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  • Rymdteknik ska stoppa tjuvjakten

    Varje dag dödas i genomsnitt 55 elefanter och 3 noshörningar av tjuvjägare för sina betar och horn. Nu startar det 5-åriga innovationsprojektet Space for Wildlife som ett initiativ i linje med Agenda 2030. Det är rymdföretaget Umbilical Design och Peace Parks Foundation som visar hur teknik från rymdsektorn kan leda till nya innovationer för att stoppa tjuvjakten.

  • PRESSINBJUDAN: Möt Japans första kvinna i rymden Chiaki Mukai och Christer Fuglesang

    Dr Chiaki Mukai var hjärtkirurg och forskare när hon rekryterades som astronaut i Japan på 1980-talet. Hon har varit med på två rymdfärder och då ansvarat för olika experiment inom rymdmedicin och livsvetenskap. I dag är hon chef för Japan Aerospace Exploration Agencys (JAXA) Center for Applied Space Medicine and Human Research, och Vice President för Tokyo University of Science.

  • Drönare på Svalbard kan hjälpa arktisforskare med klimatarbete

    Rymdföretaget Umbilical Design arrangerar tillsammans med sin teknikpartner ÅF en drönarworkshop på Svalbard för forskningsstationschefer från 79 arktiska forskningsstationer. Syftet är att se hur drönare kan stödja klimatforskare i arbetet mot den globala uppvärmningen. Att driva hållbar utveckling med hjälp av rymdteknik har blivit något av ett kännetecken för Umbilical Design.

  • ESA lägger rymdkonferens i Lund

    ​Rymdteknik för hållbara, smarta städer och innovationer? Det är något som ska diskuteras när den Europeiska Rymdorganisationen ESA (European Space Agency) håller konferens under tre dagar i Lund i mars.

  • Umbilical Design erhåller förnyat treårskontrakt från ESA för att överföra rymdteknik till svensk industri

    Det svenska innovationsföretaget Umbilical Design, ledande inom design för rymden och extrema miljöer, har fått förnyat treårskontrakt som Space Broker för Sverige med den europeiska rymdorganisationen ESA. Umbilical Design arbetar med tekniköverföring från rymdsektorn till andra områden som till exempel medicinteknik, fordonsindustri och hållbar stadsplanering.

  • Umbilical Design chosen as a 2016 Red Herring Top 100 Europe Winner

    April 25, 2016, Stockholm, Sweden – Last week in Amsterdam, Red Herring announced its Red Herring Europe award winners this evening at the Top 100 forum, recognizing Europe’s leading private companies and celebrating these companies innovations and technologies across their respective industries. The Swedish innovation company Umbilical Design was chosen as a 2016 Red Herring Top 100 Europe Winner

