Tag Archives: Earth

Hera Mission Launched to Explore Asteroid Deflection Techniques and Safeguard Earth from Potential Threats

(IN BRIEF) The Hera planetary defense mission, launched successfully aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, aims to assess the feasibility of deflecting hazardous asteroids threatening Earth. This mission follows NASA’s DART mission, which tested asteroid deflection by impacting the Dimorphos … Read the full press release

Cometary Delivery of Prebiotic Molecules: A Key to Life’s Origins in Other Galaxies, Cambridge Finds

(IN BRIEF) Researchers from the University of Cambridge have conducted a study suggesting that comets could play a role in delivering the molecular building blocks for life to planets in other galaxies. The study proposes that comets, which contain prebiotic … Read the full press release

New Inmarsat study on the value of space reveals that majority of Australians had never heard of or had no idea about space-based Internet

Australians more likely to associate space with aliens than satellite communications Space industry needs “to create a new narrative about space and show Australians how space already touches their lives everyday” (PRESS RELEASE) LONDON, 3-Aug-2022 — /EuropaWire/ — Inmarsat (LSE: … Read the full press release

Une nouvelle étude d’Inmarsat sur la valeur de l’espace révèle que la majorité des Australiens n’avaient jamais entendu parler ou n’avaient aucune idée de l’Internet spatial

Les Australiens sont plus susceptibles d’associer l’espace aux extraterrestres que les communications par satellite L’industrie spatiale doit “créer un nouveau récit sur l’espace et montrer aux Australiens comment l’espace touche déjà leur vie au quotidien” (COMMUNIQUÉ DE PRESSE) LONDON, 3-Aug-2022 … Read the full press release

WEF: EarthTime combines dramatic images from space with expert analysis of how humans are changing the planet

New website EarthTime, to launch on World Earth Day (22 April), combines NASA satellite imagery with over 300 free, open-source geospatial datasets to show humanity’s impact on the planet EarthTime uses experts to track and connect patterns between a range of topics from deforestation … Read the full press release

Thales supplied amplifiers for the New Horizons spacecraft to take the farthest images ever taken from Earth

12 years spent travelling the cosmos. 4 hours for the images to travel back. La Défense, France, 22-Mar-2018 — /EuropaWire/ — Thales has been helping to document the final frontier ever since humanity first ventured into space. Thales technologies were there … Read the full press release