SpaceX takes the first satellite developed by a Brazilian start-up firm into space

Pion Labs has created a picosatellite that was included among the 105 transported by Elon Musk’s company The rocket Falcon 9 of the private firm SpaceX launched this Thursday from Cape Canaveral (USA) put into orbit a small satellite developed by the Brazilian start-up Pion Labs, which became the first startup in the country to … Read more

Trial of the Century: do we still have the mastery of time?

Published on : 20/01/2022 – 14:04 Thanks to advancements in technology, we’ve never had so much free time, yet we still feel overwhelmed. How do you explain this paradox? For three months, the Museum of Civilizations, Europe and the Mediterranean organizes every Monday aTrial of the century. Citizen deliberations on the excesses of our contemporary … Read more

Fully deployed, the James Webb space telescope continues its flight to orbit

Launched aboard an Ariane 5 rocket in Guyana on December 25, the James Webb space telescope successfully completed its deployment in space on Saturday through its main mirror. “Mirror, mirror… deployed! Webb has taken its final form. Over the next 6 months or so, the space telescope will cool, calibrate its instruments and prepare to … Read more

The James Webb telescope deployed its mirror, crucial last step

It has now been 14 days since the James Webb Space Telescope left Earth for its observation point, 1.5 million kilometers away. The full implementation is not scheduled before the end of January, time to fit into the desired orbit, at the so-called Lagrange 2 point. But this Saturday, January 8, James Webb completed the … Read more

“Inhabit other worlds? », Theology in the age of exobiology

Live in other worlds? by Anne Marie Reijnen and Christian Pian (eds.) Labor and Faith, 254 p., 19 € Man always sees high and further, to the confines of the galaxy and even beyond, to better understand the Universe but also with the secret hope of discovering other worlds and other intelligences. Theological reflection cannot … Read more