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BepiColombo, a joint space mission of the European Space Agency - ESA and the JAXA: Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, continues to make significant progress. During its third Mercury flyby in June 2023, the mission collected a substantial amount of data which has now been analyzed, providing many new discoveries. Launched in 2018, this mission aims to provide a better understanding of the inner planet of the Solar System: Mercury. Close to the Sun and more difficult for an orbiter to reach than Saturn, this small desert world is the least explored planet of the inner Solar System. Find out more: https://lnkd.in/dTKVGBG5 #ESA #JAXA #BepiColombo #Mercury #Flyby #SpaceExploration

🌟 Proud Moment: Eventech - born in Commercialization Reactor - is participating in Hera Space Mission, which launches TODAY🌟 (see below for livestream, scheduled at 16:52 CEST) As part of our work in commercializing scientific achievements, it’s incredible to see Eventech, born in Commercialization Reactor - the international science commercialization platform -, making such a significant contribution to the European Space Agency - ESA's Hera Mission, representing Latvia's efforts towards growing space presence! 🚀🇱🇻 🇪🇺 About Hera Mission & Eventech participation: ESA's Hera mission is set to study the aftermath of NASA’s DART mission, which intentionally crashed into the asteroid Dimorphos to test if its orbit could be shifted, to gather vital data that could help protect Earth from potential asteroid threats. In scope of the mission, Eventech has successfully developed extremely precise Space Ready Timing Module for the Planetary Altimeter instrument (PALT) - one of the instruments developed for the Hera spacecraft. Their expertise in picosecond-precise timing technology is truly groundbreaking. It’s moments like these that remind us why we push for science commercialization — turning cutting-edge innovation into world-changing applications.🔭 We are extremely thrilled to be part of this journey and can’t wait to see what’s next for Eventech and the entire space exploration community! 🌍✨ 📺 Watch the launch live: • ESA WebTV: https://lnkd.in/g2e4jeU • ESA YouTube: https://lnkd.in/dCMdX-CW • ESA X: https://x.com/esa • ESA LinkedIn: https://lnkd.in/dSvV4WP 🔗 Want to learn more about the Hera mission? Check out the links below! • https://lnkd.in/ehvJeBVJ • https://lnkd.in/dNtt5VZQ #HeraMission #ESA #Eventech #SpaceInnovation #LatviaInSpace #ScienceCommercialization #ProudMoment

‼️ It's LAUNCH TIME - Hera Mission launches TODAY 🚀 🇱🇻 Eventech | Latvia 🇱🇻 is one of the the participants! Today, on October 7, 2024, Hera Mission is set to launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, USA. The launch is scheduled for 10:52 EDT - 14:52 UTC - 16:52 CEST, and can be watched live (see below). European Space Agency - ESA's Hera mission is a follow-up to NASA’s DART mission, which intentionally crashed into the asteroid Dimorphos to test if its orbit could be shifted. Now, Hera is set to study the aftermath and gather vital data that could help protect Earth from potential asteroid threats in the future. 🌍 As part of this groundbreaking mission, Eventech - born in Commercialization Reactor - has contributed to the mission with its picosecond-precise timing technology by having successfully developed a Space Ready Timing Module for the Planetary Altimeter instrument (PALT) - one of the instruments developed for the Hera spacecraft. The Timing Module's purpose is to deliver extreme precision needed for such complex space missions. This is a major milestone for Eventech and Latvia, and we are thrilled to share the excitement with you all! Let’s make history together! 🌟 📺 Watch the launch live:  • ESA WebTV: https://lnkd.in/g2e4jeU   • ESA YouTube: https://lnkd.in/dCMdX-CW   • ESA X: https://x.com/esa   • ESA LinkedIn: https://lnkd.in/dSvV4WP 🔗 Want to learn more about the Hera mission? Check out the links below!  • https://lnkd.in/ehvJeBVJ  • https://lnkd.in/dNtt5VZQ 🌐 More about Eventech: • https://eventechsite.com/ 🌐 More about Commercialization Reactor: • https://lnkd.in/gnQbM2N --------------- Eventech’s involvement has been supported by Latvia’s Ministry of Education (Izglītības un zinātnes ministrija) and European Space Agency - ESA, as well as by Latvia becoming ESA Associate Member State in 2020. --------------- #HeraMission #ESA #Eventech #AsteroidResearch #SpaceScience #LatviaInSpace #SpaceExploration #AsteroidDefense #SpaceInnovation

China landed an uncrewed spacecraft on the far side of the moon on Sunday, overcoming a key hurdle in its landmark mission to retrieve the world’s first rock and soil samples from the dark lunar hemisphere. The landing elevates China’s space power status in a global rush to the moon, where countries including the United States are hoping to exploit lunar minerals to sustain long-term astronaut missions and moon bases within the next decade. The Chang’e-6 craft, equipped with an array of tools and its own launcher, touched down in a gigantic impact crater called the South Pole-Aitken Basin on the moon’s space-facing side at 6:23 a.m. Beijing time (2223 GMT), the China National Space Administration said. The mission “involves many engineering innovations, high risks and great difficulty”, the agency said in a statement on its website. “The payloads carried by the Chang’e-6 lander will work as planned and carry out scientific exploration missions.” The successful mission is China’s second on the far side of the moon, a region no other country has reached. The side of the moon perpetually facing away from the Earth is dotted with deep and dark craters, making communications and robotic landing operations more challenging. Story: https://lnkd.in/g3FFGDWb Science & Technology | Thomson REUTERS

