Joint Venture with Space

(5 March 2019 - ESA) In the coming days the largest and most powerful telescopes in Europe and South America will be trained on a single spot in the sky, gathering details of twin...

(4 March 2019 - NASA) For the first time, a commercially-built and operated American crew spacecraft and rocket, which launched from American soil, has arrived at the International Space Station. The SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft...

Italian public service broadcaster Rai will begin broadcasting 4K and 8K content from next year,  starting with the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. The announcement was made at a conference called “Open access, for free...

(25 February 2019 - NASA) NASA has selected a new mission that will help scientists understand and, ultimately, forecast the vast space weather system around our planet. Space weather is important because it can have...

(26 February 2019 - ALMA) Astronomers have unveiled the enigmatic origins of two different gas streams from a baby star. Using ALMA, they found that the slow outflow and the high speed jet from a...

(25 February 2019 - Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias) Towards the end of their lives some 95% of stars evolve into red giants which lose their mass via a “stellar wind”. Eventually they end...

(26 February 2019 - ESA) Today, the DLR German Aerospace Center in Lampoldshausen inaugurated a new test facility that simulates launch for the complete Ariane 6 upper stage. The Lampoldshausen centre makes a key contribution...

(26 February 2019 - Orbit Communication Systems) Orbit Communication Systems unveiled today its latest dual-band Ku/Ka terminal extending Orbit’s multi-band maritime satellite communications solutions. Developed in close cooperation with SES Networks, Orbit’s dual-band Ku/Ka terminal...

(26 February 2019 - Kavli IPMU) Dark matter may scatter against each other only when they hit the right energy, say researchers in Japan, Germany, and Austria in a new study. Their idea helps...

(26 February 2019 - W M Keck Observatory) A team of astronomers led by the University of California Observatories (UCO) have studied in great detail a galaxy so faint and in such pristine condition...