Tag: Space

Space – NASA Balloon Detects California Earthquake – Next Stop, Venus? (NASA)

Between July 4 and July 6, 2019, a sequence of powerful earthquakes rumbled near Ridgecrest, California, triggering more than 10,000 aftershocks over a six-week...

Russia/Roscosmos/USA – Roscosmos Suffers From Russia’s Confrontation With the US (Pavel Luzin, The Jamestown Foundation)

Dmitry Rogozin, the head of the Russian state-owned space corporation Roscosmos, confirmed during parliamentary hearings earlier this month that Western sanctions have damaged Russia’s...

USA/Space – FAA and Air Force sign agreement on commercial launches from Space Force bases (Nathan Strout, Defense News)

(SpaceX)  The Deptment of the Air Force signed an agreement with the Federal Aviation Administration designed to eliminate red tape affecting commercial rocket launches at...

Space/Sea Level Monitoring – New sea-level monitoring satellite goes live (ESA)

Following liftoff last November and more than six months spent carefully calibrating the most advanced mission dedicated to measuring sea-level rise, Copernicus Sentinel-6 Michael...

Space/Climate Change – NASA: Earth’s energy imbalance has doubled over last 14 years (NASA)

The Earth's climate depends on how much of the Sun's radiative energy is absorbed and how much thermal infrared radiation is emitted from...

TechInnovation/Space – Portare le tecnologie IIT nello spazio (Giuliano Greco, IIT)

Si è tenuto ieri l’incontro tra i ricercatori IIT e alcune delle principali PMI italiane operanti nel campo della space economy L’evento “Technology transfer applied...

China – China Space Station First Step in Country’s Plans to Colonize Space (Marc Julienne, cité par John Feng pour Newsweek, IFRI)

China's far-reaching ambition for a permanent presence in outer space began in earnest on Thursday with the launch of its first crew bound for...

Space – Cybersecurity, i satelliti sono a prova di hacker? (Piero Iezzi, Start Magazine)

Lo spazio orbitale terrestre sta diventando sempre più trafficato e ambito. Oltre allo “space junk”, la spazzatura spaziale che si muove a velocità supersoniche...

Space – Horizon Europe: pubblicato il Work Programme 2021-2022 Spazio (ASI)

La Commissione Europea ha adottato il Work Programme di Horizon Europe per il periodo 2021-2022. Nel documento sono indicati gli obiettivi e i settori tematici che saranno destinatari di un...

Space – La strada comune verso il Consiglio Ministeriale ESA 2022 (ASI)

“To take care where we go togheter”. Cura reciproca e cammino comune sono le indicazioni lungo la strada che porterà ESA e i suoi Paesi membri...

Space – ESA-ESRIC Space Resources Challenge (ASI)

Lo European Space Resources Innovation Centre dell’ESA ha lanciato la Space Resources Challenge, una competizione basata sui test sul campo  per identificare e sviluppare tecnologie per la prospezione delle...

USA – Space Force launches fifth GPS III satellite for more secure positioning (Nathan Strout, Defense News)

(SpaceX)  The U.S. Space Force sent the fifth GPS III satellite into orbit June 17, the last piece of a constellation that will one day...

Space – ESA-led space propulsion test facility passed to UK owner (ESA)

UK Science Minister Amanda Solloway formally opened the National Space Propulsion Facility, which is based at Westcott Venture Park in Buckinghamshire, a historic centre...

Space – Space sustainability rating to shine light on debris problem (ESA)

There’s a problem brewing overhead. Invisible to the naked eye and relatively unheard of, it threatens our future in space – space debris. A new ‘Space...

Space – Eruzioni stellari ‘extralarge’ (Valeria Guarnieri, Global Science)

Giovani astri che producono emissioni di straordinaria intensità, in grado di aggiungere o togliere qualcosa ai pianeti ‘residenti’ nei loro paraggi: questa è la situazione prospettata da...

Space – Come ti brucio nell’atmosfera (Global Science)

Costruire satelliti rendendo minimo il rischio a Terra in occasione di un rientro incontrollato. È questo l’obiettivo che si è posta l’azienda tedesca Kongsberg...