[ad_1] On one particular day in 2021, astronauts and cosmonauts aboard the ISS must have felt a pin-prick of fear and uncertainty. On November 15th of that year, Russia fired an anti-satellite missile at one of its own defunct military satellites, Tselina-D. The...

[ad_1] Enabling & Support 06/07/2023 807 views 33 likes Europe’s Ariane 5 rocket has completed its final flight, placing two payloads – the German aerospace agency DLR’s Heinrich Hertz experimental communications satellite and the French communications satellite...

[ad_1] Europe's workhorse rocket has flown for the final time.The powerful Ariane 5 launched today (July 5) on the last-ever mission of its storied career, which began way back in 1996 and now includes 117 orbital liftoffs.Today's mission began at 6 p.m. EDT (2200...

[ad_1] Back to Article List Win an 8-inch Celestron telescope by recounting your favorite skygazing tale. Credit: NASA, ESA, and L. Bianchi (The Johns Hopkins University); Processing: Gladys Kober (NASA/Catholic University of America) In the autumn of 2002, I had a...

[ad_1] On Saturday, July 1st (Canada Day!), the ESA’s Euclid space telescope lifted off from Cape Canaveral in Florida. This next-generation astrophysics mission will spend the next few weeks flying to the Earth-Sun L2 Lagrange Point, where it will spend the next six...

[ad_1] Science & Exploration 03/07/2023 1303 views 45 likes Taking into account the extreme conditions spacewalk suits must withstand to protect our astronauts, participants were challenged to design a suit that is instantly recognisable for ESA astronauts. The...

[ad_1] A new image from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) shows that when it comes to galaxies, appearances can be deceiving.The picture shows a serene-looking orange-red galaxy, but this cosmic spiral of gas, dust, and stars hides a violent past representing the...

[ad_1] Clusters and nebulae come together to create shining July evenings. Credit: Astronomy: Roen Kelly In his 1888 book Astronomy With an Opera-Glass, Garrett Serviss wrote: “The Milky Way, streaming down out of the northeast, pours, in a luminous flood, through...

[ad_1] On June 25, 2023, a crew of four volunteers entered a simulated Martian habitat, from which they will not emerge for over a year. Their mission: to learn more about the logistics – and the human psychology – of living long-term on another planet, without ever...

[ad_1] Discover the first results from Europe’s first Lightning Imager onboard the Meteosat Third Generation. The Lightning Imager can continuously detect rapid flashes of lighting in Earth’s atmosphere whether day or night from a distance of 36 000 km.This is the...