June 2018
Archaeologist of the future
... Columbus years of intense lobbying and negotiations before he could finally secure the funding for his first expedition into the unknown. Nowadays, it is often used as an example of the noble desire to explore that is an essential part of the...
August 2018
Exoplanet census promises radical discoveries
... gravitational deflection of light that was first demonstrated by Sir Arthur Eddington in the famous 1919 solar eclipse expedition that provided the first observational confirmation of Einstein’s theory of gravity. The alignment needed to see this...
August 2018
Measuring the pulse of Mars
... understand why it shut down when it did While InSight is clearly the main attraction of this mission, the expedition to Mars is also serving another purpose - a technology demonstration of two mini-spacecraft called MarCO A and MarCO B, or just...
August 2018
Monitoring marine litter by satellite
... of the data gathered so far comes from collecting ML items along coastal monitoring sites and from rare expeditions with boats, mainly in the subtropical gyres of the northern hemisphere. There is little or no data from the higher...
January 2019
Materials make the space mission
Highly sophisticated materials and engineering are crucial for the success of missions for space exploration and settlement. Here, Tommaso Ghidini, head of the Structures, Mechanisms and Materials Division of the European Space Agency (ESA) guides ...
July 2019
Next steps in human space exploration
...will succeed. George Whitesides You have to be an optimist to be in the space business, so I think by that point we will have expeditions to Mars as well as potentially some kind of scientific Moon base and that’s an exciting future that I think will...
