Thanks to volunteers from the British Amateur Television Club (BATC) the presentations at this weekend’s AMSAT-UK…
Month: July 2016
Testing mobiPV
Taking part in NASA's NEEMO 21 underwater training mission, Matthias Maurer, from the European Astronaut Centre,…
A long-dead star
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image captures the remnants of a long-dead star. These rippling wisps…
Tim Peake at Futures Day, FIA 2016
ESA astronaut Tim Peake inaugurated Futures Day at Farnborough International Airshow on Friday 15 July, 2016.…
Mission controllers
Following a lengthy firing of its powerful engine, ESA’s ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter is on track…
The Loneliest Young Star
An unusual celestial object called CX330 was first detected as a source of X-ray light in…
Protected: Satellite Operations in the Field
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Dust storm over the Red Sea
The Sentinel-3A satellite caught this image of a dust storm blowing east across the Red Sea…
One ring to bind them
Technology image of the week: a docking ring for joining ESA's ATV space truck to the…
ATV docking ring
The docking ring used by ESA’s Automated Transfer Vehicle cargo spacecraft for five missions to the…