Tag: Space

Space – Experiment and innovate on our spacecraft (ESA)

ESA - Experiment and innovate on our spacecraft

Space – Tianwen-1 sent back HD images of landing site on Mars (Global Times)

Left is before and right is after the landing feat. Photo: CNSA Tianwen-1 sent back HD images of landing site on Mars - Global Times

Space – Galileo satellites’ last step before launch (ESA)

ESTEC Test Centre ESA - Galileo satellites’ last step before launch

China/Space – Dragon’s Space Arsenal: Dominating the Strategic High Ground (VIF)

Pushpinder Bath, Senior Fellow, VIF Dragon’s Space Arsenal: Dominating the Strategic High Ground | Vivekananda International Foundation (vifindia.org)

Space – Lancio della European Union Agency for the Space Programme (EUSPA) (Geosmartcampus Magazine)

https://www.geosmartmagazine.it/2021/05/28/lancio-della-european-union-agency-for-the-space-programme-euspa/

Space – ESA’s Space Environment Report 2021 (ESA)

Imagine driving down a road which has more broken cars, bikes and vans lining the street than functioning vehicles. This is the scene our...

Quantum Communication/Space – Quantum communication in space moves ahead (ESA)

Keeping information secure in today’s interconnected world is becoming ever more important, so ESA is supporting efforts to ensure that future communications are kept...

China/Space – China’s New Space Station Is a Stepping-Stone to Achieving Broader Ambitions (CSIS)

Matthew P. Funaiole, Brian Hart Space has long been the province of major powers. Only a handful of countries possess the resources and technological capabilities...

The future of security in space: A thirty-year US strategy (Atlantic Council)

Clementine G. Starling, Mark J. Massa, Lt Col Christopher P. Mulder, and Julia T. Siegel Space development has reached an inflection point, transitioning from...

NASA’s NICER Finds X-ray Boosts in the Crab Pulsar’s Radio Bursts (NASA)

A global science collaboration using data from NASA’s Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) telescope on the International Space Station has discovered X-ray surges accompanying radio bursts from the...

NASA’s Martian Helicopter Readies for Inaugural Flight on Earth’s Neighbor (Nextgov, OOPA)

Brandi Vincent The agency provided updates on milestones met—and a glimpse at what’s to come https://www.nextgov.com/emerging-tech/2021/04/nasas-martian-helicopter-readies-inaugural-flight-earths-neighbor/173177/

Space Force unveils plans for Space Systems Command (Defense News)

Nathan Strout The U.S. Space Force will reorganize its acquisitions organization this summer under the new Space Systems Command, the still nascent service announced Thursday. https://www.c4isrnet.com/battlefield-tech/space/2021/04/08/space-force-unveils-plans-for-space-systems-command/

Introducing ESA Agenda 2025 (ESA)

ESA Director General Josef Aschbacher has worked with our Member States to define new priorities and goals for ESA for the coming years. https://www.esa.int/About_Us/Introducing_ESA_Agenda_2025

The long-term sustainability of space (ESA)

Space may seem vast, but orbits around Earth are a limited natural resource. Millions of debris fragments now fill these orbits, which threaten any...

(Space) Early combined tests mimic Ariane 6 liftoff (European Space Agency)

Ariane 6 early combined tests at Latesys in Fos-sur-Mer, in France, have simulated the moment of liftoff when the umbilicals separate from the launch...

(Space) TechTank Podcast Episode 16: What we can learn about Mars from the Perseverance exploration (Brookings)

Darrell M. West In February, the latest U.S. rover named Perseverance landed on Mars and began what is expected to be a historic exploration of...