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BepiColombo Mission To Mercury Will Be Launched In October This Year

BepiColombo project is the first space mission to Mercury to explore the planet with an aircraft that will be launched in October this year and will arrive in Mercury’s orbit in 2025. This is a joint mission of the European…

May 20, 2018 ·by Vadim Caraiman· 0

SPICA Telescope To Study The Formation And Evolution Of Galaxies Reached Final Phase In ESA M5 Mission Trials

The SPICA (SPace IR telescope for Cosmology and Astrophysics), the infrared space telescope for cosmology and astrophysics, has been selected from 25 proposals submitted for the final phase of study and development of the next European Space Agency (ESA) Class…

May 10, 2018 ·by Jeffrey Olmsted· 0

Gaia Satellite Of The ESA Created The Largest Milky Way Sky Map Ever With About 1.7 Billion Stars

The ESA’s project, Gaia, opens new roads for astronomers to study the origin and evolution of the Milky Way. The data sent by the Gaia satellite of the European Space Agency (ESA) on the position, distances, and brightness of 1,7 billion…

April 25, 2018 ·by Jeffrey Olmsted· 0

As The TESS Mission Was Postponed, Let’s Recap The Most Important Exoplanets Hunters In History

NASA’s TESS mission, whose launch has been delayed until Wednesday, April 18th, will be responsible for detecting exoplanets and Earth-like planets. But it isn’t the first one with this mission. Let’s remember together some of the most important exoplanets “hunters”.…

April 17, 2018 ·by Jeffrey Olmsted· 0

ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter Of ESA Is Getting Ready To Start Its Mission

The ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) mission of the European Space Agency (ESA) is ready to commence. ExoMars TGO has the goal to measure trace gases in the Mars atmosphere to detect active geological processes but also to see if…

April 9, 2018 ·by Jeffrey Olmsted· 0

ASIM Observatory Arrived On ISS And Is Ready To Study Transient Light Events and Terrestrial Gamma-Ray Flashes

ASIM, an observatory specialized in the study of stratospheric light events has arrived at the International Space Station (ISS) for its installation in the Columbus module of the orbital complex. The ASIM Observatory (Atmosphere-Space Interactions Monitor) of the ESA, weighing…

April 4, 2018 ·by Vadim Caraiman· 0

Space Debris Is Again A Subject Of Debate For Scientists, Companies, NASA, And ESA

With all that frenzy surrounding the fall of the Chinese Tiangong-1 space station, the scientists started to reignite the debates on space pollution and the measures to be taken to regulate it. Sometimes invisible to the human eye, space debris can…

March 31, 2018 ·by Jeffrey Olmsted· 0

Pyramids Of Giza Captured In A Stunning Image From Space Made By ESA Proba-1 Satellite

The Pyramids of Giza have been fascinating archaeologists and history fans for centuries, and it’s probably not about to change. As a proof of this, last week, ESA published a photo of these magnificent monuments seen from the sky, or…

March 31, 2018 ·by Jeffrey Olmsted· 0

ESA Will Launch Its ARIEL Mission For Finding And Studying Exoplanets In Mid-2028

The European Space Agency (ESA) has just declared that it has decided to launch the ARIEL (Atmospheric Remote Sensing Exoplanet Large-survey) mission during mid-2028. Also, ESA announced that ARIEL mission will last for 4 years. ARIEL mission According to the…

March 21, 2018 ·by Jeffrey Olmsted· 0

Russia Will Launch An Unmanned Mission To Mars Next Year, According To Vladimir Putin

Russia will launch an unmanned mission to Mars in 2019, and later, the Russian specialists will try to make landings on the poles of the Moon, according to a statement made by Russian President Vladimir Putin. The future Russian missions will…

March 15, 2018 ·by Vadim Caraiman· 0

A Dead Star Revived For A Short Period Helped By Its Former Companion, A Dying Red Giant

According to a new study, the massively dense remains of a dead star revived for a short period of time after absorbing the energy of its former companion star which is a dying red giant. The European Space Agency’s (ESA)…

March 9, 2018 ·by Jeffrey Olmsted· 0