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” »
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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 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” »
Front Page / Titelseite SpaceX targeting late January for Falcon Heavy debut – SpaceNews.com SpaceX is now planning to attempt the first launch of its Falcon Heavy rocket around the end of this month, the company’s chief executive said Jan. 4. spacenews.com In Photos: SpaceX’s 1st Falcon Heavy Rocket Readies for Launch SpaceX … Read More “Spacecraft Mission News (English, German) – 11.01.18” »
Front Page / Titelseite The Most Exciting Space Missions to Watch in 2018 China’s Tiangong-1 space lab has been orbiting Earth since September 2011, but it is slated for an uncontrolled re-entry through Earth’s atmosphere in late January or later, officials… space.com Looking Ahead: Space Missions for 2018 – Sky & Telescope The … Read More “Spacecraft Mission News (English, German) – 04.01.18” »
Front Page / Titelseite NASA Hosts Media Teleconference to Announce Latest Kepler Discovery NASA will host a media teleconference at 1 p.m. EST Thursday, Dec. 14, to announce the latest discovery made by its planet-hunting Kepler space telescope. nasa.gov NASA to Unveil Exoplanet Discovery Thursday NASA is about to announce some more big alien-planet … Read More “Spacecraft Mission News (English, German) – 14.12.17” »
Front Page / Titelseite Pluto, Other Faraway Worlds May Have Buried Oceans Our solar system may harbor many more potentially habitable worlds than scientists had thought. Subsurface oceans could still slosh beneath the icy crusts of frigid, faraway worlds such as… space.com NASA’s Next Mars Rover: A Life-Hunting Curiosity 2.0 NASA’s upcoming Mars … Read More “Spacecraft Mission News (English, German) – 07.12.2017” »