April 2024
Commercial launch development in Spain
... this position, as you said. Tell us a little bit about the history of PLD Space. We founded the company as space enthusiasts. We were ... always deliver what we promise. PLD Space made history after successfully completing the launch of a first private...
30 November 2018
All of the starlight ever produced calculated by scientists
... just at a given place but also at a given time in the history of the Universe. "Gamma-ray photons traveling through a fog of starlight ... to reconstruct the EBL and determine the star-formation history of the Universe in a more effective manner than ...
March 2016
Why We Need Space Artists
... sent back its first amazing images of distant stars and nebulae. . . But let’s take a look at the history and background of space art. Most space artists would dearly love to visit other worlds; even to take...
March 2017
Rosetta – outstanding climax to pioneering mission
...newcomers in the flight control team. Never before in the history of space exploration had a space probe reached a comet...back to the team a few years earlier. Never before in the history of space exploration had a space probe reached a comet and tried...
May 2017
Growing plants without gravity
...experiments provided the necessary information to allow astronauts to control moisture for the first time in human spaceflight history. If at first you don’t succeed… During lengthy flights an experiment where something is grown can find a wide range...
August 2017
Space invaders and the usual suspects - disruptive trends in Earth observation
... different types of Earth observation (EO) models have been developed and several disruptive events have shaped EO history, bringing significant changes in paradigms. France’s decision, in 1986, to use a commercial model for the distribution of SPOT...
