November 2019
PROSPECTing for lunar polar volatiles
... ESA Ministerial conference in November 2019, where new budgets for European space activities – including lunar exploration missions – will be allocated. Maximum temperatures of Permanently Shadowed Regions (PSRs) at the Lunar South Pole. Areas never...
August 2020
Interstellar aspirations
...star system within a generation. To achieve a transit time comparable to current long-term space exploration missions to the outer solar system, the Starshot mission would need to last a few decades at most. This requires a probe to travel about 1000...
June 2022
Finnish start-up ReOrbit aims to revolutionise space industry
...satellites are built to meet the boundless demands of future missions. We need to exponentially increase the technological change in..., Suvanam designed electronic systems for Venus exploration missions using a material called silicon carbide. Moving...
September 2023
India signs up to the Artemis Accords
... risk of harmful interference. 6. Release of Scientific Data: commit to open sharing of scientific data arising from space exploration missions. Not mandatory for private-sector operations. 7. Preserving Outer Space Heritage: undertake to ensure new...
September 2023
How microorganisms survive space travel
... Levinskikh M.A., Deshevaya E.A., Sugimoto M., Alekseev V.R., Okuda T., Gusev O.A., Sychev V.N.. Planetary protection challenges in space exploration missions and ways of their resolution with account of the results of Russian exobiology experiments...
October 2023
Slovenia’s footprint in space
... robot concept is easily adaptable to different scientific applications of exploration and can be considered a potential technological solution for future scientific exploration missions. It also provides the capability of carrying small payloads...