European and Japanese space agencies issue joint statement on boosting cooperation on areas including planetary defense, moon exploration, Mars missions and more "JAXA and ESA are also discussing planning for post-ISS LEO activities to meet scientific, societal, and economic goals. They will also examine potential collaboration in lunar exploration..." "ESA’s new lunar analog facility could be opened to JAXA engineers. The two agencies will also continue work on demonstrating interoperability of lunar communication and navigation capabilities, leveraging ESA’s Moonlight program." https://lnkd.in/ga-rVU_a #japan #spacetech #marsmission #spacenews #nasa #spacetechnology

https://lnkd.in/gUE3_gvc China set to launch high-stakes mission to moon’s ‘hidden’ side I want you to stop & think about this. When you look up at the moon and take those beautiful photographs, think that there may someday be a permanent base of the Chinese Communist Party up there. If America doesn't become a serious nation again, if we continue to play politics as usual, the future will not be ours. 👇👇👇 China will send a robotic spacecraft in coming days on a round trip to the moon’s far side in the first of three technically demanding missions that will pave the way for an inaugural Chinese crewed landing and a base on the lunar south pole. With no direct line of sight with the Earth, Chang’e-6 must rely on a recently deployed relay satellite orbiting the moon during its 53-day mission, including a never-before attempted ascent from the moon’s “hidden” side on its return journey home. Under the separate NASA-led Artemis program, US astronauts will land near the south pole in 2026, the first humans on the moon since 1972.

SpaceX are set to report record profits for 2024, proving the rising demand for satellite broadband, also set to be introduced by Amazon Kuiper and China's Guowang constellation. The UN General Assembly discussed Russia's veto of the proposed Japan-US draft aimed at banning the deployment of nuclear weapons in space. China's Chang'e-6 arrives in lunar orbit, readying for its mission to collect and retrieve the first lunar samples from the far-side of the Moon.  Read about this and more in our space industry news roundup & analysis! https://lnkd.in/e_yVmFej #space #spacenews #outerspace #newspace #newspaceeconomy #moonlanding #spacetech #spaceeconomy #spaceindustry Astrobotic Intuitive Machines Firefly Aerospace NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration

#China will #build a fixed #scientificstation on the #moon, #wireless and #powernetworks. The project will also have #military as well as scientific purposes. #NASA Administrator #BillNelson last year expressed grave concerns about #China's goals in #space, even advancing the possibility that #Beijing may one day claim ownership of the moon and prevent other countries from exploring it. The Outer Space Treaty of '67, also signed by #China prohibits this, but we know that Beijing unilaterally and for its own interests interprers #internationallaw. The plan. China's National Space Administration announced today that after the completion of the #Chang'e 6 mission, China's #LunarExploration Project will also conduct two missions to begin the field study to establish an international lunar scientific research station. The launches are scheduled for 2026. According to the plan, Beijing will launch Chang'e-7 in 2026 and Chang'e-8 around 2028. Bian Zhigang, deputy director of the National Space Administration, said Chang'e-7 is to examine the environment and resources of the lunar south pole, and Chang'e-8 is to test the technology of on-site utilization of lunar resources and lay the foundation for the construction of subsequent lunar #scientificresearchstations. Around 2035, a lunar science research base station will be built. According to reports, the construction of the international lunar scientific research station will be divided into two phases. The first phase is the base construction, which will be centered on the lunar south pole region and will have scientific research capabilities within a radius of 100 kilometers. Through the integrated #Earth-#Moon Information Network, interconnection and interoperability between multiple tasks such as unmanned lunar exploration, manned lunar landing and international cooperation will be realized, forming a comprehensive moon-based scientific research platform. The second phase involves the construction of the lunar base. Before 2050, a complete network of lunar stations will be built with the lunar orbit station as the hub, the lunar south pole station as the center, and the lunar equator and the hidden side of the Moon as the sensing nodes, forming a long-term large-scale unmanned comprehensive scientific research platform. So, will it be possible to access the Internet on the Moon? Is it going to be possible to live there? Guan Feng, deputy director of the National Space Administration's Center for Lunar Exploration and Space Engineering, pointed out that Chang'e-8 will have to consider communication capabilities. There will definitely be #wirelessnetworks and power on the moon. #ExtremaRatio

#China says its #Chang’e-6 spacecraft has gathered up soil and rocks from the far side of the moon and has lifted off from the surface, beginning a journey to bring the #samples back to #Earth. The probe’s payload represents the first lunar #samples ever collected from the far side. In a status update, the China National Space Administration said the #Chang’e-6 ascent module successfully reached #lunar #orbit, where it’s due to transfer the #samples to a re-entry #capsule hooked up to the probe’s #orbiter. If all goes according to plan, the #orbiter will leave the moon’s orbit, head back to #Earth and drop off the re-entry #capsule for retrieval in #China’s Inner #Mongolia region sometime around June 25. https://lnkd.in/daTzHsBN