Front Page / Titelseite Goodbye Kepler, hello TESS: Passing the baton in the search for distant planets When NASA first started planning the Kepler mission, no one knew if the universe held any planets outside our solar system. Thousands of exoplanets later, the search enters a new phase. theconversation.com How NASA’s Planet-Hunting TESS Telescope … Read More “Spacecraft Mission News (English, German) – 19.04.18” »
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Front Page / Titelseite ExoMars bereit für den Start der Wissenschaftsmission Der ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) wird bald mit seiner Suche nach Gasen, die auf geologische oder biologische Aktivitäten auf dem Roten Planeten hinweisen, beginnen. esa.int ExoMars spacecraft ready to search for life on Mars European spacecraft in position to start its … Read More “Spacecraft Mission News (English, German) – 12.04.18” »
Front Page / Titelseite Astronaut Alexander Gerst: Künzelsau fiebert dem Weltraumflug seines Ehrenbürgers entgegen In zwei Monaten fliegt der deutsche Astronaut Alexander Gerst erneut in den Weltraum. Die Heimatstadt von „Astro-Alex“ will die Mission für viele Aktionen nutzen. Auch eine Liveschalte ins All ist geplant. stuttgarter-zeitu… Mission Horizons: Erste Experimente auf dem Weg zur … Read More “Spacecraft Mission News (Englisch, German) – 05.04.18” »
Front Page / Titelseite China’s Tiangong-1 Space Lab Expected to Fall to Earth Over Easter Weekend China’s Tiangong-1 space lab will likely fall to Earth between March 30 and April 2, according to the latest prediction by the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Space Debris Office in Darmstadt, Germany. space.com Chinese Space Station’s Crash … Read More “Spacecraft Mission News (English, German) – 29.03.18” »
Front Page / Titelseite A Chinese Space Lab Will Soon Fall From The Sky. Where It Lands, No One Knows Most of the Chinese space lab, the size of a city bus, will burn up in the atmosphere, but some debris may survive re-entry. npr.org Chinesisches Raumlabor Tiangong-1 stürzt ab: Gefahr durch Trümmer eher … Read More “Spacecraft Mission News (English, German) – 22.03.18” »
Front Page / Titelseite Made for Mercury On 6 March 2018, the BepiColombo engineering model was delivered to ESA’s mission control centre in Darmstadt, Germany.BepiColombo – ESA’s first mission to Mercury – is based on two spacecraft: the ESA-led Mercury Planetary Orbiter, with 11 experiments and instruments, and the Japanese sp… esa.int BepiColombo … Read More “Spacecraft Mission News (English, German) – 15.03.16” »
Front Page / Titelseite Expedition 56/57 crew members training Expedition 56/57 crew members Alexander Gerst, Serena Aunon-Chancellor and Sergei Prokopev during Routine Ops training in SVMF. esa.int It Is Time To Hit The NASA Reset Button – NASA Watch Gerstenmaier: U.S. Leadership in Space is “Ours to Lose” If Direction Changes Too Many … Read More “Spacecraft Mission News (English, German) – 08.03.18” »
Front Page / Titelseite Soyuz Parachutes to Safe Landing on Snow-Covered Kazakh Steppe with U.S.-Russian Crew Trio – Soyuz MS-06 | Spaceflight101 A veteran Cosmonaut and two NASA Astronauts parachuted into the sunrise on Wednesday aboard their Soyuz MS-06 spacecraft after a half-year mission to the International Space Station, touching down on the snow-covered … Read More “Spacecraft Mission News (English, German) – 01.03.18” »
Front Page / Titelseite Surfing complete Slowed by skimming through the very top of the upper atmosphere, ESA’s ExoMars has lowered itself into a planet-hugging orbit and is about ready to begin sniffing the Red Planet for methane. esa.int NASA’s New Spacesuit Has a Built-In Toilet NASA is developing a spacesuit with a built-in … Read More “Spacecraft Mission News (English, German) – 22.02.18” »
Front Page / Titelseite Celebrating a decade of orbital science with ESA’s Columbus Laboratory On this day ten years ago, the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Columbus laboratory was launched into orbit, safely nestled in the mammoth cargo bay of the space shuttle Atlantis. newatlas.com ISS: ESA feiert zehn Jahre Weltraumlabor Columbus ISS ESA … Read More “Spacecraft Mission News (English, German) – 15.02.2018” »