Mission Control in 2023

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  • The BOOTES global network of robotic telescopes is constantly watching the sky for astronomical transients, from its seven locations spread across both hemispheres.

    • Alberto J. Castro-Tirado
    Mission Control

  • The China Exo-Ecosystem Space Experiment — hosted on the Tiangong Space Station — aims to explore the ability of microbes to survive in space.

    • Duo Cui
    • Lingyan Li
    • Zhu Liu
    Mission Control

  • A radio interferometric array in China will form a one-kilometre aperture for tracing solar bursts and will help to improve the prediction accuracy of dangerous space-weather events.

    • Jingye Yan
    • Ji Wu
    • Chi Wang
    Mission Control

  • Three outrigger stations are being added to CHIME in order to improve its localization of FRB sources, writes Kiyoshi Masui on behalf of the CHIME/FRB Collaboration.

    • Kiyoshi Masui
    Mission Control

  • A year of science from the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer has brought results that are stimulating a re-examination of theoretical models of astrophysical sources.

    • Martin C. Weisskopf
    • Paolo Soffitta
    • Philip Kaaret
    Mission Control

  • ERIS takes over from and improves upon the key functionalities of the VLT’s former NACO and SINFONI instruments.

    • Kateryna Kravchenko
    • Helmut Feuchtgruber
    • Armando Riccardi
    Mission Control