Front Page / Titelseite Rosetta ‘post-mission’ – new findings relating to the temperature and nature of the comet’s surface Two-and-a-half years have passed since the operational phase of the Rosetta mission came to an end in September 2016. However, scientific evaluation of the enormous amounts of data from the instruments on the spacecraft and the … Read More “Weekly Spacecraft Mission News (English, German) – 09.05.19” »
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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 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 Tracking stellar motions The video shows the motions of two million stars about 1.1-1.5 million years in the future. It displays a map of the full sky as seen from the Sun. The star initially circled is Gliese 710;… youtube.com Gaia: Unser Sonnensystem kommt nicht zur Ruhe Kometen, die mit … Read More “Spacecraft Mission News (English, German) – 07.09.17” »