SPACENEWS

Innovative satellite-enabled technology that delivers photos of amateur sporting events to competitors in seconds has been showcased at a 5k run held at Harwell campus in the UK. Backed by ESA, British firm AWOL began developing the service in 2020 and it is now used at triathlons, marathons and swimming events across the country. ESA’s Read More

Just a few of the more than 4 500 visitors who converged on ESA’s ESTEC technical centre in the Netherlands this weekend. photo ESA On Saturday 1 October an ESA Open Day for people with disabilities took place, allowing them to explore the Agency’s largest establishment at their own pace in a quiet environment. That Read More

  What:           A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket is in final preparations to launch the SES-20 and SES-21 mission. The SES-20 and SES-21 mission features two twin all-electric 702SP satellites equipped with C-band payloads that will usher in the Federal Communications Commission’s 5G Fast initiative. Where:            Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Read More

During spring and summer, as the air warms up and the sun beats down on the Greenland Ice Sheet, melt ponds pop up. Melt ponds are vast pools of open water that form on both sea ice and ice sheets and are visible as turquoise-blue pools of water in this Copernicus Sentinel-2 image. When snow Read More

The first of Europe’s Meteosat Third Generation satellites is now safely aboard a ship and making its way across the Atlantic to French Guiana where it will be readied for liftoff in December. Once launched into geostationary orbit, 36 000 km above Earth, this new satellite, which carries two new extremely sensitive instruments, will take Read More

What do you call three or more space fanatics? Interns. Imagine landing your dream internship at the European Astronaut Centre (EAC), and then being unable to go into work. A group of excellent young professionals found themselves in this situation during the pandemic. This week, however, 23 of these interns finally got their opportunity to Read More

In brief ESPRIT is the name for ESA’s elements for the Lunar Gateway, and part of Europe’s contribution to the creation of the international outpost orbiting the Moon. The name is an abbreviation of European System Providing Refueling Infrastructure and Telecommunication, that shows the variety of functions that ESPRIT provides to the lunar Gateway. In-depth Read More

47% of the approaches authorised in Málaga in 2021 were green, the highest of any major European airportThe airports of Gran Canaria (43%), Palma (38%), Barcelona (36%) and Madrid (28%) also stood out in this metricThis helps save fuel in aircraft and reduces atmospheric emissionsThe average use of "green" descents in Spain between January and Read More

Swiss watch brand Omega has teamed up with ESA to launch the Marstimer: the first watch to display the time on Earth and Mars. Developed in partnership with ESA’s Mars exploration teams and tested at ESA ESTEC, this new watch is space-tough and Mars-mission ready. ESA/Omega Marstimer launch event The Marstimer watch was officially unveiled Read More

Two of the great space observatories, the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope and the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, have captured views of a unique experiment to smash a spacecraft into a small asteroid. Observations of NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) impact mark the first time that Webb and Hubble were used to simultaneously observe Read More