PRISMA is the first European Satellite with a hyperspectral instrument and panchromatic camera on board. The #satellite was developed for the Agenzia Spaziale Italiana – ASI by a consortium with OHB Italia S.p.A. as Prime Contractor. It was successfully launched atop a Vega launcher on March 2019 from Arianespace Spaceport in Kourou, French Guyana. Today PRISMA…...
MYSTERIES OF THE SUN (PERHAPS) REVEALED BY #SOLARORBITER
“Rapid magnetic #oscillations” may be the new buzzword. Solar Orbiter, the ESA/NASA Sun Explorer developed with the strong support of Agenzia Spaziale Italiana – ASI, is providing crucial elements to explain the “solar #corona paradox”: the outermost part of the Sun’s atmosphere reaches temperatures up to about 2 million °C,…...
#EUCLID OPENED ITS EYES ON THE UNKNOWN UNIVERSE
Today were officially released the first images from the European probe Euclid, which is observing the Universe one and a half million kilometres from the Earth, were officially released. ‘Switching on’ a space instrument is a unique experience especially when ‘mesmerizing images’ appear. The photographs still need minimal fine-tuning of…...
