24 May 2021
A CubeSat that produces visible light on the ground to be launched in NASA initiative
... to and then set off a huge flash in the night sky - is such a terrible idea for astronomers,” says Leiden Observatory... a growing number of satellites leaving visible trails through the dark skies; dodging light from one which fires up at the press of...
21 July 2021
New balloon-borne astronomical telescope to rival Hubble
...studying the Universe, molecules such as water vapour in our skies can block out or attenuate incoming radiation making it difficult ...batteries during the day. SuperBIT has already taken to the skies to perform a number of tests. During its final test...
June 2015
Finding asteroids before they find us
... people. And, not one single operational telescope or eye-on-the-sky looking for such asteroids saw it coming. The last major asteroid... mirrors to provide us with an unobstructed view of the sky. Sentinel’s camera will image a large field of view from...
October 2015
Russian business: a long road to the stars for private space initiative
...-Aurora, Perseus-M, and DX-1 are already up in the sky. And Russian Cosmic Systems has launched TNS-0 №1, which ... for a few months, to become the brightest spot in the night sky. The private space initiative in Russia may not be nearly as well ...
