A cool campaign for Acouling team

In brief Students from Polytechnic University of Catalonia just finished an experimental campaign in the ZARM Drop Tower in Bremen, Germany, where they used sound waves to dissipate heat. In-depth ACOULING experimental hardware integrated into the capsule On Earth, in the presence of gravity and air, convection forces play a very big role in heat Read More

MITMA presents the 2022 Enaire Foundation Awards for the promotion of aeronautical culture, art, innovation and research

- During the award ceremony, the Secretary of State noted that "the development of mobility and the spread of culture enrich society, unite territories and help to improve the lives of citizens" - Alberto García Álix (Lifetime Achievement in Photography), journalist Marta Fajardo (Aeronautical Journalism) and the Aeronautical Technology Centre (I+Dron Award) were among the Read More

ENAIRE highlights its commitment to the aerospace sector by investing over 107 million euros in the development of the Single European Sky

Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan (PRTR) photo MITMA • Through these actions to enable the development of the Single European Sky, ENAIRE is contributing to the Sustainable, Safe and Connected Mobility Strategy of the MITMA. • Angel Luis Arias, CEO: "STARTICAL will be the start of a new concept in air traffic management, and it Read More

SpaceX CRS-26: NASA, SpaceX launches November 26th, 2022

Due to poor weather conditions in the area along Florida’s Space Coast for today’s planned launch of SpaceX’s 26th commercial resupply services mission to the International Space Station, SpaceX and NASA liftoff for 2:20 p.m. EST Saturday, Nov. 26, from the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. A launch Saturday would lead to docking Sunday, Read More

Webb reveals an exoplanet atmosphere as never seen before

ce & Exploration The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope just scored another first: a molecular and chemical portrait of a distant world’s skies. While Webb and other space telescopes, including the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, have previously revealed isolated ingredients of this heated planet’s atmosphere, the new readings provide a full menu of atoms, molecules, Read More

Earth from Space: Zaragoza, Spain

The province of Zaragoza, in northeast Spain, is featured in this image captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission. Together with the provinces of Huesca and Teruel, Zaragoza formed the old kingdom of Aragon. Its capital, also called Zaragoza (not visible in this image) is home to around half of Aragon’s population. The Ebro River can Read More

ESA presents new generation of ESA astronauts

The European Space Agency has chosen 17 new astronaut candidates from more than 22 500 applicants from across its Member States. In this new 2022 class of ESA astronauts are five career astronauts, 11 members of an astronaut reserve and one astronaut with a disability. ESA Director General Josef Aschbacher introduced the members of the Read More