In 2024 the Space Rider team is running a drop-test campaign whereby a full-scale model of the future orbital laboratory Space Rider is dropped from a helicopter to test…
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Engine tests for new, variable demonstrator
A new variable-thrust engine was recently tested in Poland with different rates of propellant flowing through…
Drop it like it’s hot: Space Rider model falls gracefully
Enabling & Support 05/08/2024 662 views 11 likes Over the last four months, the Space Rider…
Gaia spots possible moons around hundreds of asteroids
Science & Exploration 08/08/2024 21 views 0 likes ESA’s star-surveying Gaia mission has again proven to…
Juice’s lunar-Earth flyby in depth
ESA’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) is coming back to Earth. Our fearless traveller is getting…
Caralis Chaos as seen by ESA’s Mars Express
This image from ESA’s Mars Express shows a region of Mars known as Caralis Chaos, where copious water…
Take a trip to Mars’s largest lake
Science & Exploration 07/08/2024 97 views 2 likes Mars once hosted a lake larger than any…
ESA – Mount Etna plumes
Italy’s Mount Etna volcano has erupted yet again – spewing ash above Sicily and temporarily halting…
Rosetta and beyond: tales of a mission that left a mark
Science & Exploration 06/08/2024 22 views 1 likes Exactly ten years on since Rosetta arrived at…
Knowledge beyond our planet: space-based data centres
Enabling & Support 05/08/2024 102 views 3 likes Space is changing, and the number of actors…