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Photos Cocoa Beach Air Show Thunderbirds April 2021 copyright Scott SCHILKE Read More

photo ULA ULA’s next generation rocket to compete for future NASA launches NASA’s Launch Services Program (LSP) has added United Launch Alliance’s next generation rocket, the Vulcan Centaur, to the NASA Launch Services II (NLS) indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contract in accordance with the on-ramp provision of NLS II. “ULA is honored that NASA LSP has Read More

ESA / One of the most comprehensive pictures of our changing planet is now available to the public. Thanks to the close collaboration between Google Earth, ESA, the European Commission, NASA and the US Geological Survey, 24 million satellite photos from the past 37 years have been embedded into a new layer of Google Earth Read More

ESA / What would you do with a powerful space computer that can learn, react, photograph our planet and send and receive information in a variety of forms? The test of all knowledge is experiment, as Richard Feynman once said, and OPS-SAT is the first ESA spacecraft that you can apply to experiment with. Tell Read More

MPA Creative and MPA Commercial to work with world’s first all-electric airplane race series Air Race E – the world’s first all-electric airplane race series – has appointed MPA Creative as its official media and communications agency, whilst MPA Commercial will support the Dubai-based company on its sponsor and partner programme. MPA, which specialises in Read More

On 20 April 2021, ESA will host the 8th European Conference on Space Debris from Darmstadt, in Germany. Scientists, engineers, industry experts and policy makers will spend the virtual four day conference discussing the latest issues surrounding space debris. They will exchange the latest research, try to come up with solutions for potential problems and define Read More

Matthew KuhnsMasten Space Systems Inc. How FAST Landing Pad would be deployed during a mission. Credits: Matthew Kuhns FAST Particle injection in the lander engine (left) and deposition on the surface (right). Credits: Matthew Kuhns As the United States strategizes its return of humans to the Moon in 2024 and beyond per Space Policy Directive Read More

photo NASA Take Flight with the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter We're inviting you to join us for the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter's first attempt at powered, controlled flight on another planet. The helicopter team is targeting no earlier than Sunday, April 11, for the historic first flight. A livestream confirming Ingenuity’s first flight is targeted to begin Read More

Norway's first AIS satellite launched 10 years ago and was one of the first to monitor maritime traffic from space. By Berit Ellingsen AISSat-1, Norway's first national satellite, was launched on the 12th of July 2010. It was one of the first satellites in the world to detect AIS signals in real time from polar Read More

photo copyright NASA When NASA’s Orion spacecraft is nearing its return to Earth after its Artemis I mission to the Moon, it will attempt the first skip entry for a human spacecraft – a maneuver designed to pinpoint its landing spot in the Pacific Ocean. During this skip entry, Orion will dip into the upper Read More