Urban areas are a rapidly changing environment and concentration of the population is ever increasing in…
Month: February 2013
Earth from Space: New Caledonia
Earth from Space is presented by Kelsea Brennan-Wessels from the ESA Web-TV virtual studios. In the…
Statement on use by Eutelsat of German filing at 28.5° East
Eutelsat and Deutsche Telekom AG have reached a final settlement to the dispute regarding the duration…
Rapidly rotating black hole accreting matter
ESA’s XMM-Newton and NASA’s NuSTAR have detected a rapidly rotating supermassive black hole in the heart…
Vandenberg Natural Resources Office seeks docents this plover season
The Vandenberg Natural Resources Office has strengthened their effort to protect a small threatened species' habitat…
BepiColombo MPO being placed in Phenix thermal vacuum test facility
The Mercury Planetary Orbiter, part of ESA's BepiColombo mission to Mercury, placed in the Phenix thermal…
How to cook a spacecraft
The faint aroma of hot metal filled the surrounding cleanroom as the hatch to ESA’s newest…
NASA’S NuSTAR Helps Solve Riddle of Black Hole Spin
Two X-ray space observatories, NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) and the European Space Agency's XMM-Newton,…
Winter Storm across Central United States
In late February 2013, a major snowstorm made its way across the continental United States, dropping…