wire - news in brief

Her workplace is six hours away from Earth by rocket. It is 1,200 cubic meters in size, about the size of a small factory hall, and orbits the Earth once every 94 minutes.

Burkhard Wilking has been awarded the Staudt Prize, and in this interview he talks about the fascination of mathematics.

At this very moment more than 8500 tons of space debris is in orbit around the earth. The extremely high speed of these objects means that even small pieces can cause major damage to satellites in the event of a collision.

In early February 2022, German ESA astronaut Matthias Maurer tested how freshly poured concrete behaves under conditions of zero gravity on the International Space Station (ISS), and how this can contribute to environmental protection. The experiment 'MASON / Concrete Hardening' is a joint project of the German Aerospace Center (DLR), the University of Cologne, and the University of Duisburg-Essen.

Summer 2022 is looking good: Prof Gustav Holzegel and Prof Thomas Nikolaus, both members of the Cluster of Excellence Mathematics Münster, have been invited to talk about their research at the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) being held in St Petersburg in July.

/2021 A new camera system has gone into test operation at the University of Würzburg. It is designed to detect unidentified aerial phenomena using artificial intelligence methods. Time and again, people see strange luminous phenomena or other phenomena in the sky that they cannot explain. "Most of these observations concern known phenomena or objects such as birds, aircraft, satellites or clouds.

EUMETSAT council gives green light to initiatives aimed at improving access to more weather, climate data The European meteorological satellite agency, EUMETSAT, has consolidated its position as a le

EUMETSAT chose to remove Metop-A from space after the end of its lifetime out of the organisation's dedication to keeping space clean Metop-A has been providing meteorological data to global users for fifteen years, three times longer than expected.

More precise information about global sea level than has ever been available before - critical for monitoring climate change - comes on-stream today with the completion of 12 months of intensive, in-orbit testing of the Copernicus Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich satellite.

An Antarctic journey with cosmic particle physicist Martin Wolf Dr. Martin Wolf is spending an entire year at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station.

The black hole of the giant galaxy M87 shoots out an enormous jet of particles. A theoretical model of this jet has now been developed that fits astronomical observations very well. The galaxy Messier 87 (M87) is located 55 million light years away from Earth in the Virgo constellation. It is a giant galaxy with 12,000 globular clusters, making the Milky Way's 200 globular clusters appear modest in comparison.

An image of the Earth taken by EUMETSAT's Meteosat-11 satellite at 09:12 CET this morning An image of the Earth taken by EUMETSAT's Meteosat-11 satellite at 09:12 CET this morning EUMETSAT's contribution involves providing seamless access to massive amounts of data via a multi-cloud data lake.

Safe launch of more advanced satellites and easy access to improved data are key objectives The need to provide more precise information, faster, about the weather and climate underpins the objective

Using a sensor film to monitor how well aircraft and spacecraft withstand the mechanical stresses of flight: Würzburg researchers have received a prize for this idea, which comes with a lot of money.

Europe's meteorological satellite agency, EUMETSAT, is launching an innovative pilot programme to buy, for the first time, data from a commercial satellite fleet operator for use in weather forecasting.

07/14/2021 The super-energetic jets that shoot out of black holes are in the focus of a new DFG research group.

Initial results from the x-ray space telescope eROSITA published Astounding Insights into the Life of Young Stars and Massive Black Holes Two years ago, the eROSITA x-ray telescope flew into space as part of a Russian-German cooperation to create the most comprehensive sky map in x-ray frequency range to date.

A data-exchange agreement between Europe's meteorological satellite agency, EUMETSAT, and the University of Chile will not only strengthen north-south ties but also bring direct benefits to European and South American citizens.

Astrophysicists from Göttingen University involved in construction of high-resolution research instrument The astronomy research instrument CRIRES+ is designed to study planets outside our solar system.

With a loud hum, the drone takes off from the ground. It is transporting a package to the city center.

Martians have kept scientists busy since the 19th century. How people can actually survive in space is being investigated by the team of experts at "SONet" (Sustainable Offworld Network), including Dr. Gisela Detrell from the Institute of Space Systems of the University of Stuttgart.

NetSat soll erstmals die Selbstorganisation von mehreren Satelliten im dreidimensionalen Raum im Rahmen einer Formation im Orbit zeigen.

Today, after a comprehensive review, EUMETSAT and the other European and US partners of the Jason-CS/Sentinel-6 programme confirmed readiness of all systems and teams for the launch and operations of the Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich satellite.

BMBF provides scientists at Münster University with 2.5 million euros / Participation in the large-scale experiments Einstein Telescope, IceCube, KATRIN and XENONnT Investigating the basic buil

In the convection zone of the star, the plasma currents make a huge turnover that lasts about 22 years (mps) Solar activity fluctuates in a rhythm of about eleven years, which is reflected among other things in the frequency of sunspots. A complete magnetic period lasts 22 years. Scientists have long been puzzling over what causes this cycle.

In the early hours of 10 April, the European Space Agency (ESA) BepiColombo spacecraft will fly towards Earth at over 30 kilometres per second.