Showing posts with label European Space Agency. Show all posts
Showing posts with label European Space Agency. Show all posts

Sunday, May 5, 2024

A year in training: ESA's new astronauts graduate

After a year of training at the European Astronaut Centre in Cologne,Germany,a class of five new ESA astronauts and an Australian Space Agency astronaut have graduated.They are: 1.Rosemary Coogan of the UK 2.Pablo Alvarez Fernandez of Spain 3.Raphel Liegeois of Belgium 4.Catherine Benell-Pegg of Australia 5.Marco Sieber of Switzerland 6.Sophie Adenot of France

Wednesday, January 10, 2024

Einstein Probe explained - astrophysics

The Einstein Probe is a collaboration of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS),ESA,and the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics (MPE),Germany.The EP has nextgen X-ray instruments of high sensitivity and a very wide field of view to detect X-ray blasts from sources such as neutron stars and black holes.

Thursday, September 21, 2023

Artemis II astronauts visit European Service Module-2 - ESA

The Artemis II mission is slated to launch from NASA Kennedy Space Center Space Launch Complex 39B in November 2024.The voyage will take the astronauts farther away from Earth than ever before,surpassing the current record held by Apollo 13 by reaching an expected maximum altitude of 8889 km/5523 mi above the Moon's surface.