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The mission to return martian samples back to Earth will see a European 2.5 metre-long robotic arm pick up tubes filled with precious soil from Mars and transfer them to a rocket for an historic interplanetary delivery.The sophisticated...
Proba-V Companion Cubesat (PVCC), is well on track for its launch at Europe’s space port Kourou, in French Guiana. The small, low-cost satellite is the next step in Belgium’s pioneering role in actionable and affordable global environmental monitoring. Initiated by...
ReOrbit is a provider of satellites that can interconnect and autonomously operate in orbit with minimal dependency of the underlying hardware. As part of the demonstration of ReOrbit’s in-orbit satellite autonomy and networking, ReOrbit has signed a contract with...
ArianeGroup has received a 50-million-euro agreement from the European Space Agency (ESA) to continue the development of PHOEBUS, a super-light carbon composite upper stage demonstrator. This work will enable development of the next Ariane6 upper stage, by raising the...
This 10-cm box will make history as the smallest radar instrument to be flown in space – and the very first radar to probe the interior of an asteroid. Its target? The Dimorphos asteroid, which on the night of...
Our James Webb Space Telescope has captured a new image of the famous Pillars of Creation—first imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope in 1995—that reveals new details about the region.
The three-dimensional pillars look like majestic rock formations but are...
The kinetic impact of NASA’s DART spacecraft with the Dimorphos asteroid around its larger Didymos parent body has succeeded in shifting its orbit, meaning humankind’s first planetary defence test has been successful.
Original article from ESA
Observations are continuing of the...
Astra propulsion systems to be used in Astroscale’s space sustainability spacecraft platform
Astra Space, Inc. today announced that it has reached an agreement with Astroscale Holdings Inc, the market leader in satellite servicing and long-term orbital sustainability across all orbits,...
Original article from ESA blogs
A minuscule special ingredient blended with satellite materials could lead to significant mass savings for future missions.
An ESA project with Adamant Composites in Greece tested how the addition of graphene – microscopic flakes of carbon...
This simulation of ESA’s Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) space truck reentering Earth’s atmosphere starts by representing the surrounding of the spacecraft as a three-dimensional cloud of interconnected points, a so-called ‘computational grid’. This forms part of the process...
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