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Solar Orbiter: ESA’s mission to reach the Sun is launched
The probe of the European Space Agency Solar Orbiter departed from Cape Canaveral at 5.03 am: it will study the surface of the Sun from a distance never reached before.
Giovanni Sapere
Space
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Mission accomplished for Luca Parmitano: he has returned to Earth
Italian astronaut Luca Parmitano returned to Earth after 201 days spent on the ISS, the International Space Station that orbits at an altitude of 498 kilometers.
Giovanni Sapere
Science
Dragon 2 passes the last flight test: space gets closer!
The final test of the Crew Dragon spacecraft, the “space taxi” of the SpaceX agency of Elon Musk, has been successfully completed.
Giovanni Sapere
Environment
ESA announces first mission to remove garbage from the sky
In 2025, ClearSpace-1, the first space mission to clear the sky of thousands of objects left in orbit from previous missions and expeditions, will begin Around the Earth, in addition to working satellites, there are thousands of disused satellites and junk material orbiting, posing a danger to…
Mario Vincenzo La Rocca
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Trump founds the USA Space Force: technology and research for “space wars”
US President Donald Trump has allocated $738 billion for the recruitment and training of Space Force to “maintain American dominance in space”.
Giovanni Sapere
Mechanical Engineering
A space lift for satellites: Obayashi launches the challenge for 2050
Japanese company Obayashi Corporation has launched a project for a 36000 km high space lift to put the satellites into orbit.
Giovanni Sapere
Science
In 2024, the first female footprint on the moon
NASA is ready for Artemis, the important lunar mission that will change the history of space In 2024 we will return to the moon. To announce it NASA communicating the next lunar mission that will bring a woman for the first time in history. A symbolic step, then, that aims, not only to test new
Ilaria Cuomo
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London-Sidney in four hours? With SABRE engines it will be (soon) possible!
The British company Reaction Engines has developed a new class of SABRE engines that will allow you to fly from one end of the world to the other in just 4 hours.
Giovanni Sapere
News
News from space. Comet C/2019 Q4 is coming up
Billions of cosmic objects orbit in space, yet one of them is attracting the attention and curiosity of astronomers around the world. It’s called C/2019 Q4, and it’s a comet. Discovered at the end of August by Gennady Borisov, the space object is making an orbital path different from all other…
Giovanni Sapere
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“Edscottite” is the new mineral found in nature
This is not the first time that science has questioned the origin of certain components of matter. A few years ago a nugget was found whose origins date back to extraterrestrial material. This time two scholars of Caltech have signed a research in which they claim that the “Edscottite” is inside…
Giovanni Sapere
Life
The first hotel in orbit will be built in 2025
Inspired by the International Space Station, the Gateway Foundation is working on this extraordinary innovative entertainment project. At the current state of the art, 100 lucky people will be able to stay in a structure of about 200 meters in diameter. The visionaries are already anticipating a…
Giovanni Sapere
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Sailing among the stars with LightSail 2
In its constant search for alternative means of propulsion to those using fuel, the Planetary Society Foundation has in fact completed the LightSail 2 project, which sees the launch, on 22 June, of a small spacecraft that will take advantage of the thrust of solar radiation captured by its solar…
Giovanni Sapere
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April 17, 2014, Nasa announces the discovery of the exoplanet Kepler186f
Imagine luxurious forests, rivers of fresh water, immense seas. And maybe life. No, we are not talking about the Earth, but of a distant cousin: Kepler 186f, the first exoplanet in the habitable zone of a star discovered exactly 5 years ago, on April 17, 2014.
Giovanni Sapere