Moon mission: A big step for Europe | FFG

2023-06-03 09:07:03 Vienna (OTS) – The who’s who of the European space community met today in Vienna and discussed the next big step in the European space program: an astronautical mission to the moon. The FFG, to which the Aerospace Agency belongs and is the docking station for Austria’s economy and science to the international … Read more

Jupiter probe JUICE: First measurement data and “selfies” in front of Earth

2023-04-28 10:33:00 The first data from J-MAG (Bild: ESA/Juice/J-MAG Consortium) Two weeks after the successful launch of the European Jupiter probe Juice, the “Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer” sent the first measurement data to Earth. As the European Space Agency ESA explains, the Magnetometer for JUICE (J-MAG) was activated on April 21 when the probe was about … Read more

Space: Nasa to asteroid mission: “Important step”

New York The mission was registered with the United Nations Space Agency in early January, a UN spokesman said on Wednesday. In June, the responsible UN committee was informed again in detail. During the defense test on Tuesday night, an unmanned probe from the “Dart” mission (Double Asteroid Redirection Test), equipped only with a camera, … Read more

NASA intentionally sent probe into an asteroid for the first time

27. September 2022 The “Dart” mission costs around 330 million dollars © APA/AFP/JIM WATSON For the first time, a probe from the US space agency NASA intentionally crashed into an asteroid during a defense test. The unmanned probe of the mission “Dart” (Double Asteroid Redirection Test), equipped only with a camera, steered into the asteroid … Read more