SPACENEWS

For decades, satellites have been instrumental in monitoring our changing climate and improving our understanding of the processes that drive it. But to achieve our climate goals and make Europe the first climate-neutral continent by 2050, we need ideas that take the next step and begin to use space technologies to actively prevent, slow, reverse Read More

Civil-military coordination The professionals of Spain's air navigation service provider coordinated civil and military flights from the Canary Islands Control CentreThis is the most important training exercise with military aircraft in SpainIt involved around 2,000 people and 35 aircraft ENAIRE, Spain's air navigation service provider, through its Canary Islands Control Centre, took part in the Read More

Shake Rattle & Roll tomorrow at 9:41 AM Nov. 1st Tuesday with more than 5 million pounds of thrust at liftoff SpaceX FalconHeavy USSF-44 which is currently the most powerful operational rocket in the world (until Artemis 1 launches) from LC-39A Cape Kennedy Florida. Weather is 90% Go For Launch and the two side core Read More

Marking Halloween, we bring you this recent Copernicus Sentinel-2 image of the Halloween Crack in Antarctica. First spotted on 31 October 2016, the Halloween Crack runs from an area known as McDonald Ice Rumples – which is where the underside of the floating ice sheet is grounded on the shallow seabed. This pinning point slows Read More

In brief 30 university students from 13 different ESA Member States and Malta have attended ESA Academy’s Concurrent Engineering Workshop 2022. Held from 18 to 21 October 2022, the event took place at ESA Academy’s Training and Learning Facility, ESA-ESEC, Belgium -- which is also home to ESA’s educational Concurrent Design Facility (CDF). Providing tuition Read More

There are times when we could all do with a bit of magic in our lives. And, with the Global Climate Observing System announcement of ‘terrestrial water storage’ as a completely new Essential Climate Variable, the world of climate research and climate crisis response would certainly benefit from a satellite mission called MAGIC. The Global Read More

photo Nasa On Dec. 24, 2021, our InSight Mars lander recorded a significant marsquake on the Red Planet. Only later did scientists discover the cause of the shaking: a meteoroid strike estimated to be one of the biggest seen on Mars since NASA began exploring the cosmos.     What’s more, the meteoroid’s impact kicked up Read More

  What:           A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket is in final preparations to launch the Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS)-2 weather satellite for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and NASA and the Low-Earth Orbit Flight Test of an Inflatable Decelerator (LOFTID) for NASA. Where:         Space Launch Complex-3 at Vandenberg Read More

The ATLAS Centre in Villacarrillo, Jaén, will be home to the tests of the European Uspace4UAM project, with ENAIRE taking part as the air navigation service providerUspace4UAM studies the future of urban air mobility integrated with manned air trafficENAIRE air traffic controllers will activate a virtual geo-fence to protect a landing helicopter from an intruding Read More

The first samples to be taken from Mars and sent to Earth will be sourced from Jezero Crater, where the Perseverance rover has been exploring the crater floor and nearby ancient delta.  The location of an initial cache of samples, called Three Forks, is flat and free of obstacles – an ideal spot for a Read More