Featured in this new image from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope is Messier 106, also…
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ESA – A supernova spotlight
This Hubble Picture of the Week features the galaxy LEDA 857074, located in the constellation Eridanus. LEDA 857074…
Promising early tests for variable-thrust landing engine
Enabling & Support 08/08/2024 70 views 3 likes Throttleable Liquid Propulsion Demonstrator As part of ESA’s…
ESA – Mermaid on salty Mars
A purplish, scaley wave lures the attention of a European spacecraft as it flies over Mars’s…
New variable engine undergoes dynamic testing
A new variable-thrust engine was recently tested with different rates of propellant flowing through it, controlled…
ESA – Space Rider drop tests
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…
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…