ENAIRE will invest 9.5 million euros to transfer and virtualise air traffic control systems supported by Voice over IP
• The actions will be carried out at the Air Control Centres in Madrid, Barcelona and its Centre for Experimentation and Development • These systems are used to manage air traffic, for simulations and operational training environments for controllers and pseudo-pilots, as well as for new communications architectures • In addition, the Board of Directors Read More
ESA – Seeing triple
This observation from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope features the massive galaxy cluster RX J2129. Due to Gravitational lensing, this observation contains three different images of the same supernova-hosting galaxy, which you can see in closer detail here. Gravitational lensing occurs when a massive celestial body causes a sufficient curvature of spacetime to bend Read More
NASA SpaceX Crew 6 walk out photos
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ENAIRE began to implement the AMBAR Project at the Adolfo Suárez Madrid-Barajas Airport
• This means more efficient air operations, improved service quality and reduced fuel consumption and emissions • It makes operations possible using independent approaches to the existing parallel runways • The acoustic impact in relation to the current scenario in the vicinity of the Airport is unchanged • The project satisfies the regulatory requirements of Read More
ESA’s forest satellite robust for launch
Over the last few months, ESA’s Earth Explorer Biomass satellite has been going through a punishing series of tests to make sure that it will survive the unavoidable blasts of noise and shuddering during liftoff. Engineers have now also tested that it will unfold its solar wing in the correct sequence. Coming through all of Read More
Earth from Space: The Triple Frontier
The Triple Frontier, a region where Paraguay, Brazil and Argentina meet, is featured in this false-colour image, captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission. Zoom in to explore this image at its full 10 m resolution or click on the circles to learn more about the features in it. This multitemporal composite was created by combining Read More
Young ESA payload destined for space
A young group of workers at ESA have come together to design a space payload of their own, with ESA technical experts contributing the technical assistance they needed. The result, Young Professional Satellite, YPSat – was presented to representatives of supporting departments at ESA’s ESTEC technical centre in the Netherlands. YPSat-1 camera YPSat is a project Read More
NASA’s SpaceX Crew-6 Launch Scrubbed and update
Launch of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-6 mission from Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Complex 39A in Florida to the International Space Station has been scrubbed. More information is coming soon. The next available launch attempt is at 12:34 a.m. EST Thursday, March 2, pending resolution of the technical issue preventing Monday’s launch. James Cawley- photo Scott Schilke Read More
Crew-6 ‘Go’ for Launch Following Successful Launch Readiness Review
From left, NASA astronauts Warren “Woody” Hoburg and Stephen Bowen, along with Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev and UAE (United Arab Emirates) astronaut Sultan Alneyadi, prepare to depart the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building at Kennedy Space Center in Florida during a dress rehearsal for NASA’s SpaceX Crew-6 mission launch on Thursday, Feb. 23, Read More
Starliner Crew Performs Cabin Operations, Checks Out Tools
NASA astronauts Barry “Butch” Wilmore, Sunita “Suni” Williams and Mike Fincke review some cargo items for the Crew Flight Test with Deanna “Dee” Dobson, Boeing Starliner’s Crew and Cargo Accommodations subsystem engineer. (Boeing, John Proferes) NASA astronauts assigned to the Starliner’s upcoming Crew Flight Test (CFT) completed the first part of a two-part Crew Equipment Read More