20 July 2016
ESA open new laboratory in UK to test applications for future space missions
..., will concentrate on building up parts layer by layer with powder or wire feedstock that is melted using a laser or electron beam source. 3D printed parts are slowly making an impact within spacecraft engineering and if the recent JUNO mission...
12 October 2016
NASA to move ahead with plans for private ISS modules
... a Request for Information earlier this year, with an offer to use the docking port currently used by the BEAM module. Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy John Holdren and NASA Administrator...
09 January 2017
X-rays from a 'missing link' neutron star could shed light on magnetar mystery
... remnant of an exploded star that emits radio waves in predictable pulses akin to the way a lighthouse sweeps out beams of light. Magnetars on the other hand have violent, high-energy outbursts of gamma rays and X-rays and...
24 February 2017
Researchers find a new type of X-ray transient
...-S XT1 could be an “orphan” X-ray afterglow from an off-axis short-duration Gamma-ray Burst (GRB), or a highly beamed Tidal Disruption Event (TDE). TDE’s occur when when a star passes so close to a black hole that it experiences...
28 April 2017
Cassini's first dive between Saturn and its rings
... was orientated at an angle to protect it. The craft, which is now back in contact with mission control, is in the process of beaming back science and engineering data, via NASA's Deep Space Network Goldstone Complex in California's Mojave Desert...
29 September 2017
Virgo and LIGO detect fourth gravitational wave signal
... this shape). As such, both have mirrors at the ends of the arms to reflect light in order to combine light beams and create an interference pattern. The advantage of combining detectors is that scientists can confine the direction of the...
