Cyril Dupuy, the founder of smart telescope maker Vaonis, has set a new record by capturing Europe’s highest-altitude image of the sun with one of the company’s telescopes during an expedition to scale Mont Blanc earlier this year. VESPERA SMART TELESCOPE (Image credit: Amazon) Wanting to see sunspots or far away galaxies? The Vaonis Vespera is a smart telescope for …
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Enabling & Support 16/07/2025 2811 views 17 likes The European Space Agency (ESA) and UK-based Frazer-Nash have kicked off INVICTUS, a research programme with the goal of developing hypersonic technologies applicable to future reusable vehicles capable of horizontal launch. INVICTUS is funded through ESA’s General Support Technology Programme (GSTP) and Technology Development Element (TDE) and is a fully reusable experimental …
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On July 7, 2025, the European Space Agency (ESA) achieved a groundbreaking feat in space communications by establishing Europe’s first optical communication link with a spacecraft in deep space. This link, created in collaboration with NASA, was made possible through the Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) experiment onboard NASA’s Psyche mission, which is currently over 265 million kilometers away from …
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