https://spacewatch.global/tag/breakthrough-initiatives/ AN INDEPENDENT PERSPECTIVE ON SPACE Tue, 21 Mar 2023 09:00:43 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.4 https://spacewatch.global/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/SpaceWatchGlobal-Sign-90x90.png https://spacewatch.global/tag/breakthrough-initiatives/ 32 32 https://spacewatch.global/2023/03/space-cafe-radio-with-victor-danchev/ Tue, 21 Mar 2023 09:00:43 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=47368 In this  Space Café Radio - SpaceWatch.Global publisher Torsten Kriening spoke with Victor Danchev, Chief Technical Officer at Endurosat, about the Toliman mission, together with the University Of Syndey and the Breakthrough Initiatives]]> https://spacewatch.global/2023/03/endurosat-joins-mission-to-search-for-exoplanets/ Thu, 16 Mar 2023 07:00:37 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=47247 EnduroSat, a software-flexible NanoSats and space services provider, has announced a partnership with the University of Sydney and Breakthrough Initiatives on its TOLIMAN mission. EnduroSat will design and build a 16U MicroSat called TOLIMAN to perform high-precision astrometric measurements on the Alpha Centauri system. The search for exoplanets will focus on the habitable zone around two Sun-like stars, Alpha Centauri A and B.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2017/09/breakthrough-listen-detects-repeating-fast-radio-bursts-distant-universe/ Wed, 06 Sep 2017 06:00:56 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=5566 Breakthrough Listen – the initiative to find signs of intelligent life in the universe – has detected 15 fast radio bursts emanating from the mysterious “repeater” FRB 121102. Fast radio bursts, or FRBs, are brief, bright pulses of radio emission from distant galaxies. First detected with the Parkes Telescope in Australia, FRBs have now been […]]]>