April 2019
The changing economics of space
...the range of operating conditions, both during launch and in orbit. Redundancy is usually built into each major spacecraft subsystem,...of re-lifing, for example in a new orbital location, or for orbit correction. The servicing process can then be ...
04 May 2016
Martian minerals point to subglacial volcanoes
New evidence from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter suggests that billions of years ago, volcanoes erupted beneath an ice sheet on Mars, far from any ice ...
26 February 2018
More water on the Moon than previously thought
... near the poles. However, data gathered from both India's Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft and NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), detected signatures interpreted as water in sunlight reflected from the Moon's surface. Not only that, but...
15 June 2020
Green dayglow detected at Mars for the first time
... the ultraviolet and visible spectrometer (UVIS) instrument on board the European Space Agency’s ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO), a team of European astronomers have now spotted this elusive green line dayglow emission on Mars. Predicted...
03 July 2020
More metal on the Moon than previously thought, new study suggests
...the Moon, a new study by scientists using the Miniature Radio Frequency (Mini-RF) instrument on NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spacecraft will be a welcome delight, as data reveals that the Moon's subsurface might be richer in metals, like...
18 July 2017
Why the space programme needs civil engineers
... on Earth near the equator and reaching out into space, for transporting payloads into low Earth orbit and back. They have the potential to reduce the cost and time of space access enormously. While...
