July 2014
In thrall to a star: understanding the Sun will help us understand our own climate and environment
... effectively stopped for almost 70 years (approximately seven solar cycles). This is known as the Maunder Minimum, after British...flights. Superstorms Over the course of an 11-year solar cycle the Sun will produce thousands of flares and coronal mass...
March 2015
JAXA’s challenge to climate change
... Rain is a critically important element of the planet’s water cycle that affects all organisms, including man. Two-thirds of natural...of global snowfall fills the gap in the water cycle. Precipitation and global warming JAXA is closely monitoring ...
September 2016
Preparing the future: the right technology at the right time
...on maximised capabilities and ‘gold-plated’ reliability of a single large satellite will give way to reducing overall life cycle costs and reliability of supply and schedule on a batch production basis. The way manufacturing occurs is itself evolving...
November 2016
Moon or Mars - NASA’s next logical step?
... overall quality of life. In the future, NASA human exploration missions must remain independent of the start-stop cycle of the US, or any government’s, shifting political allegiances. In the US we have witnessed many times the start of a bold space...
May 2018
Challenging the boundaries of materials science
...the 5,000 to 14,000 hours’ exposure to sunlight (depending on the orientation of samples in their trays). Thermal cycling (34,200 cycles day/night) caused thermal fatigue, delamination and peeling of certain coatings. Impacts (15,000 recorded on LDEF...
February 2022
An interplanetary transportation system
... transit to/from the Earth and Mars in a continuous cycling system. Due to orbital speeds, arrivals and departures would ... a Space Train is that they can be configured for each cycle to fit the people, supplies and materials requirements. The Space ...
