A new Israeli spy satellite, called Ofek 16, was fired into space from a site in central Israel on July 9, 2020. Office of the Israel Defense Ministry Spokesperson / Flyer via REUTERS JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel launched a new spy satellite on Monday that it said would provide high-quality …
Read More »NASA, China and the UAE will send missions to Mars in July.
Starting in July, the window opens when missions to Mars can be easily dispatched across the interplanetary gulf. If all goes well, three of those missions, ridden by NASA, China, and the United Arab Emirates, will leave Earth for the Red Planet. The number of missions, who is launching them …
Read More »It’s rocket science: EU accelerates space ambitions, says Breton
PARIS (Reuters) – The European Union will invest more money in rocket launches, satellite communication and space exploration to preserve its often-unknown successes in space and keep up with the ambitions of the United States and China, its space chief said Sunday. . FILE PHOTO: The Ariane-5 ECA launcher, which …
Read More »Subsurface ocean on Jupiter’s moon Europa considered potentially ‘habitable’
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Scientists have discovered how the subsurface ocean on Jupiter’s moon Europa may have formed and determined that this vast expanse of water may have supported microbial life in the past. FILE PHOTO: A view of Jupiter’s moon Europa created from images taken by NASA’s Galileo spacecraft in …
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