Tag: ESA
Asteroid Day: ESA withdraws from its forecasts a potential collision in 2052
Eric Bottlaender Space specialist June 30, 2022 at 1:14 p.m. 2 It is easy to understand why it became the asteroid detected with the weakest visual signature! © ESO/O. Hainault…
China may try to bring back samples from Mars two years before NASA and ESA
Eric Bottlaender Space specialist June 27, 2022 at 6:14 p.m. 17 Artist’s impression of China’s first Mars mission, Tianwen-1. © S.A.S.T. While NASA and the European Space Agency prepare for…
Airbus: contract with ESA for the LISA mission
Airbus announces that it has won a contract with the European Space Agency (ESA) to continue developing the implementation of LISA (Laser Interferometer Space Antenna), a scientific mission aimed at…
ESA boss Aschbacher: “A second race into space”
An this Friday morning at 6:43 a.m., Matthias Maurer, the German ESA astronaut, landed back on Earth after a long stay on the International Space Station. The most suitable lecture…
Russia again claims to aim for the Moon (but it will be without the ESA)
Eric Bottlaender Space specialist April 14, 2022 at 4:05 p.m. 16 Real size model of the Luna-25 lander. © Roscosmos Visiting the new site of Vostochnyi On Monday, Vladimir Putin…
ESA releases Russia for its return to the Moon
The European Space Agency is withdrawing from Luna, the Russian program to return to the Moon with landers. Russia’s invasion war in Ukraine continues to strain relations between the European…
E3 2022: the digital edition will not take place, the event is canceled, see you in 2023 for a “new format”
On the eve of April 1st, which has already started in some countries, caution is required in the video game world, so this is not the ideal time to make…
Dane Andreas Mogensen (ESA) will be Crew Dragon’s first non-American pilot
Eric Bottlaender Space specialist March 25, 2022 at 3:00 p.m. 0 Andreas Mogensen is not the best known of the 2009 selection. Credits: ESA His first flight in 2015 only…
Solar Orbiter: ESA probe comes closer to the sun than ever before
Hans Christian Dirscherl On Saturday, the ESA Solar Orbiter probe will come as close as 48 million kilometers to our sun. The probe is said to take the highest resolution…
ESA commissions Thales to produce oxygen on the Moon
Eric Bottlaender Space specialist March 10, 2022 at 6:10 p.m. 23 To take from the lunar soil… To extract its oxygen? © ESA After ground tests and a selection of…
Thales: contract with ESA for oxygen on the Moon
(CercleFinance.com) – Thales Alenia Space, a joint venture between Thales (67%) and Leonardo (33%), announces that it has signed a study contract worth one million euros with the European Space…
European astronauts plead for ESA to get its manned spaceflight program
Eric Bottlaender Space specialist February 17, 2022 at 5:40 p.m. 8 Class of 2008 astronauts are proactive on the subject. Credits: ESA In a rare joint declaration on the occasion…