December 2014
Finding NEO
... small bodies composed predominantly of stony material ejected from the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter due to gravitational and non-gravitational perturbations to their orbits, and migrating closer to Earth. Depending on details of their...
March 2015
ESA’s Clean Space Initiative and the role of the LCA tool
.... And what should be the optimal functional unit if an Earth observation mission should be assessed, or a scientific mission to Jupiter? After the assessment of three different types of space missions, study “hotspots” were identified. These areas...
October 2015
Earth independence: new definitions of home on Mars missions and beyond
..., as seen in 1990 by the Galileo spacecraft I have a picture of Earth taken in 1990 by the Galileo spacecraft on its way to Jupiter. From a distance of 4 million miles our home appears a planetary system, with Earth and our Moon travelling...
July 2016
France, Europe and Russia - two decades of space launch cooperation
... launcher system in this manner paved the way for a one-of-a-kind cooperation within the field worldwide. Jupiter launch control center, Guiana Space Centre Most of the Soyuz launcher-dedicated installations are similar to that...
August 2016
International cooperation drives Germany’s space ambitions
... in 2017; DLR is contributing the laser altimeter BELA as well as the infrared spectrometer MERTIS. Starting in 2022, the Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) will be launched to investigate the gas giant and its moons. DLR will...
September 2016
Life in the extremes: confessions of an astrobiologist
... of life that could exist within the ice or below the surface ice cover of the icy moons of Jupiter for example. I was again very surprised by the endurance of these extraordinary creatures. They are not only...
