A trio of CubeSats that will study the effects of space weather on the Earth’s radiation belts and magnetic field are being prepared for launch. TRIO-CINEMA is a collaboration between […]
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NASA Developing Comet Harpoon for Sample Return
The best way to grab a sample of a rotating comet that is racing through the inner solar system at up to 150,000 miles per hour while spewing chunks of […]
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Proba-1 charting Earth’s radiation belts for a decade
ESA’s Proba-1 recently celebrated its tenth birthday in orbit. Kept busy as an Earth-observing mission, the microsatellite has also been building a detailed picture of changes in our planet’s radiation […]
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Asteroid Lutetia: Postcard from the Past
ESA’s Rosetta spacecraft has revealed asteroid Lutetia to be a primitive body, left over as the planets were forming in our Solar System. Results from Rosetta’s fleeting flyby also suggest […]
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NASA’S Juno Spacecraft Launches To Jupiter
NASA’s solar-powered Juno spacecraft lifted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station at 12:25 p.m. EDT Friday to begin a five-year journey to Jupiter. Juno’s detailed study of the largest […]
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NASA’s Dawn Spacecraft Begins Science Orbits of Vesta
NASA’s Dawn spacecraft, the first ever to orbit an object in the main asteroid belt, is spiraling towards its first of four intensive science orbits. That initial orbit of the […]
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GIOVE missions serving as Galileo’s radiation watchdogs
Many experts forecast the space weather to be stormy. After years of inactivity, the Sun is waking up, perhaps profoundly affecting Earth’s space environment and the satellites orbiting through it […]
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ESA Controllers Buy Time To Fix Glitches on Comet Chaser
PARIS — European Space Agency (ESA) officials said June 15 that their $1.4 billion Rosetta comet-chaser spacecraft has been put into a slow spin and switched off for a 2.5-year hibernation period that they hope will give them enough time to overcome attitude-control and propulsion system problems.
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Take part in ESA’s Cool Comet Campaign
Do you use Twitter? Are you as intrigued by comets as we are? Then tell us ‘Why comets are cool’ and you might win a trip to ESA’s operations centre […]
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Mars’ Rapid Formation Explains Its Small Size Relative to Earth
Mars developed in as little as two to four million years after the birth of the solar system, far more quickly than Earth, according to results of a new study […]
