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August 2018
Exoplanet census promises radical discoveries
... any of the planets in our solar system NASA’s upcoming Wide-Field Infra-Red Survey Telescope (WFIRST), to be launched in 2025, is designed to make revolutionary exoplanet discoveries, as well as study dark energy. WFIRST’s exoplanet microlensing survey will provide a statistical census...
April 2019
Scanning the skies for exoplanets
... of observation time left in its current mission, it is very possible that TESS will find the holy grail of exoplanet discoveries before this period ends. “Finding more Earth-sized planets will be very exciting, but finding an Earth.... More than a million TESS images were downloaded from the Mikulski Archive for Space telescopes (MAST) - a NASA funded data storage facility - in the first few days since the information from sectors 1 and 2 were...
January 2023
Private space stations and NASA’s effort to re-invent itself
... lifetime ended up being more than twice its original design-life (32 years rather than 15). However, the NASA of the 2020s is clearly intent on reinventing itself. Today, it is no longer developing ‘technical specifications’ in-... it is producing ‘performance specifications’ from which private space companies develop competitive designs that NASA selects after a detailed review. This article explores the status of planning and implementation for...
November 2018
How many people does it take to colonise an exoplanet?
... us who want to actually visit in person, the recent discovery of Proxima Centauri b gives some cause for optimism. Orbiting the nearest star to the Sun, this is the closest exoplanet we can find. It is likely to be a rocky ... and evolution of black holes. He has been selected to lead observations of galaxies for a forthcoming NASA satellite called IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer, to be launched in 2021). The HERITAGE project created...
11 May 2016
Kepler scientists announce a major increase in confirmed exoplanet numbers
... even though at this stage they cannot be claimed as true exoplanet discoveries. In this latest announcement, Kepler scientists have doubled the number of known exoplanets smaller than the size of Neptune in our own Solar System ... at the teleconference yesterday, Natalie Batalha, co-author of the paper and the Kepler mission scientist at NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, California said, “before there was a Kepler spacecraft there were...
19 May 2017
Exoplanets galore and possibly the next Trappist-1 system?
It has been a good month for announcing exoplanet discoveries, as two separate teams using the same instrument have found 20 super-Earth to Neptune-mass planets in one ... orbit – and puts tighter constraints on the previously identified neighbouring planets. HD20794 d corresponds to a super-Earth mass exoplanet while the signal at a period of about 330 d probably correspond to a Neptune-like planet located in the habitable zone...
17 June 2020
NASA wants to visit Neptune’s weird moon Triton
... now been earmarked by NASA as a potential target to study up close as part of its Discovery Program mission. Running alongside NASA's larger “flagship” planetary science explorations, the agency’s Discovery Programme makes use of ...a young, unique surface,” Mitchell concludes. Trident is one of four concepts being considered for NASA’s Discovery Program mission; the remaining three are VERITAS (Venus Emissivity, Radio Science, InSAR, Topography, ...
January 2017
Blueprint for NASA’s journey to Mars
...this possibility or potential mass growth elsewhere in the system. Science The mission accelerates scientific discovery of origins and the search for life using scientist-astronauts and advanced robotics to conduct ... space technologies in development today and provides a blueprint for NASA’s Journey to Mars. This plan provides the opportunity for significant scientific discovery, can be evolved to accommodate specific mission objectives, and ...
May 2024
Out of this world – NASA’s textile technicians and innovations for space voyages
...stronger than steel, lighter than aluminium and boasts the conductivity of copper. NASA’s textile outreach activities NASA’s textile scientists and engineers have always collaborated with artists, fashion designers, ...emotional and physical experience of living in space, and preserve human discoveries. A few of these programmes related to textile technology include: NASA seamstress Aylene Baker pictured stitching part of a replacement heat shield...
