BepiColombo Update May 2025
Just reposting this so followers can get an update on the mission
The ESA's BepiColombo mission has now made it its sixth Mercury flyby, Images and information are now available on the mission news page
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ESA BioMass Mission
The mission
Carrying a novel P-band synthetic aperture radar, the Biomass mission is designed to deliver crucial information about the state of our forests and how they are changing, and to further our knowledge of the role forests play in the carbon cycle.
Launch Date : 29th April 2025
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Euclid telescope
The European Space Agency reveals the first stunning Euclid telescope images, showing the universe as you've never seen it before:
Read more here
The difference between the Euclid mission and the JWST
The full-colour photos offer the clearest glimpse yet of the cosmos, as the telescope continues its mission to unlock the mysteries of the furthest reaches of space known as the "dark universe".
Update March 25th 2025
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BepiColombo
The ESA's BepiColombo mission is due to make its fifth flyby of Mercury on 1st December. A major milestone before the orbital phase of the mission starts. You can read more about the mission on the ESA Blogpost
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Hubble ExoPlanet Research
The Hubble Telescope has measured the size of our nearest Earth-sized exoplanet. The planet orbits the star LTT 1445A, which is part of a triple system of three red dwarf stars that is 22 light-years away in the constellation Eridanus.
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Introducing Ramses, ESA’s mission to asteroid Apophis
Introducing Ramses, ESA’s mission to asteroid Apophis
Another item found on the Fediverse, decentralized social media. This is a new ESA mission to the asteroid Apophis.
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Space Bricks from meteorite dust
LEGO creates 'space bricks' made from meteorite dust – Physics World
Interesting article from Physics world, on a possible construction solution for bases on the Moon. Lego and a team of scientists from the ESA have created bricks from material from a crushed meteorite and a few other materials
I have started a Fediverse thread on this topic to ask if this technology could perhaps be combined with Boron Nitride in order to provide extra space radiation shielding.
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ESA – Innovative X-ray lobster-eye mission set to launch 2024
Image embedded from website below
The next generation of X-ray probe will launch in January 2024. This mission will help us discover more x-ray sources and much more.
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Astro Pi 2023
Astro Pi 2023 Challenge coming soon.
What is Astro Pi?
The European Astro Pi Challenge offers young people the amazing opportunity to conduct scientific investigations in space by writing computer programs that run on Raspberry Pi computers aboard the International Space Station (ISS).
2023 challenge opens mid September.
Please see website for details.
Note: As I run the STEM group, and we are a bring you own projects event, then I am happy for this to be a safe place to meet up and work on projects. However:-
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Euclid space telescope sends back first images
The Euclid space telescope has now sent back it's first images. As reported in New Scientist on 31 July 2023. You can read the full article here
So all good stuff, The telescope can exmine both visible and infrared light.
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