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Front Page / Titelseite ESA plans mission to smallest asteroid ever visited ESA’s planet-defending Hera mission will set a new record in space. The asteroid investigator will not only be the first spacecraft to explore a binary asteroid system – the Didymos pair – but the smaller of these two worldlets, comparable in size to … Read More “Spacecraft Mission News (English, German) – 21.02.19” »
Front Page / Titelseite ISS: NASA 8K-Video NASA’s 1st 8K Video from Space Is Just Awesome High-definition video has a new home: the International Space Station. A new video from NASA shows the astronauts working on their experiments, recorded in 8K imagery so clear that it makes it feel like you’re floating right alongside them. … Read More “Spacecraft Mission News (English, German) – 08.11.18” »
Front Page / Titelseite Hayabusa 2 – Mascot Lander – Asteroid Ryugu MASCOT landet auf Asteroid Ryugu Endlich ist es so weit! Die Mission der japanischen Raumsonde Hayabusa 2 erreicht morgen (am 3. Oktober 2018) einen ihrer Höhepunkte. Ende Juni ist die Sonde beim Asteroid Ryugu angekommen. Im August hat Hayabusa 2 die ersten Nahaufnahmen … Read More “Spacecraft Mission News (English, German) – 04.10.18” »
Front Page / Titelseite Launch of Russian Rokot with Sentinel 3B ESA Satellite youtube.com Europe launches seventh Sentinel Earth observation satellite Europe has launched the seventh of its Sentinel Earth observation satellites as part of its multi-billion-euro Copernicus program to help predict weather phenomena such as El Nino and track the progress of global … Read More “Spacecraft Mission News (English, German) – 26.04.18” »
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” »
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 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 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” »