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Join the 3D design in Education for beginners online training! NEW dates available. Teach with Space Online TrainingNEW Dates: 10 & 15 March 2021Time: 16.30h - 18.30h CET Duration: 4 hours, divided in 2 sessions of 2hLanguage: English Pre-requisites: the training is for beginners and it assumes no previous knowledge of 3D designCertification: a certification Read More

The Atlas V Rocket Launched NASA’s Perseverance Rover and Every Other U.S. Mission to Mars What: A United Launched Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket launched NASA’s Mars 2020 mission with the Perseverance rover and Ingenuity helicopter on July 30, 2020. After a seven-month journey, the rover is planning to land on Mars on Thurs., Feb Read More

ESA & UNOOSA on: satellites vs debris check here https://soundcloud.com/esa/satellites-vs-debris Read More

Prepping for a 3,147 miles trip to Boca Chica Texas from Marco Island Florida did take some planning in advance including two 24 hour drives to get there and arrive back home. Battling with blinding rain and heavy thunderstorm at 3:00 AM EST in Mississippi was taxing but when you finally turn onto Texas highway Read More

NASA crew members of the SpaceX Crew-4 mission to the International Space Station. Pictured from left are NASA astronauts Kjell Lindgren and Bob Hines. NASA has assigned two crew members to launch on the agency’s SpaceX Crew-4 mission – the fourth crew rotation flight of the Crew Dragon spacecraft to the International Space Station. NASA Read More

Dazzling instruments that capture breathtakingly detailed images of the Sun have sparked an artistic collaboration that is airing on primetime television. The video shows how artist Melanie King has reimagined representations of the scientific instruments on board the ESA-led Solar Orbiter spacecraft, painted using light-sensitive chemicals and illuminated with ultraviolet light. The result is a Read More

This week’s NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope Picture of the Week features an impressive portrait of M1-63, a beautifully captured example of a bipolar planetary nebula located in the constellation of Scutum (the Shield). A nebula like this one is formed when the star at its centre sheds huge quantities of material from its outer layers, Read More

For Valentine’s Day, the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over Valentine Island in northern Western Australia. The tiny Valentine Island, visible in the top-left of the image, measures around 1.6 km in length and around 250 m wide. The island is located in the King Sound, a large gulf and inlet of the Indian Ocean Read More

In early 2019, all eyes were fixed on the Brunt Ice Shelf in Antarctica, where a massive iceberg, around the size of Greater London, appeared poised to break off. Almost two years later, the berg is desperately clinging on, although current data indicate calving is imminent. A new crack, spotted in images captured by the Read More

This image features the southeast wall of a small crater located a few hundred kilometres to the north of the giant Hellas impact basin on Mars. The complete crater itself is about 12 km in diameter; this image shows a 5 x 10 km area. The Colour and Stereo Surface Imaging System (CaSSIS) onboard the Read More