Tag Archives: European Space Agency
Making sense of Luna 25
At the outset, let’s hope the unfortunate demise of Russia’s Luna 25 mission to the moon will finally silence the social media brigade that’s been calling it a competitor to India’s Chandrayaan 3 – although I wouldn’t put it past … Continue reading
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Tagged Chandrayaan 3, European Space Agency, Exomars, Fobos Grunt, Indian Space Research Organisation, Luna 25, Luna Glob, NASA, Roscosmos
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Could there be life on Europa? NASA okays mission to find out
The Wire June 19, 2015 On Thursday, NASA okayed the development of a probe to Jupiter’s moon Europa, currently planned for the mid-2020s, to investigate if it has conditions suitable for life. The milestone parallels the European Space Agency’s JUICE … Continue reading
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Tagged Dione, Enceladus, Europa, European Space Agency, Ganymede, Hyperion, Iapetus, Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer, NASA Clipper, plate tectonics, Tethys
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Some more questions concerning Herschel…
The Herschel Space Observatory, a.k.a. Herschel, was the largest space telescope at the time of its launch and still is. With a collecting area twice as large as the Hubble Space Telescope’s, and operating in the far-infrared part of the … Continue reading
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Tagged astrophysics, Atacama Large Millimeter/Sub millimeter Array, European Space Agency, Herschel Space Observatory, infrared astronomy, star-formation
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EUCLID/ESA: A cosmic vision looking into the darkness
I spoke to Dr. Giuseppe Racca and Dr. Rene Laureijs, both of the ESA, regarding the EUCLID mission, which will be the world’s first space-telescope launched to study dark energy and dark matter. For the ESA, EUCLID will be the … Continue reading
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Tagged astrophysics, dark energy, dark matter, European Space Agency, Lagrange point
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