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Following months of meticulous testing to ensure that it will deliver first-class data on air quality around the world, the new Copernicus Sentinel-5 instrument has been delivered to Airbus in France ready to be installed on the first MetOp Second Generation weather satellite.
While not a satellite in the traditional sense,...
A laser could hide – or broadcast – our existence. European Southern Observatory, CC BY
David Kipping, Columbia University
What would it take to hide an entire planet? It sounds more like a question posed in...
by Cian O'Regan
On the thirtieth anniversary of the Challenger disaster which occurred on this day, January 28 1986, we pause to remember the seven person crew of space shuttle mission STS-51L, who died in...
Riley Duren, University of Arizona
Far more methane, a potent greenhouse gas, is being released from landfills and oil and gas operations around the world than governments realized, recent airborne and satellite surveys show. That’s...
Satellites are more likely to be at risk from high-speed solar wind than a major geomagnetic storm according to a new UK-US study published this week in the Journal Space Weather.
Researchers investigating the space...
News Release: Thursday 18 April 2024
Ec(h)o – digital film poem screening at Armagh Planetarium
20 April – 12 May, Copernicus Hall
Artist talk on Saturday...
The secret to directly detecting dark matter might be blowin’ in the wind.
The mysterious substance continues to elude scientists even though it outweighs visible...
The first of two launches of NASA’s PREFIRE (Polar Radiant Energy in the Far-InfraRed Experiment) mission lifted off on Rocket Lab’s Electron rocket from...
What is OSIRIS-APEX?OSIRIS-APEX is a mission to shadow Apophis, a giant asteroid, just after the rock barely avoids hitting Earth. If successful, OSIRIS-APEX will take...
For the first time in 47 years, South
Carolina will experience a once-in-lifetime total solar eclipse! On August 21, 2017, Anderson Jockey
Lot will host a...