Video: asteroid deflection
ESA’s proposed Hera mission is part of an international cooperation aimed at testing whether the orbit of an asteroid can be shifted by smashing into it. Watch its full mission profile
Source: ESA news
ESA’s proposed Hera mission is part of an international cooperation aimed at testing whether the orbit of an asteroid can be shifted by smashing into it. Watch its full mission profile
Source: ESA news
The newly installed International Commercial Experiments service – ICE Cubes for short – facility providing commercial access to microgravity will soon receive the first experiment cubes after today’s successful SpaceX Dragon resupply launch.
Source: ESA news
Get ready for Asteroid Day 2018 and find out what is a near-Earth asteroid and why we should care about them
Source: ESA news
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The world’s first 48-hour webcast about asteroids and their place in space will begin at 12:00 CEST, on Friday, 29 June 2018. Kicking off this exciting event, physicist, science advocate and former rock star Brian Cox will host the first 6-hour segment live from Luxembourg.
Source: ESA news
Operations image of the week: Japan’s Hayabusa2 spacecraft arrived at asteroid Ryugu on 27 June, following a 42-month journey supported in part by ESA ground stations
Source: ESA news
After completion of an independent review, a new launch date for the James Webb Space Telescope has been announced: 30 March 2021.
Source: ESA news
An object from another star system that made a brief appearance in our skies guised as an asteroid turns out to be a tiny interstellar comet.
Source: ESA news
Data from the international Cassini spacecraft have revealed complex organic molecules originating from Saturn’s icy moon Enceladus, strengthening the idea that this ocean-world hosts conditions suitable for life.
Source: ESA news
Technology image of the week: In one of the cleanest places in Europe, an ESA engineer works to reduce the ‘bioburden’ of terrestrial microbes on this ExoMars antenna
Source: ESA news
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