March 2017
Twinkle - a mission to unravel the story of planets in our galaxy
... on the Ultraviolet and Visible Spectrometer (UVIS) instrument channel, built by the Open University and launched on the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) in March 2016. Adaptations to ELVIS (optimising the wavelength range of the detectors, using...
October 2017
Exploring Jupiter’s icy moons
... member to ESA in February 2003. He has worked on projects including Huygens, Chandrayaan-1, Venus Express, Mars Express, and ExoMars and since January 2015 as project scientist for JUICE.
November 2017
Roving the red planet
... observed by Spirit on the floor of Gusev Crater might be evidence of such activity. It remains for future rovers, ESA’s ExoMars, and NASA’s Mars 2020, to build on this picture, and potentially build the case for a period of life...
October 2018
Sustainable ways of living on the Moon and Mars
... Peake tested this system during his 2015-2016 Principia mission, linking up and operating the ‘Bridget’ Exomars test rover at Stevenage, UK direct from orbit. Plans include using any extensive water available from local...
February 2020
Europe’s role in space standardisation
... worldwide agencies collaborate on a common mission (for example, the International Space Station with its many partners, ExoMars with Russia, Earthcare with JAXA, James Webb Telescope with NASA, SMILE with China), we develop a set...
January 2021
Time to change our relationship with space?
...and engineering on some of Europe’s iconic space missions such as Giotto, Hubble, Envisat, Beagle 2, Lisa Pathfinder and ExoMars. In 2014 he took up a new role at the UK Space Agency as Head of International Space Policy where he championed Space for...
