Tag: Space

Space – Un aiuto dallo spazio per la lotta agli incendi boschivi (Global Science)

Barbara Ranghelli writes: Uno strumento della Nasa, l’ECOsystem Spaceborne Thermal Radiometer Experiment on Space Station (Ecostress), sta fornendo dati essenziali per combattere la propagazione dei...

Space – 29 raptor per il Super Heavy (Global Science)

Global Science writes: È atteso entro la fine dell’anno il primo volo orbitale di Starship, la navicella riutilizzabile per lo spazio profondo che sta...

Space/Defense – DIU’s Butow Pushes Space Force Case On ‘Tactical ISR’ Mission (Breaking Defense)

THERESA HITCHENS writes: Defense Department space leaders are pressing their case for the Space Force to take on responsibility for buying commercial satellite imagery and...

USA/Defense/Space – SPACECOM Head Touts Space, High Seas Parallels (Breaking Defense)

THERESA HITCHENS writes: Space, including cislunar space, is as strategically important as the high seas, and Space Command has much to learn from naval operations over...

Space – See galactic triplets play tug-of-war in Hubble’s latest snapshot (Popular Science)

ERIN FENNESSY writes: Sibling skirmishes don’t just happen on Earth, but in space, too. Last week, the Hubble Space Telescope, a joint project run...

Space – How old is the universe? Our answer keeps getting better (Popular Science)

CHARLIE WOOD  writes: In milliseconds, Google can serve up a fact that long eluded many of humanity’s deepest thinkers: The universe is nearly 14...

Space – Staring at the Sun (NASA)

NASA writes: On April 29, 2015, NuSTAR, Hinode, and Solar Dynamics Observatory all stared at our Sun.  go to NASA: Staring at the Sun |...

Space – Clays, Not Water, Are Likely Source of Mars ‘Lakes’ (NASA)

NASA writes: Where there’s water, there’s life. That’s the case on Earth, at least, and also why scientists remain tantalized by any evidence suggesting...

USA/Space – Space Force launches small satellite to test new sensor possibilities (Defense News)

Nathan Strout writes: The U.S. Space Force launched a new experimental satellite July 29 that will test the possibility of installing large, deployable weather...

Space – Juice takes the heat (ESA)

ESA writes: ESA's Jupiter Icy moons Explorer, Juice, has successfully completed rigorous thermal tests simulating the extreme coldness of space and the warmth of...

Space – Jupiter mission passes space vacuum test (ESA)

ESA writes: ESA’s Juice mission to Jupiter has successfully endured a month of space-like conditions inside the Large Space Simulator, the largest vacuum chamber in Europe. go...

Space – Bright Rays and Dark Shadows in a Nearby Galaxy (NASA)

NASA writes: From 156 million light-years away the heart of active galaxy IC 5063 reveals a mixture of bright rays and dark shadows coming from...

Space – Two More Artemis I Deep Space CubeSats Prepare for Launch (NASA)

Jennifer Harbaugh writes: Two additional secondary payloads that will travel to deep space on Artemis I, the first flight of the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion...

Space – Rocket tanks of carbon fibre reinforced plastic proven possible (ESA)

ESA writes: Building on earlier studies, MT Aerospace in Germany has demonstrated a novel design of a small scale tank made of a unique...

Space – First test of Europe’s new space brain (ESA)

ESA writes: On 26 June 2021, ESA’s OPS-SAT space lab became the first spacecraft to be monitored and controlled using the EGS-CC – proving that this...

Space – Hubble Finds First Evidence of Water Vapor at Jupiter’s Moon Ganymede (NASA)

NASA writes: For the first time, astronomers have uncovered evidence of water vapor in the atmosphere of Jupiter's moon Ganymede. This water vapor forms...