02 August 2019
Newly found exoplanet may be suitable for life
... of around (254 degrees Celsius (490 degrees Fahrenheit). Its companion, GJ 357 c, which although more Earth-sized – it has at least 3.4 times Earth’s mass – is also a sizzler. This hot-body is as hot as 126 degrees Celsius (260 degrees Fahrenheit...
January 2021
Asgardia’s project for a new module to expand Space Station
... procured docking module to the ISS was announced as a key step to expanding the permanent human presence in low Earth orbit. Dr Igor Ashurbeyli, General Designer, provides a technical overview of the project and the industrial partnership arranged...
February 2022
Building space-qualified detector chips
...the concentrations of these gases from sensors stationed on Earth, such an approach suffers from several significant drawbacks.... for monitoring a number of important gases in the Earth’s atmosphere, the leading material that possesses this capability ...
February 2023
Remote sensing by satellite - People’s Republic of China
... III is China’s first high-resolution civilian stereoscopic Earth observation programme and has the overall goal of creating...the satellite based part of CHEOS. Gaofen high resolution Earth observation satellite (GF) For the CHEOS programme, more than...
05 March 2021
For the first time, organic materials essential for life have been found on the surface of an asteroid
... because S-type (stony) asteroids, the type which gives rise to the most popular type of meteorite found on Earth – chondrites – typically have low organic contents. As such, studying the organic make-up of chondrites is challenging, especially when...
October 2015
From NEOs to real action: testing asteroid impact scenarios
... tracking and providing updated estimates. As the object passed on the other side of the Sun, as viewed from Earth, it became unobservable. (A satellite or spacecraft is needed to conduct observations when the asteroid passes on the other side of the...
