Aerospace

Follow all the news from the space sector. Keep up to date with the latest launches and innovations in the aerospace industry, including NASA and space tourism. Actualités Air et Espace allows you to better understand the new stakes of the space conquest. SpaceX and Boeing have been designated to transport astronauts to the ISS.

New players are arriving in the sector, such as China, India,... Europe is about to launch Ariane 6. A revolution is under way in aerospace, with the integration of new technologies, such as for satellites for example.

New Horizons flew over Ultima Thule, the most distant object ever flown by a space probe

An important scientific discovery The first is 14 kilometres in diameter and the second is 19 kilometres. The star has much to tell us about the processes, by accretion, of the birth of planets. "We are witnessing a physical representation of the beginning of the planetary formation frozen in time," explains Jeff Moore, who leads the mission's geology and geophysics team.

Nasa's Insight mission to Mars explained

The Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport (InSight) was made by Lockheed Martin. It is a lander, with different payload instruments. It was launched on 5 May 2018 and landed on Mars on 26 November 2018.

The first 8k video taken from space

It's on his Twitter account that the European Space Agency (ESA ) has announced the first 8K video taken from space . These images are among the sharpest and clearest currently made possible by technology. In this ultra-high definition video, taken in collaboration with NASA, was taken by ISS astronauts.