06 May 2016
Accurate mass of supermassive black hole calculated by astronomers using ALMA
...is the dominant force." This observation is the first demonstration of this capability for ALMA and has helped constrain ... Boizelle, a co-author on the study. "This observation demonstrates a technique that can be applied to many other galaxies ...
07 June 2016
A green light for the LISA Pathfinder mission
... will be able to detect actual gravitational waves by ruling out possible external (and internal) interference. "Now we have to demonstrate that we can actually build a system that is quiet enough and allows us to make the measurement in the future...
13 March 2019
'Marscopter' to accompany rover on Mars 2020 mission
... for the Revolutionary Vertical Lift Technology (RVLT) project. This first autonomous rotorcraft will serve as a technology demonstrator and if it all goes well, then remotely explored regions of the planet’s surface could be mapped in greater detail...
07 December 2020
New Gaia data measures Solar System's acceleration
... solar system with a relative precision of 7 percent is a very important scientific result, and at the same time, it is a convincing demonstration of the quality of the new data,” says Dresden team member Professor Klioner. “The acceleration measured...
June 2017
Automated or human-operated systems?
Watching the movie The Martian recently I was captured by the creativity demonstrated by two key characters - the astronaut stranded on Mars, played by Matt Damon, and the astrodynamicist from NASA’s ...
August 2017
Space invaders and the usual suspects - disruptive trends in Earth observation
... with acquiring the first 10 m images after the explosion of Reactor 4 at the Chernobyl nuclear plant in Ukraine. SPOT 1 demonstrated one of the main benefits of commercial remote sensing for intelligence missions: that it can be shared with anyone...
