March 2016
Searching for water in the Solar System
...search for the origin of volatiles in the Solar System, the Dawn mission arrived at Ceres in March 2015 and has been pursuing ...in the structure of silicates) is not known yet but the Dawn mission will address this question. In a December 2015 issue of...
August 2016
The promise of space tourism
... are entering a new Space Age. We are all participants in the dawning of a space-traveller society here on Earth. If someone had told ...to space’. On this historic day, everyone witnessed the dawn of a new space age as investor and philanthropist Paul ...
September 2019
A new era in planetary defence missions
... spacecraft. The NEXT-C engine will be about three times as powerful as the similar ion engine used on the Dawn mission to the asteroids Vesta and Ceres. DART will use NASA’s newly developed Roll Out Solar...
August 2017
Big science from small spacecraft
...given us a closer glimpse of only a few; and NASA’s Dawn mission has provided detailed examination of just two of the largest, Ceres... time to get out to the main asteroid belt though – Dawn arrived at its first target, Vesta, nearly four years after ...
January 2019
Preparing for a robotic revolution in Earth orbit
...the compelling promise of space robotics. When the Intelsat New Dawn satellite was unable to deploy its C-band reflector antenna in... failure is rare but expensive. When the Intelsat New Dawn satellite was unable to deploy its C-band reflector antenna ...
April 2019
The changing economics of space
... who created the debris there will be controversy over who is responsible for removing it. But with the dawning of an age when the clean-up of space debris becomes feasible, there is expected to be increased pressure on space nations to implement...
