Europe opens an Arctic eye on Galileo
(PhysOrg.com) -- Today saw the opening of a remote, northerly site in the worldwide network of Galileo ground stations. The Kiruna Galileo Station in the Swedish Arctic will play a vital role...
View ArticleNASA to demonstrate communications via laser beam
It currently takes 90 minutes to transmit high-resolution images from Mars, but NASA would like to dramatically reduce that time to just minutes. A new optical communications system that NASA plans to...
View ArticleHackers plot DIY Sputniks for Internet freedom
(PhysOrg.com) -- Hackers at the Chaos Communication Congress in Berlin, which wrapped up over the weekend, are toasting the New Year with a newly announced plan for a hacker-owned satellite...
View ArticleGalileo on the ground reaches some of Earth's loneliest places
A worldwide chain of Galileo ground stations on some of the remotest sites on Earth is nearing completion ahead of this years launch of two more satellites.
View ArticleRegolith: Protection for humans on Mars
For six weeks the rover "Curiosity" is now working on Mars. NASA also plans to send humans to Mars within the next 20 years. On the flight and during the stay on Moon or Mars the astronauts have to be...
View ArticleBrightest beacons
Deep-space missions require precise navigation, in particular when approaching bodies such as Mars, Venus or a comet. How precise?
View ArticleEuropean ground stations enable Galileo search and rescue testing
(Phys.org) —ESA's completion of a pair of dedicated ground stations at opposite ends of Europe has enabled Galileo satellites in orbit to participate in global testing of the Cospas–Sarsat search and...
View ArticleESA successfully launches new monitoring satellite
Europe on Thursday launched the first in a constellation of hi-tech satellites designed to monitor Earth for climate change and environmental damage and help disaster relief operations.
View ArticleOzone in Colorado mountains surprises researchers
Researchers say they're surprised by how much harmful ozone and ozone-causing chemicals are drifting into the Colorado mountains from urban and rural areas below.
View ArticleHundreds of ships go missing each year, but we have the technology to find them
The seas are vast. And they claim vessels in significant numbers. The yachts Cheeki Rafiki, Niña, Munetra, Tenacious are just some of the more high-profile names on a list of lost or capsized vessels...
View ArticleImage: Contingency training for the Sentinel-2 mission control team
In this image, Spacecraft Operations Manager Franco Marchese and the Sentinel-2 mission control team are seen during simulation training in the Main Control Room at ESOC, Darmstadt, on 28 April.
View ArticleNew calculations to improve CO2 monitoring from space
How light of different colours is absorbed by carbon dioxide (CO2) can now be accurately predicted using new calculations developed by a UCL-led team of scientists. This will help climate scientists...
View ArticleFirst EarthScope 'transportable array' seismic station reaches U.S. east coast
Yulee, Florida. Not a place one usually thinks of as an Earthquake Epicenter.
View ArticleOPALS project uses laser beams for Earth-space communications
(Phys.org) —You may know opals as fiery gemstones, but something special called OPALS is floating above us in space. On the International Space Station, the Optical Payload for Lasercomm Science...
View ArticleImage: ESA's deep-space tracking station at New Norcia, Australia
This image shows the 35 m-diameter dish antenna of ESA's deep-space tracking station at New Norcia, Australia, illuminated by ground lights against the night sky on 3 August 2015.
View ArticleNASA engineers tapped to build first integrated-photonics modem
A NASA team has been tapped to build a new type of communications modem that will employ an emerging, potentially revolutionary technology that could transform everything from telecommunications,...
View ArticleEyeing climate change, satellites provide missing information
An international team of scientists led by Prof. Daniel Rosenfeld from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem found a way to measure missing critical information needed to quantify manmade responsibility...
View ArticleImage: First contact with Ariane 5
Ariane 5 flight VA229 lifted off yesterday morning at 05:20 GMT (02:20 local time, 06:20 CET) from Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, to deliver a telecom satellite into geostationary orbit.
View ArticleHow Suomi NPP satellite orbits Earth and captures and transmits information home
These images illustrate how the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (Suomi NPP) satellite, a joint NASA/NOAA mission launched in 2011, circles Earth from pole-to-pole in a sun-synchronous orbit,...
View ArticleInvisible NASA network transports satellite secrets to earth
Around the world in 80 days? When Jules Verne wrote the novel, that seemed an impossible speed, but almost 150 years later, a NASA team has reduced the trip to minutes for data coming from some of...
View ArticleStudent satellites fly freely on their orbit in space
For three student teams, the dream of building and working on a real space mission is coming true. At 01:50 CEST (23:50 GMT) today, a trio of student-built CubeSats were released into space as part of...
View ArticleNew technology coordinates drones in team missions
A West Virginia University mathematics researcher has developed an algorithm to mobilize unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in team missions.
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