On August 10th, 2023, ESA’s Space Debris Office was informed by the United States 18th Space Defense Squadron that new objects have been detected in the vicinity of a payload […]
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Canada to contribute to an ESA exoplanet mission
The Canadian Space Agency will contribute to the ESA’s Ariel space telescope mission that will launch in 2029. The first astronomy mission of its kind, Ariel will study the atmospheres […]
Rhodes wildfire in Greece forces thousands to flee
Wildfires burning on the Greek island of Rhodes have forced the evacuation of thousands of people as flames have spread from the island’s mountainous region to the coast. The Copernicus […]
Libre Space Foundation’s 2 Million Euros PHASMA project with ESA for development of three open-source CubeSats
Libre Space Foundation is announcing another major project involving undertaking the PHASMA project regarding the design and development of three open-source CubeSats. The three CubeSats are tasked to oversee the […]
Goonhilly Earth Station to demo UK commercial space comms for 2023 Lunar and solar missions
Goonhilly Earth Station is supporting three lunar and deep space missions to showcase its capabilities “as the only commercial, deep space, ground station in the world,” stated the company. Following […]
ESA’s CanSat 2023 — a total success
From June 26th to the 30th, 26 teams gathered in Granada, Spain, for the 2023 European CanSat Competition, organized by the European Space Agency, and hosted by Producciones Científicas y […]
Arianespace’s flight VA261 mission a success for Ariane 5’s grand finale
On July 5, 2023 at 7:00 p.m. local time, Ariane 5, operated by Arianespace, lifted off flawlessly from Europe’s spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, carrying Heinrich-Hertz-Satellit for the German government and […]
SpaceX launches ESA and NASA’s Euclid on a mission to shed light on dark energy
On Saturday, July 1 at 11:12 a.m. ET, SpaceX launched the ESA Euclid mission to a Sun-Earth L2 transfer orbit, also known as the Sun-Earth Lagrange point 2, from Space […]
ESA tests multi-orbit connectivity linking facilities
Engineers have communicated via video link using connectivity delivered by 5G terrestrial networks and a combination of satellites in different orbits, as part of an experiment led by ESA’s 5G/6G […]
Full ignition for ESA’s Prometheus reusable rocket engine
According to ArianeGroup, which is developing Prometheus under contact to ESA, testing will continue at the end of 2023 at the German aerospace agency DLR’s test site in Lampoldshausen, Germany. […]