Category: space

The James Webb Space Telescope (Webb) is designed to answer fundamental questions about the Universe. With 100 times more sensitivity than the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, and a mirror which is nearly double the size of ESA’s Herschel Space Observatory, it can detect infrared light generated by galaxies as they formed more than 13.5 billion Read More

In brief The chance that ESA’s Solar Orbiter spacecraft will encounter space debris during its upcoming Earth flyby is very, very low. However, the risk is not zero and is greater than any other flyby ESA has performed. That there is this risk at all highlights the mess we’ve made of space – and why Read More

ESA’s Hera mission seen with its CubeSats in orbit around its target asteroid. Now NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test, DART, is on its way to test the kinetic impact technique of asteroid deflection, ESA’s Hera will be Earth’s next planetary defence mission, scheduled to fly to the same body that DART will impact next year. Read More

The recovery of air traffic in Spain exceeds the European average Domestic flights fared the best, with a recovery of 87.6%Nearly 950,000 flights were managed in the first ten months of the yearIf the flights are compared to those of October 2020, the figure is 123.5% higher Month by month, the trend continues as air Read More

Everything is progressing toward the ULA Atlas V launch carrying the Lucy mission for NASA. The mission is planned to lift off on Sat., Oct. 16 at 5:34 a.m. EDT from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. Today’s forecast shows a 90 percent chance of favorable weather conditions for launch. Read More

Month by month, the trend continues as air traffic recovers to pre-pandemic levels. ENAIRE managed over 147,000 flights in September (147,221), which is just 27.6% below the average for the entire network for the same month in 2019, the baseline year for data comparisons, since traffic in 2020 fell to very low levels as a Read More

…for its safe, efficient, innovative and sustainable management of air navigation services The Secretary of State for Transport, Mobility and Urban Agenda and ENAIRE's President, Isabel Pardo de Vera, received the internationally recognised EFQM 500 Seal today at the Ministry's headquarters, which was presented by the Club Excelencia en Gestión. This three-year seal recognises ENAIRE's Read More

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