March 2018
Plumes on Europa - tasting an extra-terrestrial ocean
... for such a confirmation until either JUICE or NASA’s Europa Clipper mission arrive at the ice moon in the early 2030s. Artist’s concept...detectability of Europa’s water vapour plumes from a flyby mission” 2017. Icarus, volume 289. doi:10.1016/j.icarus...
21 July 2017
A new way to search for gravitational waves?
... first suggested in 1990 by a different team of scientists, however missions such as Gaia were not available at the time to test such...been collected for another high-profile mission. Perhaps data from other missions such as the PLATO satellite, which...
15 September 2017
A sad farewell as Cassini takes its final plunge...
...give us a greater understanding of Saturn and its moons, will end its mission by plummeting into the very object it was sent to study. Today, ...five months, Cassini has been completing its Grand Finale mission; a series of 22 orbits that each pass ...
23 March 2018
ESA selects ARIEL to look closely at exoplanets
... institutes from 15 ESA member state countries, with UK institutions providing the leadership and planning for the mission. ARIEL’s Principal Investigator, Prof Giovanna Tinetti of UCL said, “Although we’ve now discovered around 3800 planets orbiting...
26 November 2018
Success for InSight as it performs a flawless landing on Mars
... a concept to a spacecraft approaching Mars - and even longer since I was first inspired to try to undertake this kind of mission," said Bruce Banerdt of JPL, InSight's principal investigator. "But even after landing, we'll need to be patient for the...
09 October 2019
The first satellite servicing spacecraft launches successfully
... running low on fuel. The MEV is on a mission to intercept the fuel-hungry satellite and attempt the first-..., and it will serve multiple clients during its lifetime.” A second Mission Extension Vehicle, set for launch in 2020, is also planned. This...