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Image: This shimmering view of interstellar gas and dust was captured by the European Space Agency’s Euclid space telescope. The nebula is part of a so-called dark cloud, named LDN 1641. It sits at about 1300 light-years from Earth, within a sprawling complex of dusty gas clouds where stars are being formed, in the constellation of Orion.In visible light this region of the sky appears mostly dark, with few stars dotting what seems to be a primarily empty background. But, by imaging the cloud with the infrared eyes of its NISP instrument, Euclid reveals a multitude of stars shining through a tapestry of dust and gas.This is because dust grains block visible light from stars behind them very efficiently but are much less effective at dimming near-infrared light.The nebula is teeming with very young stars. Some of the objects embedded in the dusty surroundings spew out material – a sign of stars being formed. The outflows appear as magenta-coloured spots and coils when zooming into the image.In the upper left, obstruction by dust diminishes and the view opens toward the more distant Universe with many galaxies lurking beyond the stars of our own galaxy.Euclid observed this region of the sky in September 2023 to fine-tune its pointing ability. For the guiding tests, the operations team required a field of view where only a few stars would be detectable in visible light; this portion of LDN 1641 proved to be the most suitable area of the sky accessible to Euclid at the time.The tests were successful and helped ensure that Euclid could point reliably and very precisely in the desired direction. This ability is key to delivering extremely sharp astronomical images of large patches of sky, at a fast pace. The data for this image, which is about 0.64 square degrees in size – or more than three times the area of the full Moon on the sky – were collected in just under five hours of observations.Euclid is surveying the sky to create the most extensive 3D map of the extragalactic Universe ever made. Its main objective is to enable scientists to pin down the mysterious nature of dark matter and dark energy.Yet the mission will also deliver a trove of observations of interesting regions in our galaxy, like this one, as well as countless detailed images of other galaxies, offering new avenues of investigation in many different fields of astronomy.[Technical details: The colour image was created from NISP observations in the Y-, J- and H-bands, rendered blue, green and red, respectively. The size of the image is 11 232 x 12 576 pixels. The jagged boundary is due to the gaps in the array of NISP’s sixteen detectors, and the way the observations were taken with small spatial offsets and rotations to create the whole image. This is a common effect in astronomical wide-field images.][Image description: The focus of the image is a portion of LDN 1641, an interstellar nebula in the constellation of Orion. In this view, a deep-black background is sprinkled with a multitude of dots (stars) of different sizes and shades of bright white. Across the sea of stars, a web of fuzzy tendrils and ribbons in varying shades of orange and brown rises from the bottom of the image towards the top-right like thin coils of smoke.]

Euclid peers through a dark cloud’s dusty veil

Video: 00:01:48 The Copernicus Sentinel-1D satellite has joined the Sentinel-1 mission in orbit. Launch took place on 4 November 2025 at 22:02 CET (18:02 local time) on board an Ariane 6 launcher from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana.The Sentinel-1 mission delivers high-resolution radar images of Earth’s surface, performing in all weathers, day-and-night. This service is used by disaster response teams, environmental agencies, maritime authorities and climate scientists, who depend on frequent updates of critical data.Sentinel-1D will work in tandem with Sentinel-1C, flying in the same orbit but 180° apart, to optimise global coverage and data delivery. Both satellites have a C-band synthetic aperture radar (SAR) instrument on board, which captures high-resolution imagery of Earth’s surface. They are also equipped with Automatic Identification System (AIS) instruments to improve detection and tracking of ships. When Sentinel-1D is fully operational, it will enable more frequent AIS observations, including data on vessel identity, location and direction of passage, enabling precise tracking.Sentinel-1D was launched on Europe’s heavy-lift rocket Ariane 6 on flight designated VA265. Read full story: Copernicus Sentinel-1D reaches orbit on Ariane 6Access the related broadcast quality video material: Sentinel-1D launch on Ariane 6 - VA265 / Sentinel-1 mission animations

Copernicus Sentinel-1D launch highlights

Video: 01:17:22 The Copernicus Sentinel-1D satellite has joined the Sentinel-1 mission in orbit. Launch took place on 4 November 2025 at 22:03 CET (18:03 local time) on board an Ariane 6 rocket from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana. The Sentinel-1 mission delivers high-resolution radar images of Earth’s surface, performing in all weathers, day-and-night. This service is used by disaster response teams, environmental agencies, maritime authorities and climate scientists, who depend on frequent updates of critical data.The Sentinel-1D satellite will work in tandem with Sentinel-1C, flying in the same orbit but 180° apart, to optimise global coverage and data delivery. Both satellites have a C-band synthetic aperture radar (SAR) instrument on board, which captures high-resolution imagery of Earth’s surface. They are also equipped with Automatic Identification System (AIS) instruments to improve detection and tracking of ships. When Sentinel-1D is fully operational, it will enable more frequent AIS observations, including data on vessel identity, location and direction of passage, enabling precise tracking.Sentinel-1D was launched on Europe’s heavy-lift rocket Ariane 6 on flight designated VA265. Read full story: Copernicus Sentinel-1D reaches orbit on Ariane 6Access the related broadcast quality video material: Sentinel-1D launch on Ariane 6 - VA265 / Sentinel-1 mission animations

Copernicus Sentinel-1D launch coverage

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