01 April 2019
First independent confirmation of methane on Mars
.... The detection was made by the spacecraft’s Planetary Fourier Spectrometer (PFS) and the team, who is is headed by Marco Giuranna, a planetary scientist at the Institute for Space Astrophysics and Planetology (IAPS) in Rome, say that by implementing...
03 May 2019
Debris from India's ASAT test worse than predicted
..., the missile hit the target satellite on a clear upwards angle, rather than “head-on” as claimed by DRDO, says Marco Langbroek, a consultant with the Space Security Center of the Royal Dutch Air Force and Leiden Observatory...
14 August 2019
Protesters block asteroid detection safety work
... profile of 2006 QV89. Without access to the telescopes in Hawaii, Tholen alerted a colleague at the European Space Agency – Marco Micheli, who was also responsible for ruling out the 2019 strike – but with two hours...
16 September 2019
First European satellite with AI set for launch
.... This not only ensures better quality data, but makes the delivery much more efficient,” says Marco Esposito, from cosine Remote Sensing. ESA’s Massimiliano Pastena, noted, “Indeed, this will be the first satellite...
11 November 2019
Fourth time rocket reuse for SpaceX mission but concerns still over satellites
... night sky,” concluded McDowell. The first Starlink launch produced a visible train of satellites in the sky. Image: Marco Langbroek
05 February 2020
Legal action could be used to stop Starlink ruining the night say astronomers
... of them. If no action will be put in place, several problems will soon arise in Astronomical observations,” argue Stefano Gallozzi, Marco Scardia and Michele Maris; the astronomers behind the legal proposal. And this is not some distant...
