Front Page / Titelseite
For 20 years, NASA satellites have monitored Earth from space, tracking the pulse of life in seasonal patterns as heat moves around the planet, sea ice grows and shrinks, and vegetation…
A large, dark „hole“ has opened up in the sun’s atmosphere, allowing solar winds to rush out into space – an ordinary occurrence, but a spectacular one to see. NASA’s Solar Dynamics…
Sky watchers are on the lookout for China’s Tiangong-1 space lab – and the seeing is good. Tiangong-1 („Heavenly Palace“) was hurled into Earth orbit in late September 2011. It was used for…
LITTLETON, Colo. – NASA’s next Mars lander just passed a big test ahead of its planned May 2018 launch. The spacecraft, known as InSight (short for „Interior Exploration using Seismic…
International Spacestation (ISS) /
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While Americans all over the country will celebrate Thanksgiving with their families, the Expedition 53 crewmembers on the International Space Station will need to stay where they are – in…
The six-member Expedition 53 crew heads into Thanksgiving observing how living in space affects the human body and packing the Cygnus cargo craft. The orbital crewmates are also preparing…
An experimental module attached to the International Space Station is being prepared for upcoming cargo operations. Tiny research satellites were also ejected from the orbital lab while a…
More CubeSats were ejected from the International Space Station today to demonstrate and validate new technologies. Back inside the orbital lab, the Expedition 53 crew continued outfitting…
If you want to make the case that spaceflight is about to take a giant leap, SpaceX’s next cargo run to the International Space Station (ISS) for NASA could be Exhibit A. That mission,…
Expedition 53 checked out a specialized microscope and worked on the International Space Station’s toilet today. More supplies and hardware are also being offloaded from the newly-arrived…
Earth / Erde
ULA’s Delta II rocket was forced to abandon a nighttime launch attempt from California in the early hours on Tuesday due to a technical issue with the rocket’s second stage engine actuator…
The second-to-last Delta II rocket lit up the night over California’s Vandenberg Air Force Base in the early hours on Saturday, taking to the skies with the JPSS-1 Weather Satellite for…
The penultimate Delta II rocket lifted off from SLC-2W at California’s Vandenberg Air Force Base on Saturday, November 18, 2017 at 9:47:36 UTC with the first satellite in the Joint Polar…
The penultimate Delta II rocket lifted off from SLC-2W at California’s Vandenberg Air Force Base on Saturday, November 18, 2017 at 9:47:36 UTC with the first satellite in the Joint Polar…
This is an article from Curious Kids, a series for children. The Conversation is asking kids to send in questions they’d like an expert to answer. All questions are welcome – serious, weird…
Presseeinladung: Der Copernicus-Satellit Sentinel-5P liefert erste Daten zur Luftverschmutzung Der am 13. Oktober gestartete Copernicus-Satellit Sentinel-5P hat erste Aufnahmen zur…
A gorgeous video shows off a weather model from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. The Goddard Earth Observing System (GEOS) uses data from NASA satellites and computer models to track…
Melting ice affects sea level rise differently depending on where it happens, according to a new model NASA is using to study the changing climate. The tool will help predict how the…
Solar System / Sonnensystem
The surface of Mars, with its dune flows, gullies and slope movements, is the result of sediment being transported downwards in the recent past as well as today. But this „mass wasting“,…
Dark features on Mars previously considered evidence for subsurface flowing of water are interpreted by new research as granular flows, where grains of sand and dust slip downhill to make…
Die Gräben Sirenum Fossae sind durch Tektonik entstanden und verlaufen über tausende von Kilometern über die Marsoberfläche. Ihre Entstehung hängt wahrscheinlich mit magmatischer…
The Cassini spacecraft’s farewell photo of Saturn is something to behold. On Sept. 13 – two days before its intentional death dive into the ringed planet’s thick atmosphere – Cassini took…
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory manages the Juno mission for the principal investigator, Scott Bolton, of Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio. Juno is part of NASA’s New Frontiers…
NASA’s Juno spacecraft captured a spectacular view of a monstrous Jupiter storm that resembles the swirling pastel clouds of a Vincent van Gogh painting. The new image was taken on Oct. 24…
Beyond Solar System / Milchstraße & Kosmos
The dwarf galaxy NGC 4625, located about 30 million light-years away in the constellation of Canes Venatici (The Hunting Dogs) is much larger in the ultraviolet than it appears here.
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The super-Earth exoplanet 55 Cancri e, depicted with its star in this artist’s concept, likely has an atmosphere thicker than Earth’s, with ingredients that could be similar to those of…
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Ist es möglich, die Sonde New Horizons nach dem Besuch bei 2014 MU69 noch an weiteren Kuipergürtel-Objekten vorbeifliegen zu lassen?
