SPACENEWS

NASA images confirm that the ash cloud is moving across the Mediterranean towards the Balearic Islands by NASA The consequences of the devastating fire that has burned more than 7,000 hectares in Vall d'Ebo since last Saturday are visible from space. The images taken today by NASA's Terra satellite clearly show the dense column of Read More

We all wish that we could sometimes see into the future. Now, thanks to the very latest data from ESA’s star mapping Gaia mission, astronomers can do just that for the Sun. By accurately identifying stars of similar mass and composition, they can see how our Sun is going to evolve in the future. And Read More

..... enabling advanced space missions Adding two microsatellite buses to its flagship MP42, NanoAvionics has now one of the widest ranges of commercially available modular microsatellite buses in the industry At the SmallSat Conference in Logan, Utah, USA, global mission integrator NanoAvionics has announced that it has added two microsatellite buses, the MP42H and the Read More

The complex testing of space technology carried out at ESA’s ESTEC technical centre in the Netherlands requires precisely-maintained environmental control. This industrial chiller seen here, connected to black-insulated piping provides cold water throughout ESTEC’s Test Centre and laboratories, helping to maintain clean rooms and key test equipment at optimal temperatures. “Commissioned in 2017, this installation Read More

Due to upper level winds SpaceX delayed the 6:57 PM EDT 22:58 UTC attempt for Starlink 4-26 to an evening launch at 10:14 PM EDT August 9th 2022 from LC-39A Cape Kennedy Florida.  On board were an additional 52 Starlink Internet satellites for the for the fourth shell in the Starlink constellation. This now makes Read More

by ESA In brief A fireball spotted over Madrid has had its astronomical ancestry unearthed. While it ended its days burning up in Earth’s atmosphere on 31 July this year, the fragment began its life as part of Comet 169P/NEAT, responsible for the annual Alpha Capricornids meteor shower. In-depth Meteor showers occur as Earth passes Read More

Every 60 seconds the equivalent of a lorry-load of plastic enters the global ocean. Where does it end up? Right now, researchers simply don’t know. But in a bid to help find out, an ESA-led project developed floating transmitters whose passage can be tracked over time, helping in turn to guide a sophisticated software model Read More

Not since November 11th 1966 Project Gemini 12 & Agena practice docking stage have there been two orbital class rocket launches in the same day until today! 55.10 years later Cape Canaveral has repeated this moment with SpaceX KPLO Korea's Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter at 7:08 PM from SLC-40 and earlier in the morning ULA United Read More

Missile Warning Satellite for U.S. Space Force Atlas V precisely delivered the last of six SBIRS missions to orbit completing the constellation in support of the warfighter A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket carrying the Space Based Infrared System Geosynchronous Earth Orbit-6 (SBIRS GEO 6) mission for the U.S. Space Force’s Space Systems Read More

…military satelite for the United States Space Force on morning of August 4th 2022! United Launch Alliance Atlas V to Launch Missile Warning Satellite for the U.S. Space Force What: A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket is in final preparations to launch the Space Based Infrared System-6 (SBIRS GEO 6) mission for the Read More