The European Space Agency’s craft has already has catalogued more than 1 billion stars. https://media.wired.com/photos/5ae36bcbac24911d41d74787/master/pass/SPoW_April27_2018_3.jpg
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The ESA’s hunt for gravitational waves is over, for now
On July 18th, 2017 at around 2PM Eastern time, Professor Stefano Vitale sent the LISA Pathfinder its final kill commands from the mission’s control center in Germany. The lead investigator’s instructions prompted the probe to reboot itself and run a corrupted version of its software. That ensures that the spacecraft will harmlessly orbit the sun […]
ESA’s search for Earth’s ‘twin’ starts in 2026
The European Space Agency (ESA) announced today that it is officially adopting the PLATO mission. PLATO, which stands for PLAnetary Transits and Oscillations of stars, is a planet-hunting project that will look for Earth twins — planets just like our own. So far, scientists have found thousands of exoplanets — planets outside of our solar […]
