20 posts tagged with ESA by doctornemo.
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Moon landings, a wooden satellite, Tolkien on Mars, fiery descents

The Martian helicopter completed its final flight on Valinor Hills. "yeah it really could be an ocean moon" - Let's check in on humanity's exploration of space in early 2024. [more inside]
posted by doctornemo on Feb 23, 2024 - 13 comments

Asteroid bits, fast spaceships, JuMBOs, a space battle, space cat video

December 2023 solstice from space. Let's check in on humanity's solar system exploration before 2024 kicks in. [more inside]
posted by doctornemo on Dec 21, 2023 - 14 comments

Launches, landings, elements, and the fiery golden apples of the sun

NASA started work on this day in 1958. So let's mark the occasion by checking on the past month of humanity's exploration of space. [more inside]
posted by doctornemo on Oct 1, 2023 - 5 comments

Feeling lunar gravity

Had ceased to exist as a result of a collision with the lunar surface. Let's check in on humanity's exploration of space as autumn 2023 draws nigh, starting with the Sun and working outwards from there. [more inside]
posted by doctornemo on Sep 4, 2023 - 13 comments

To the other side of the Sun, to resurrect the last Great Observatory

Launches, satellites, deep space missions, images, and more. Let's check in on humanity's exploration of space for July 2023. [more inside]
posted by doctornemo on Jul 9, 2023 - 7 comments

Hello from lunar orbit! 🌔

An eclipse, the heart of a supernova, rockets up and down the gravity well, and more missions. Here's a snapshot of humanity's exploration of space in April 2023. [more inside]
posted by doctornemo on Apr 16, 2023 - 23 comments

Volcano on Venus

A Martian glacier, rockets, asteroid samples, moons, and more rockets. From the fiery Sun to the search for alien civilizations, here's an update on humanity's exploration of space.

Sol
NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured video of an immense solar flare followed by a solar tornado. [more inside]
posted by doctornemo on Mar 21, 2023 - 8 comments

An unusually close glimpse of black hole snacking on star.

The Moon doesn’t currently have an independent time. It's time for another look at humanity's exploration of space, from 2022's end to the start of 2023. There's a lot going on, especially between the Earth's surface and orbit. [more inside]
posted by doctornemo on Jan 30, 2023 - 10 comments

From the Earth to the Moon and Around the Moon

Helga, Zohar and Commander Moonikin Campos take a trip. It's time for another look at humanity's exploration of space, starting with the Sun.
The European Space Agency-led Solar Orbiter glimpsed a "solar snake" racing across the face of the Sun. [more inside]
posted by doctornemo on Dec 12, 2022 - 6 comments

The face of the sun, a dying robot, meteor strikes, lovely moons

October 2022 in humanity's exploration of space. Let's start from the sun. The European Space Agency (ESA) Solar Orbiter zoomed very close to our star and captured great images of its corona. [more inside]
posted by doctornemo on Nov 5, 2022 - 7 comments

Moon to Mars activities and asteroid crashing

NASA published its new strategic objectives. And a lot more is going on. Just past the fall equinox, we catch up with humanity's exploration of space. [more inside]
posted by doctornemo on Sep 25, 2022 - 14 comments

From the Earth to the Moon, to Venus, Mars, and more

A roundup of July and August 2022 in humanity's exploration of space. Humans and robots explored, rockets ascended and descended, various preparations are under way, and many plans were aired. [more inside]
posted by doctornemo on Aug 21, 2022 - 18 comments

Looking into the universe in June 2022

Today NASA published the first image captured by the James Webb Space Telescope. That makes this a fine day to catch up on all of the other ways people and our machines are exploring space. [more inside]
posted by doctornemo on Jul 11, 2022 - 163 comments

From Ukraine to deep space

April-June 2022 in humanity's exploration of space. Stand by for rocky passengers, glitches, amazing images, a very French rocket name, Earthly politics, and lots of asteroids.

On the Earth In the Himalayas, a liquid mirror telescope came online. France joined the Artemis accords for sustainable space exploration. BRICS nations announced a new space agreement: Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa. [more inside]
posted by doctornemo on Jun 12, 2022 - 12 comments

The option of dropping a 500-ton structure on India and China

Updates from February 2022 in space. The human effort to explore space continued this month, intersecting the Russian invasion of Ukraine. [more inside]
posted by doctornemo on Feb 27, 2022 - 24 comments

to strengthen its space presence in an all-round manner

The past fortnight in space. Updates from humanity's exploration of the solar system.
On Earth's surface: using data from three satellites, scientists published a visualization of an unusually violent star. A "hard start" delayed an ABL Space Systems rocket test launch. An uncrewed SpaceX Dragon module safely splashed down in the Gulf of Mexico. [more inside]
posted by doctornemo on Jan 30, 2022 - 9 comments

From L2 to the Moon and points elsewhere

The last two weeks of 2021 in space. Starting with the Earth area: Zhai Zhigang and Ye Guangfu, two taikonauts of the Shenzhou-13 mission on board the Tianhe space station, completed a second EVA lasting six hours. [more inside]
posted by doctornemo on Dec 27, 2021 - 7 comments

New space walks

A space exploration update for November 2021. In Earth orbit news, one crew returned from the International Space Station, while a new crew rode a SpaceX flight to board the ISS. The ISS altered its orbit by a mile to avoid incoming debris from an old Chinese launch. Members of the Shenzhou 13 team aboard China's Tiangong space station conducted a spacewalk to build out the station; colonel Wang Yaping became China's first female spacewalker. [more inside]
posted by doctornemo on Nov 13, 2021 - 11 comments

a faint plasma "hum" scientists compared to gentle rain

Another week in humanity's exploration of the solar system. Starting from the sun: the NASA and ESA Solar Orbiter hurtled around the far side of the star from the Earth and tracked a coronal mass ejection. [more inside]
posted by doctornemo on May 19, 2021 - 2 comments

In and around the solar system this week

Humanity and its machines have been busy finding stuff in space. The Chinese Lunar Exploration Program's Chang'e 5 landed in the Oceanus Procellarum, looked around, collected samples, and fired off a sample-laded return rocket towards an orbiter. (previously) [more inside]
posted by doctornemo on Dec 5, 2020 - 4 comments

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