Ariane 6: more power and double the payload

 

32 internet satellites are on their way to low-Earth orbit

on board Ariane 64 following a successful lift-off

from the launch pad at the Guiana Space Centre in Kourou.

Link to: Detailed information by NSF (nasaspaceflight.com)

More sharing of space intelligence essential for European self-defence

 

Cameron Olbert, writing for SpaceNews,

focuses on the need for closer cooperation 

and greater trust among European countries

in terms of satellite information gathering and sensitive data exchange

to guarantee strategic readiness and resilience in the years to come.

Link to: spacenews.com

Selecting and training moon mission astronauts

 

Richard Hollingham explains

what personal qualities and abilities are required

for candidates to qualify as lunar pioneers

in the near future.

Link to: "Have you got what it takes to go to the Moon?"

ESA: Space-Based Solar Power overview (Reminder)

 

These older articles on Solar Power research

by the European Space Agency

are still relevant and topical.

ESA reignites space-based solar power research

 Space-based solar power: seeking ideas to make it a reality

Dark Comets?

 

Apparently displaying characteristics of both asteroids and comets

these objects presently referred to as "dark comets"

have over the last decade urged scientists

to study their seemingly erratic patterns of acceleration

and to investigate in what ways they are different 

from so-called "active asteroids".

Link to: Article by Jonathan O'Callaghan

ESA pictures of the Sun's south pole

 

New pictures and video taken by the European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter

will hopefully help scientists to better understand 

the reversal of the polar fields on the Sun.

Link to: Article by Pallab Ghosh and Gwndaf Hughes

Space Mining Not Dead

 In a recent article for BBC Future

Josh Sims focuses on a wide range of current views and developments

in the field of prospective mining of space resources

highlighting a whole gamut of potential and inevitable challenges.

Link to: "Metals from space: The rocky future of asteroid mining"

Alternative Link:

"Are we on the verge of mining metals from the asteroids above Earth?"