June 2019
A reluctant American hero
... facing the planet. The Friends of the Earth movement was formed; James Lovelock came up with the ‘Gaia’ hypothesis of Earth as a self-regulating ecosystem during this period; the phrase ‘Spaceship Earth’ was coined and...
October 2020
Pandemic impacts - the state of the ground segment
... for communicating with deep-space missions and provides support to spacecraft such as Mars Express, Rosetta and Gaia. Cooperation In the absence of complete vertical integration, where one party controls the entire end-to-end solution...
October 2021
Technology transfer and the ‘local’ space market
... community in Scotland has been involved with projects such as NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope and ESA’s GAIA, ExoMars, BepiColombo and Sentinel missions. Its extensive activities have been significantly boosted by the burgeoning, commercial...
18 April 2018
Ambitious Galactic survey to help find Sun's lost family
... analysis effort of the project. The GALAH survey's data release precedes an up and coming data release from Gaia – a satellite that has mapped more than 1.6 billion stars in the Milky Way. Together the two will...
20 September 2018
TESS finds its first exoplanet – a super-Earth 60 light years away
... lead author is Chelsea X Huang from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US, say that astrometric observations with the Gaia spacecraft might ultimately reveal the full three-dimensional geometry of this system to provide clues about how...
17 February 2020
Earth-sized planet behind unusual star signals say astronomers
... LOFAR’s Two-Metre Sky Survey (LoTSS), which was then cross-referenced against observations from the Gaia data release 2 database, the international team got straight to work investigating the cause behind the unusual...
