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Archive for September 7th, 2023

See the sun’s atmosphere like never before thanks to a simple Solar Orbiter camera hack (video)

September 7th, 2023 by

The European Solar Orbiter spacecraft has peered into yet unexplored parts of the sun’s atmosphere thanks to a simple hack to its main camera.

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Orbiting debris trackers could be a game changer in space junk monitoring

September 7th, 2023 by

Tiny devices on satellites could soon track small pieces of space debris that are invisible to existing space junk monitoring systems but capable of destroying spacecraft if they collide with it.

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Here’s our last look at Europe’s Aeolus satellite falling to its fiery death (photo)

September 7th, 2023 by

ESA’s wind-measuring Aeolus satellite was spotted before its flaming demise over Antarctica.

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Could an ‘Earth-like’ planet be hiding in our solar system’s outer reaches?

September 7th, 2023 by

A hypothetical Kuiper Belt Planet in the far reaches of our solar system could help explain the peculiar orbits of many trans-Neptunian objects.

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