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Rosetta: OSIRIS’ first light!
Already taken on the, 20th and 21st of March, I wonder what took them so long to release it although I kept asking them every other day :-) OSIRIS first light image; 2014-03-20 or -21; ESA; Source:...
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And @Philae2014 is awake! #Rosetta
Good morning, commissioning starts! :-) Philae Lander; ESA; Source: https://twitter.com/esaoperations/status/449186583791808513/photo/1/large What a beauty :-)
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All eyes on #Rosetta: About micro-gravity, solar radiation pressure and solar...
Good Morning space geeks, I’m almost ready for my trip to the German Aerospace Center in Cologne to watch Philae’s commissioning in their Microgravity User Support Center (MUSC). But since I have a few...
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APOD: 2014 March 30 – Io in True Color
NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day: Io in true color; NASA APOD; Source: http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap140330.html Source: http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap140330.html “[…] sulfur and molten silicate rock”....
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News from #Rosetta and #MIDAS
Dear space geeks, I had a little chat with the gals & guys from Rosetta’s MIDAS-Team and I’d like to sum up the relevant information as a little consolidated Twitter-timeline. our first scan since...
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#Sentinel-1 reached orbit!
So why is it that +European Space Agency, ESA made #Sentinel-1 head north at launch instead of the regular east during launch? Usually you’d start east to take maximum advantage from earth’s rotation...
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This thursday: NASA will open space software to the public
This is big news; A friend sent me a tip to an article in the german IT new outlet Golem, which said, that Wired says that NASA will release some of it’s software “at no cost“, although I bet that...
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Bees land like spacecraft
Now this is something I found pretty interesting; biologists found out that bees use a time-to-contact strategy when planning their landing. ESA’s Advanced Concept Team already summed up all relevant...
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#ISEE-3 – Two-way communication established!
This is something I really find pretty cool. ISEE-3 [3] is an abandoned space probe by NASA. Originally it was intended to investigate Earth’s magnetosphere, the Sun’s plasma wind cosmic rays in...
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Welcome back, Samantha!
After breaking the record for the longest stay in orbit for women, Samantha Christofertti made it safe back to earth. TMA-15M landed safely in Kazachstan yesterday at 1344 GMT. Coverage:...
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