Live feed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPH5KtjJFaQ
Current location: http://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=14.9550&mlon=-107.6489&zoom=2

Live feed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPH5KtjJFaQ
Current location: http://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=14.9550&mlon=-107.6489&zoom=2

ISRU, In-Situ Resource Utilization

Humanity is heading back to the Moon, and this time, we're planning to stay. But for long-term space missions, astronauts would need infrastructure to live and work, to move around, to communicate with Earth, and to produce oxygen and water vital for survival.Taking all this infrastructure from Earth would likely be prohibitively expensive. Instead, we need to figure out how to make it on site. ESA Discovery & Preparation has supported many studies to explore how we can do this.
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Neue Chancen in der Raumfahrt für deutsche Nachwuchskräfte
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"Für deutsche Staatsangehörige, die eine Karriere in der Raumfahrt anstreben, bietet sich demnächst ..spannende Gelegenheit! Nach der Unterzeichnung einer Vereinbarung zwischen der Europäischen Weltraumorganisation (ESA) und der Deutschen Raumfahrtagentur im DLR werden in Kürze sechs Stellen für diplomierte nationale Trainees (NGT) eingerichtet."
8.4.2026

Für deutsche Staatsangehörige, die eine Karriere in der Raumfahrt anstreben, bietet sich demnächst eine spannende Gelegenheit! Nach der Unterzeichnung einer Vereinbarung zwischen der Europäischen Weltraumorganisation (ESA) und der deutschen Raumfahrtagentur im DLR werden in Kürze sechs Stellen für diplomierte nationale Trainees (NGT) eingerichtet.
2026 April 9
Death of Comet C/2026 A1 (MAPS)
* Video Credit: Brian Day, SOHO, SDO, JHelioviewer
https://science.nasa.gov/people/brian-day/
https://soho.nascom.nasa.gov/
https://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/
https://www.jhelioviewer.org/
* Text: Cecilia Chirenti (NASA GSFC, UMCP, CRESST II)
https://science.gsfc.nasa.gov/sci/bio/cecilia.chirenti
https://www.nasa.gov/
https://www.nasa.gov/goddard/
https://www.astro.umd.edu/people/cecilia-chirenti
https://cresst2.umd.edu/
Explanation:
As the crew of Artemis II travelled towards the Moon this week, Comet C/2026 A1 (MAPS) was expected to have its closest approach to the Sun on Monday. At this point, comet and Sun would be closer than half the distance separating the Earth and Moon. The comet did not survive; the featured video was made with 40 hours of data and shows the comet plunging toward the Sun, like a moth to a flame. Observing the comet so close to our bright star requires a coronagraph, an instrument that blocks the Sun and is used for studies of its corona. This composite video combines, starting from the outside, views from: the wider angle coronagraph (blue) and the narrower angle coronagraph (red), both on NASA's Solar and Heliospheric Observatory, and NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (black). We can see the comet approaching the sun, stretching, disappearing behind the coronagraph's occulting disk and reappearing as a cloud of debris that dissipates.
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/our-artemis-crew/
https://www.nasa.gov/mission/artemis-ii/
https://science.nasa.gov/moon/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C/2026_A1_(MAPS)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kreutz_sungrazer
https://www.rmg.co.uk/stories/space-astronomy/how-far-away-moon
https://images.pexels.com/photos/1469196/pexels-photo-1469196.jpeg
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap151102.html
https://www.space.com/what-is-a-coronagraph.html
https://nso.edu/for-public/sun-science/corona/
https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/products/lasco-coronagraph
https://soho.nascom.nasa.gov/
https://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap090322.html
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap260409.html
#space #comets #astrophotography #photography #science #astronomy #nature #NASA #ESA #education #apod
Live feed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWasdbDVNvc
Current location: http://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=-35.9618&mlon=110.4275&zoom=2

ESA usa lasers e grafeno para impulsionar viagens espaciais
🔗 https://tugatech.com.pt/t81506-esa-usa-lasers-e-grafeno-para-impulsionar-viagens-espaciais

In zahlreichen Songs, Büchern und Filmen wurde versucht, die Faszination für Reisen in die Unendlichkeit des Universums greifbar zu machen. Die Artemis-2-Mission macht Science-Fiction nun zur Realität.