16 April 2021
Five double star systems potentially suitable for life identified by researchers
... giant planet; the eccentricity (i.e. degree of ellipticity of the orbit), semi-major axis, and period of the hypothetical Earth-like planet's orbit. The team also looked at the "climate inertia" of a hypothetical exoplanet. “Climate inertia" is the...
31 October 2016
Swarm constellation helps figure out why satellites lose their GPS signal
...Rapid changes in the ionosphere tend to happen close to Earth’s magnetic equator and typically just for a couple of ... being turned into exciting science, a true essence of an Earth Explorer mission such as Swarm,” added Rune Floberghagen, ESA’s ...
October 2019
Ground segment transformation - convergence of NewSpace and the cloud
... and process data at scale and the next wave of Earth observation and Internet of Things (IoT) satellite constellations exist ...most scalable, secure and cost-effective data processing environments on Earth. And it is important to note it is not simply...
17 September 2019
Open Cosmos announces development of ‘MANTIS’ satellite
...specialised space companies announces the development of a new Earth Observation satellite called ‘MANTIS’. This name stands as... is very excited to work on this next generation Earth Observation satellite. This project shows that bringing together the...
July 2014
Preventing catastrophic impact
..., and thus are harmless. A collision with a larger body, however, could have very serious consequences. If the Earth were to collide with an object of about a kilometre in diameter, the energy released would be similar to a combined explosion of all...
26 November 2021
A closer Moon could have helped the early habitability of our planet
... requirement however does throw a spanner in the works when Earth’s early years are taken into consideration. There is an ...starting around 700 million years ago. Consequently, a frozen Earth would mean that there would be no, or hardly any,...
