Sign across space
Technology image of the week: Infrared and phosphorescent satellite markers could help future space servicing vehicles home in on targets
Source: ESA news
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Bedbound commander
Human and robotic exploration image of the week: bedrest study participants test their spacecraft piloting skills
Source: ESA news
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Apr
2019
New comet viewer
Space Science Image of the Week: One of 70 000 images to explore in a new tool launched by Rosetta’s comet imaging team
Source: ESA news
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Apr
2019
Earth vs. asteroids: humans strike back
Incoming asteroids have been scarring our home planet for billions of years. This month humankind left our own mark on an asteroid for the first time: Japan’s Hayabusa2 spacecraft dropped a copper projectile at very high speed in an attempt to form a crater on asteroid Ryugu. A much bigger asteroid impact is planned for the coming decade, involving an international double-spacecraft mission.
Source: ESA news
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Apr
2019
Cassini reveals deep lakes on Titan
On its final flyby of Saturn’s largest moon in 2017, the Nasa-Esa-Asi Cassini spacecraft gathered radar data revealing that the small liquid lakes in Titan’s northern hemisphere are surprisingly deep, perched atop hills and filled with methane.
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Source: ASI news
16
Apr
2019
Suspended animation
Human and robotic exploration image of the week: Luca Parmitano practicing for spacewalk to repair dark-matter hunter
Source: ESA news
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Apr
2019
A stellar Easter egg
Space Science Image of the Week: Unwrapping the Egg Nebula to reveal the late stages of a star’s life
Source: ESA news
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Apr
2019
Seeking innovative ideas: space for the oceans
ESA seeks your ideas for applying space technology to Earth-based problems. Through the Open Space Innovation Platform, a new challenge-based website, the Agency is hunting out bright ideas to monitor plastic waste polluting the oceans, and to improve the self-steering abilities of ships.
Source: ESA news
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Apr
2019
ESA opening up to new ideas
ESA aims to harness a new resource for future space activities: ideas from European researchers, businesses and the general public. Through its new Open Space Innovation Platform (OSIP), anyone is welcome to respond to space-related challenges.
Source: ESA news
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Apr
2019
Watch our Galileo smartphone app award and vote for your winner
On Thursday 18 April, you are cordially invited to view the final presentations of ESA’s second Galileo smartphone app competition – to develop an app capable of performing fixes using raw Galileo satnav measurements – as well as put your own vote in for your favourite.
Source: ESA news