03 June 2019
CEN and CENELEC to hold workshop on standards in space applications
... ambition of the European Commission, will boost EU space leadership beyond 2020. In order to provide input to the discussion, CEN and CENELEC, two of the official European Standardization Organizations (ESOs), are organising the workshop “From space...
February 2020
Europe’s role in space standardisation
... - and space systems are no exception. The bodies responsible for European standardisation in this field are CEN, the European Committee for Standardization, and CENELEC, the European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization. They prepare...
April 2020
Protecting against the dangers of space radiation
...-microscopic phylum of animals, bdelloid rotifers, is radiation tolerant because of an efficient antioxidant and DNA repair system. SCK CEN, together with the University of Namur, Belgium, sent some of these tiny creatures to the ISS in December 2019...
15 February 2021
Possible planet found in habitable zone around Alpha Centauri
... is a triple star system consisting of two sun-like stars, Alpha Cen A & B, and a smaller red dwarf star called Proxima Centauri. ... If confirmed, this would be an exciting find as both Alpha Cen A & B are about the same size and temperature as our...
28 February 2018
Habitability of nearest exoplanet in doubt after powerful flare
... “March 24, 2017, was no ordinary day for Proxima Cen,” said Meredith MacGregor from the Carnegie Institution for Science, ...think that there is a substantial amount of dust around Proxima Cen,” Weinberger said. “Nor is there any information yet that ...
25 August 2016
Earth-sized planet found around our nearest neighbouring star
... its parent star, due to its close proximity. "The discovery of the potentially habitable planet around Proxima Cen is the culmination of 30 years of work that has improved stellar velocity measurement precision from 300 m/s to 1 m/s," said Paul...
