18 December 2019
US Senate suggests Artemis delay after requested funding halved
... notable project to secure a continuation of funds for the next year was the Europa Clipper. The bill specifies that NASA must also develop a Europa Lander – a separately launched spacecraft that would lay a foundation for the...
March 2016
Searching for water in the Solar System
... to a better understanding of the extent of volatile migration across the Solar System. Diverse surface geology on Jovian moon Europa. Linear cracks and ridges crisscross the surface, interrupted by regions of disrupted terrain where the surface ice...
September 2016
Co-operating in space transcends national identity
.... In space terms, the failure of the Europa programme - developed by the European Launcher Development Organisation... European cooperation for the service of peace. Ultimately, the Europa programme was too decentralised, too abstract and too defused,...
September 2017
Australia’s unique space history
...(a precursor of the European Space Agency) conducted its Europa launch vehicle programme, the largest space project undertaken at...launch the WRESAT satellite and those of the ELDO Europa F-4 vehicle. Recovered from their original desert impact ...
July 2020
Life in the universe – common or not?
...lurking in subsurface oceans under the icy crust of Jupiter’s moon Europa, we haven’t found it yet. However, it is nonsensical ... might be lurking in subsurface oceans under the icy crust of Europa, we haven’t found it yet or found evidence of any ...
25 September 2020
Alien Oceans - The Search for Life in the Depths of Space
... not news to stop the presses; the possibility of life on Europa, to name just one moon, has been discussed for some time...admits that a “childhood obsession with aliens” led him to study Europa; and as for writing a book about it, he further reveals ...
