April 2021
Satellite servicing comes of age
... with new images from one of the servicer’s three imaging systems: visible, infrared, and laser radar (LIDAR). Meanwhile, the... tugs to carry customer payloads all over the cislunar (Earth-Moon) system. Following the trail that has been blazed by the ...
January 2022
Earth - no longer humanity’s only home
... crewed vehicle from Mars. Crews would rendezvous with their Earth return capsule around the Moon and return to Earth from the Moon’s orbit. If this approach is adopted, the Earth-Moon system will be home to our returning astronauts. Second, just...
13 March 2015
Ceres breakthrough: NASA's Dawn is first probe to visit a dwarf planet
... missions could not have done. [Dawn is the only mission ever to orbit two objects beyond the Earth-moon system.] It kept our costs down but enabled us to behave in a particular way. Although our legacy to science is with Vesta...
08 April 2019
Catching Stardust: Comets, Asteroids and the Birth of the Solar System
...the formation of the solar system, placing comets and asteroids in the context of the Earth-Moon system and considering them both as ... ‘extinction events’ and the “mission to save planet Earth”. The book is illustrated with an eight-page colour insert...
April 2019
LISA Pathfinder – paving the way for future studies of the gravitational universe
...LISA-like observatory down to 38 cm Beside the chemical propulsion system, the SCM was equipped with a set of six redundant ...a heliocentric orbit, minimising the return probability to the Earth-Moon system over the next 100 years. For the last three ...
May 2019
Cold comfort for astronauts
.... Looking forward, the next obvious destination for human explorers is Mars, taking people beyond low-Earth orbit and the Earth-Moon system. A round-trip mission to our planetary neighbour takes about 1000 days, which introduces new...