Politics / Politik
NASA’s Fiscal Year 2017 Financial Audit Result „NASA has received an unmodified audit opinion on its Fiscal Year 2017 (FY 2017) financial statements, making this the seventh consecutive…
LUXEMBOURG CITY – The president of SpaceX said she expects the company would receive additional funding from the U.S. government to support the development of its large reusable launch…
Technology / Technologie
NASA engineers will focus the James Webb Space Telescope from afar once it reaches space – and a new video from the agency shows how. The James Webb Space Telescope, scheduled to launch in…
ESA’s Integral space observatory has been orbiting Earth for 15 years, observing the ever-changing, powerful and violent cosmos in gamma rays, X-rays and visible light. Studying stars…
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WALLOPS ISLAND, Va. – NASA may decide to allow SpaceX to use a previously-flown Falcon 9 first stage on the next Dragon mission to the International Space Station, the latest sign that…
Orbital ATK is gearing up for the company’s second Cygnus mission of the year, targeting liftoff atop an upgraded Antares 200-series rocket Saturday morning from the Wallops Flight…
Smartphone-Technologie, Apps, Virtual und Augmented Reality sind auch für die Raumfahrt interessant. Wie und wo sie innovativ eingesetzt werden können, das erforschen der ESA Spezialist…
The ancient art of origami has inspired designs for numerous pieces of hardware on NASA missions, allowing scientists to pack more technology into smaller space-bound packages. For example,…
SpaceX plans to launch a secret payload known as Zuma on Thursday evening (Nov. 16), from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC) on Florida’s Space Coast. And when I say secret, I mean secret;…
SpaceX successfully conducted the Static Fire Test of the Falcon 9 rocket tasked with the ultra-secretive Zuma mission as early as Wednesday night from Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy…
WASHINGTON – As the deadline nears for an Air Force competition to fund development of new launch vehicles, Orbital ATK announced Nov. 7 what it called an „important milestone“ for its…
Next stop, space? A spacesuit from Final Frontier Design did its third round of Canadian flight testing last month in preparation for eventual space tourist flights. Between Oct. 2 and 5,…
China’s Long March 6 rocket carried out its second flight on Tuesday to lift a trio of Jilin-1 high-resolution video satellites into orbit to join a growing constellation of commercial…
Lavahöhlen könnten auf dem Mond oder auf anderen Himmelskörpern ideale Orte für die Einrichtung eines Basislagers sein, wären die Astronauten doch hier vor einem Großteil der…
The Molniya 1K-44 Communications Satellite re-entered the atmosphere on October 23, 2017 after 38 years in orbit, slowly decaying from its elliptical Molniya Orbit that once peaked around…
A Falcon 9 second stage re-entered the atmosphere on November 2, 2017 after spending four and a half months slowly spiraling down toward the atmosphere from a Geostationary Transfer Orbit….
Your kids‘ classroom may be a bit cooler this year than yours ever was. While kids slogged their way through the first days of school, NASA launched A Year in Education on Station (YES), a…
Ingenieure halten es für möglich, winzige Sonde mithilfe von starken Lasern auf so hohe Geschwindigkeiten zu beschleunigen, dass sich der sonnennächste Stern innerhalb von einigen…
Entertainment / Unterhaltung
The true story of 13 women who underwent the same medical testing as NASA’s original Mercury astronauts at the start of the space age is being developed as a new miniseries for Amazon….
Sally Ride, the first American woman in space, and Mae Jemison, the first African-American woman in space, were both pioneers in their fields. Ride was a physicist and entrepreneur as well…
One windy day in December 1903, Orville Wright took to the sky in the first heavier-than-air vehicle to stay aloft. The Wright brothers‘ first flight lasted 12 seconds, but it ushered in a…
World / Welt
Transferring ownership of three ESA ground stations Villafranca tracking station 1977 As part of ESA’s strategy to foster commercial competitiveness in Europe while focusing on its core…
WASHINGTON – An agreement to do engine testing at a NASA center is the latest sign that Stratolaunch is considering developing its own launch vehicle for its giant aircraft. The Space Act…
Keith’s note: There is a lot of talk these days about yet another pivot in America’s civilian space policy. This time it is „back“ to the Moon. Mars is not off the agenda – but it is not…
WASHINGTON – XCOR Aerospace, a company that for nearly 20 years had been working on rocket engines and a suborbital spaceplane, filed for bankruptcy Nov. 8 after it was unable to line up…
NASA Headquarters in Washington, D.C., houses the higher-ups responsible for charting the space agency’s course and implementing its vision. For the record, that vision is: „To reach for…
Well, this should liven up everyone’s Thanksgiving weekend. A flat-Earth enthusiast who claims not to believe in science plans to launch himself 1,800 feet (550 meters) above California’s…
While rocket science is notoriously tough to understand, a new book by an aerospace engineer shows it can be explained in a simple way. The book, „Rocket Science,“ discusses orbits and…
Science / Wissenschaft
Interview mit Prof. Heike Rauer und Prof. Tilman Spohn Prof. Heike Rauer und Prof. Tilman Spohn im Gespräch Seit dem 1. November 2017 leitet Prof. Dr. Heike Rauer das DLR-Institut für…
Space weather refers to the environmental conditions in space as influenced by solar activity.In Europe’s economy today, numerous sectors can potentially be affected by space weather. These…
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Das einfache Bild der Aktivität von Kometen – die Sonnenwärme treibt Eis in den Gaszustand, und Staubteilchen werden mitgerissen – trifft nicht immer zu: Das zeigt die umfassende Analyse…
The mysteriously cold vortex of air whirling above the south pole of Saturn’s moon Titan may result from its atmosphere’s unique chemistry, a new study finds. This cold winter polar vortex…
History / Geschichte
The Apollo program changed forever on Jan. 27, 1967, when a flash fire swept through the Apollo 1 command module during a launch rehearsal test. The three men inside perished despite the…
Richard „Dick“ Gordon was one of the first NASA astronauts to fly to space, first as pilot of Gemini 11 in 1966, then as Apollo 12 command module pilot in 1969. He passed away on Nov. 6,…
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