SPACENEWS

ESA As part of ESA’s commitment to develop and build satellite missions that push the boundaries of satellite technology and Earth science, four new mission ideas – Cairt, Nitrosat, Seastar and Wivern – have been selected to enter pre-feasibility study and compete to be the eleventh Earth Explorer mission. This important milestone follows a Call Read More

ESA The world’s first wooden satellite is on the way, in the shape of the Finnish WISA Woodsat. ESA materials experts are contributing a suite of experimental sensors to the mission as well as helping with pre-flight testing. WISA Woodsat is a 10x10x10 cm ‘CubeSat’ – a type of nanosatellite built up from standardised boxes Read More

….at 12:26 AM EDT or 04:26 UTC from space launch complex 40 Cape Canaveral Florida lifting 5,400 Kilogram Sirius XM 8 high power broadcasting satellite into orbit and first stage booster B-1061.3 made a successful landing on Just Read The Instructions 642 kilometers down range. The 18th launch for SpaceX in 2021. 17th reflight booster Read More

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During partly cloudy skies NASA and SpaceX launched the CRS-22 mission with Cargo Dragon C209-1 a new upgraded version on top of a brand new first stage rocket booster B-1067.1 carrying a vital 7,300 pounds of supplies, equipment and state of the art science investigations to the International Space Station at 1:29 PM EDT or Read More

The clouds are building and storms are expected tonight and tomorrow with the weather deteriorating to 60% go for this NASA SpaceX CRS-22 mission to resupply the International Space Station with 7,300 pounds of equipment, supplies and science experiments! Planned liftoff is on June 3rd 2021 at 1:29 PM EDT or 17:29 UTC from historic Read More

ESA On Tuesday 1 June, teachers and students from France, Estonia, and Austria will connect live with ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet, currently living and working on the International Space Station (ISS). Join the livestream! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axwEhXmqX2M Teachers will be asking questions directly to Thomas Pesquet around the theme of Sustaining space: recycling resources. A livestream of Read More

ESA / Keeping information secure in today’s interconnected world is becoming ever more important, so ESA is supporting efforts to ensure that future communications are kept confidential. A new generation of supercomputing power, delivered by quantum computers, is currently being developed that will be almost unimaginably powerful at cracking the most complex problems upon which Read More

ESA A series of fascinating new learning resources are enabling teachers in the UK to encourage the next generation of climate pioneers. The freely available lesson plans and activities – which add to ESA’s portfolio of space-powered climate learning materials – were highlighted at the Climate Change Teacher Conference, a live-streamed online summit for British Read More

May 26th 2021 A gorgeous blue sky on time liftoff at 2:59 PM EDT or 18:59 UTC for SpaceX and their 28th V1.0 Starlink mission carrying another batch of 60 internet satellites which now makes 1,666 in the SpaceX constellation. First stage booster B-1063.2 made a perfect landing on the autonomous drone ship JRTI Just Read More