners of old, spacecraft steer by the stars – using combinations of telescopes, cameras and computers called startrackers to recognise stellar constellations to calculate their own position in space.The test bench seen here generates an artificial...

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US Space Force rolls out lean new mission statement

US Space Force rolls out lean new mission statement

[ad_1] The United States Space Force has a new mission statement.Space Force unveiled the new statement this week, outlining the service's mission in just nine brief words: "Secure our Nation's interests in, from, and to space."In a statement, the service's top...

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The Case for a Small Universe

[ad_1] The Universe is big, as Douglas Adams would say. The most distant light we can see is the cosmic microwave background (CMB), which has taken more than 13 billion years to reach us. This marks the edge of the observable universe, and while you might think that...

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