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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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.

• 2/5/2025 – The launch was successful.

Launch Date : 29th April 2025

• Mission information
• Live Launch

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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

• First data sent back

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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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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.

• Paper PDF

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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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• European Space agancy
  • Mission page

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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

• Space bricks from meteorite dust
• European Space Agency

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.

• Boron Nitride

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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.

• ESA X-ray Lobster-eye
• European Space Agency

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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:-

• If you are working on Mission Zero you will need a PARENT / GUARDIAN to help you.
• If you are undertaking Mission Space Lab you will need a MENTOR to help you.
  

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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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