Space Debris

A fragment of the Mundrabilla meteorite. (James Wampler) PETER DOCKRILL 24 MARCH 2020 Scientists have found naturally occurring superconducting materials in extraterrestrial objects for the first time, discovering superconductive grains embedded inside two distinct meteorites that crash-landed on Earth. The discovery is just the latest to show that meteorites are…

AI Helping to commercialize space Getty Even before modern computers became a reality, science fiction gave us a plethora of examples of artificial intelligence and smart robots in the context of outer space. From Hal in 2001: A Space Odyssey and the computer on Star Trek to C3PO and R2D2…

Panorama of the Main Control Room at ESOC, ESA's European Space Operations Centre, Darmstadt, Germany, taken in 2012. Credit: ESA/J. Mai, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO Responsible for spacecraft orbiting Earth, the Sun and exploring the Solar System, teams at ESA's ESOC mission control deal with in-flight challenges every day, from…

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Responsible for spacecraft orbiting Earth, the Sun and exploring the Solar System, teams at ESA's ESOC mission control deal with in-flight challenges every day, from faulty hardware, problematic software and hazardous space debris to computer viruses that could affect ground stations. So how do they keep missions flying when a…

ESA Mission Control Adjusts To Coronavirus Conditions, ESA "Responsible for spacecraft orbiting Earth, the Sun and exploring the Solar System, teams at ESA's ESOC mission control deal with in-flight challenges every day, from faulty hardware, problematic software and hazardous space debris to computer viruses that could affect ground stations. So…

Enabling & Support 18/03/2020 2155 views 34 likes Responsible for spacecraft orbiting Earth, the Sun and exploring the Solar System, teams at ESA’s ESOC mission control deal with in-flight challenges every day, from faulty hardware, problematic software and hazardous space debris to computer viruses that could affect ground stations. So…

This was SpaceX's sixth launch of 2020. SpaceX SpaceX successfully launched 60 more Starlink satellites into orbit today, Wednesday, March 18, bringing its total number of satellites in orbit up to nearly 360 – after some space operations around the world have been put on hold due to the ongoing…

Representational Image (NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona/Lockheed Martin)The solar system—home to our planet Earth—formed around 4.5 billion years ago. Cosmic dust, meteorites, and asteroids floating around the solar system form important evidence in understanding the early history of the solar system. Most of these space rubble orbit the Sun and one such…

Home News Science & Astronomy A train of SpaceX Starlink satellites is seen in the night sky in this still from a video captured by satellite tracker Marco Langbroek in Leiden, the Netherlands on May 24, 2019, just one day after SpaceX launched its first 60-satellite batch of Starlink internet…