ESA's Planetary Defence team The International Astronomical Union (IAU) has approved the naming of ten asteroids – and one comet – after people and places linked to the European Space Agency’s (ESA) efforts to protect…
ESA ministers commit to biggest ever budget
European Space Agency(ESA)’s Council at Ministerial Level, Space19+, has concluded in Seville, Spain, with the endorsement of the most ambitious plan to date for the future of ESA and the whole European space sector. The…
Creating an Aurora: the Sun sending charged particles…
NASA Goddard's Conceptual Image Lab/K. Kim The creation of an aurora and Steve starts with the Sun sending a surge of charged particles towards Earth. This surge applies pressure on Earth’s magnetic field, which sends…
New Companies Commit to Commercial Lunar Payload Services…
Kevin Wilcox | Appeal Knowledge services Expansion provides a wide array of approaches to landing science and technology on the Moon. Years before the first astronauts of NASA’s Artemis program land on the Moon in…
Vega-C fairing’s trial by sound
The 10-m high fairing of Europe’s inaugural Vega-C launcher atop a structural model of its upper stage, being prepared for acoustic testing within ESA’s Large European Acoustic Facility (LEAF) – which is able to simulate…