September 2025
Iran’s ascent - a space power in the shadow of sanctions
.... Iman Khomenei Launch Centre in Semnan Province. The fourth strand was Iranian satellites launched by other countries. Isolated by the west, Iran had turned to Russia and China even before Omid, and Russia had launched...
November 2025
Vantage Vigil - Europe’s first operational space weather mission nears approval
... Weather Service Coordinator. Mandorlo and the other mission leads stressed that Vigil will not operate in isolation. Its data will be fused with that from L1-based satellites operated by NOAA and NASA, allowing for...
02 December 2015
Displaced dusty planet booted out of its birthplace
... occurred in the early epochs of our own solar system. The extra-solar system that is home to HD 106906b, an isolated giant weighing in at a hefty 11 times the mass of Jupiter, caught the eye of researchers as surrounding its young host...
19 January 2016
Giant double-planet system around an evolved star detected by astronomers
..., if not the majority of planets detected around stars are likely to be part of a multi-planet system rather than isolated, single planetary companions, as is often found. The different techniques for detecting extrasolar planets shows that planetary...
