08 February 2021
UAE Hope probe poised to enter Mars' orbit tomorrow
...Insertion (MOI) manoeuvre that, based on the success of past missions, means it has a 50 percent chance of failing. This ...Utopia, in May. Last but not least is NASA’s Mars 2020 mission. With a so-far 100 percent success rate when it comes to rovers...
10 February 2021
Success for China as Tianwen-1 enters Mars' orbit
...characterise soil composition and water ice distribution, during a mission expected to last about three months. Meanwhile, high ... been busy testing equipment ready to start on its mission objectives. In September 2020 Tianwen-1 deployed the TW-1 ...
October 2015
Finding Earth-like worlds: the tale of how Kepler-452b was discovered
... in order to recover the expected sensitivity of the original proposed mission. We were funded for three and a half years, and ...the time. We submitted a proposal to request an extended mission, based on the progress we had made improving our pipeline...
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...
September 2019
Extending the life of geostationary orbit satellites
...our commercial satellite servicing vehicle was developed. The Mission Extension Vehicle (MEV) has been in gestation for... It also aims to feed iSAM technology into the commercial Mission Assembly and Repair Vehicle (MARV), a commercial vehicle planned ...
June 2020
Titan’s evolving atmosphere
... be hiding beneath its thick atmosphere, scientists will have to wait until Dragonfly, NASA’s fourth New Frontiers mission that will be launched in 2026 for an arrival at Titan in 2034 (https://dragonfly.jhuapl.edu/). Dragonfly is a mobile, robotic...
