#French lecturer reaches for stars with astronaut application

#French lecturer reaches for stars with astronaut application

“#French lecturer reaches for stars with astronaut application” Enlarge Image Matthieu Pluvinage, a candidate to the European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut selection, poses in his office at the ESIGELEC engineering school where he teaches, in Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray, France, June 4, 2021. Reuters ROUEN, France, June 8 – In a break from his job teaching engineering to…

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#Europe pitches lunar satellites plan

#Europe pitches lunar satellites plan

“#Europe pitches lunar satellites plan” BERLIN — The European Space Agency presented a vision Thursday to put satellites in orbit around the moon that would facilitate future missions to Earth’s closest neighbor. The plan, dubbed “Moonlight,” would see ESA offer communications and navigation services to any country that wants to carry out lunar exploration missions….

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#Latin America looks to space, despite limitations on ground

#Latin America looks to space, despite limitations on ground

“#Latin America looks to space, despite limitations on ground” MEXICO CITY — Mars missions, astronauts coming and going at the International Space Station, China’s increasingly ambitious space program. Space-related news is flowing, and not just from the world’s richest, biggest nations. Take Latin America. On Feb. 17, the congress in Nicaragua, one of the region’s poorest, most conflict-prone nations, approved…

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#’Space junk’ races at 10 times the speed of a bullet

#’Space junk’ races at 10 times the speed of a bullet

“#’Space junk’ races at 10 times the speed of a bullet” In space, no one can see the minuscule threats that risk total annihilation. Now circling Earth’s orbit are more than 128 million pieces of refuse leftover from degrading satellites, byproducts of past flight missions and other cosmic accidents — and that’s just counting the…

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#Europe signs 2M deal to bring space trash home

#Europe signs $102M deal to bring space trash home

“#Europe signs $102M deal to bring space trash home” BERLIN — The European Space Agency says it is signing a 86 million-euro ($102 million) contract with a Swiss start-up company to bring a large piece of orbital trash back to Earth. The agency said Thursday that the deal with ClearSpace SA will lead to the…

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