[ad_1] Applications 08/03/2023 1416 views 35 likes Passengers flying on Italy’s national carrier ITA Airways will experience fewer flight delays and greener travel thanks to pilots being able to use satellites to route their planes. The ESA-backed Iris for aviation...

[ad_1] Nicole Mann, the first Native American woman in space, reflected recently on her long road to orbit.Mann, a member of the Wailacki of the Round Valley Indian Tribes in northern California, told the U.S. Senate Committee on Indian Affairs last month about the...

[ad_1] Applications 08/03/2023 366 views 15 likes Would you like to know the future of satellite navigation? Try ESA’s Navigation Laboratory. This is a site where navigation engineers test prototypes of tomorrow's user receivers, using simulated versions of the...

[ad_1] New images from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have revealed that a well-known early galaxy has an overshadowed companion that is abundant with star formation. JWST's initial target was SPT0418-47, one of the brightest dusty, star-forming galaxies in...

[ad_1] Agency 07/03/2023 485 views 31 likes The interactive version of the Space Ambition book is now online, featuring all the content and images included in the hardcover edition. With an introduction from ESA DG Josef Aschbacher, an overview of ESA’s ambition for...

[ad_1] A rare supermassive black hole found hiding at the dawn of the universe could indicate that there were thousands more of the ravenous monsters stalking the early cosmos than scientists thought — and astronomers aren't sure why. The primordial black hole is...

[ad_1] Mars is a long way from Earth, making it challenging to communicate with. That difficult communication is becoming ever more important as we launch more and more craft to the Red Planet. It will become absolutely critical when we send actual people there. So...

[ad_1] Applications 07/03/2023 241 views 14 likes Today Galileo is the world’s most precise satellite navigation system, delivering metre-level accuracy, and if you are a modern smartphone owner then you – like nearly four billion others around the world – are among...

[ad_1] Japan's brand-new rocket has failed its first test flight.The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)'s new H3 rocket lifted off from Tanegashima Space Center on Monday (March 6) at 8:37 p.m. EST (0137 GMT and 10:37 a.m. Japan Standard Time on March 7). 5...

[ad_1] As tragic as it is, engulfment of a planetary object by its stellar parent is a common scenario throughout the universe. But it doesn’t have to end in doom. A team of astrophysicists have used computer simulations to discover that planets can not only survive...