Category: space

SPAIN - The recovery of air traffic exceeds the European average • Domestic flights fared the best, with a drop of 4% • Over 650,000 flights were managed in the first eight months of the year • If the flights are compared to those of August 2020, the figure is 51% higher Month by month, Read More

photo ULA ULA’s next generation rocket to compete for future NASA launches NASA’s Launch Services Program (LSP) has added United Launch Alliance’s next generation rocket, the Vulcan Centaur, to the NASA Launch Services II (NLS) indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contract in accordance with the on-ramp provision of NLS II. “ULA is honored that NASA LSP has Read More

ESA / One of the most comprehensive pictures of our changing planet is now available to the public. Thanks to the close collaboration between Google Earth, ESA, the European Commission, NASA and the US Geological Survey, 24 million satellite photos from the past 37 years have been embedded into a new layer of Google Earth Read More

ESA / What would you do with a powerful space computer that can learn, react, photograph our planet and send and receive information in a variety of forms? The test of all knowledge is experiment, as Richard Feynman once said, and OPS-SAT is the first ESA spacecraft that you can apply to experiment with. Tell Read More

Matthew KuhnsMasten Space Systems Inc. How FAST Landing Pad would be deployed during a mission. Credits: Matthew Kuhns FAST Particle injection in the lander engine (left) and deposition on the surface (right). Credits: Matthew Kuhns As the United States strategizes its return of humans to the Moon in 2024 and beyond per Space Policy Directive Read More

photo NASA Take Flight with the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter We're inviting you to join us for the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter's first attempt at powered, controlled flight on another planet. The helicopter team is targeting no earlier than Sunday, April 11, for the historic first flight. A livestream confirming Ingenuity’s first flight is targeted to begin Read More

Norway's first AIS satellite launched 10 years ago and was one of the first to monitor maritime traffic from space. By Berit Ellingsen AISSat-1, Norway's first national satellite, was launched on the 12th of July 2010. It was one of the first satellites in the world to detect AIS signals in real time from polar Read More

photo copyright NASA When NASA’s Orion spacecraft is nearing its return to Earth after its Artemis I mission to the Moon, it will attempt the first skip entry for a human spacecraft – a maneuver designed to pinpoint its landing spot in the Pacific Ocean. During this skip entry, Orion will dip into the upper Read More

More and more new products and services based on satellite data are introduced, contributing to making society safer and more efficient. The Norwegian Space Agency governs Norway's space policy on behalf of the Norwegian Ministry of Trade, Industry and Fisheries, contributes to the development of Norway's space industry, and ensures that public allocations are being Read More

by ESA ESA-sponsored medical doctor Nick Smith snapped this photo of the storage containers at Concordia research station in Antarctica shortly before sunset, 8 April 2021. The dark blue line at the horizon is the shadow of the Earth. The containers store food, recycling and the scientific samples of blood, saliva, and stool that Nick Read More