New Research Platform Scheduled For Launch In March 2020

The Bartolomeo platform from Airbus gives new opportunities for research on the International Space Station (ISS). The European Space Agency ESA has now firmly booked a payload slot for a Norwegian instrument to monitor plasma density in the Earth's atmosphere.

Will Offer Customers Rideshare Launch Opportunities Aboard Firefly Alpha Launch Vehicle

Firefly Aerospace has announced the execution of a Launch Services Agreement with Innovative Space Logistics BV (ISILAUNCH), a launch services subsidiary of Netherlands based ISIS - Innovative Solutions in Space B.V. (ISISPACE). Under the agreement, ISILAUNCH will offer to its customers multiple dedicated and rideshare launch opportunities on the Firefly's Alpha launch vehicle, on missions beginning in 2020.

Famous DoubleTree Chocolate Chip Cookie Becomes First Food Baked In Space

As the astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) baked the famous DoubleTree by Hilton chocolate chip cookies – making them the first ever food baked in space – the aroma wafted through the space station, adding a reminder of the simple joys of home to an experiment designed to make long-duration space flight more hospitable.

Uses Echoes From Radiation To Map Regions Around The Phenomena

Material falling into a black hole casts X-rays out into space – and now, for the first time, ESA’s XMM-Newton X-ray observatory has used the reverberating echoes of this radiation to map the dynamic behavior and surroundings of a black hole itself.