March 2021
Messier 82’s starburst magnetic highway
... Flight Research Center. The instrument is designed to allow total and polarised flux imaging in five broad bands between wavelengths of 50 μm and 240 μm. Diffraction-limited imaging yields spatial resolutions of 5-20 arcseconds with fields of view...
January 2022
Revealing the magnetic universe
... shows a strong distortion and large differences in their orientation with respect to the structure obtained in the radio band. This decoupling might be related to the gravitational interaction with the small companion, Messier 51b, but, strikingly...
February 2022
Building space-qualified detector chips
... ultraviolet and visible (270–500 nm), near-infrared (675–775 nm) and shortwave infrared (2305–2385 nm) spectral bands. This means that a wide range of pollutants such as nitrogen dioxide, ozone, formaldehyde, sulphur dioxide, methane and...
March 2022
Smoothing the journey to space with the satellite-as-a-service model
... components. Other satellite capabilities will include three-axis attitude control pointing capabilities, VHF/UHF and S-band transceivers for data communications and diagnostic telemetry. This is not the first mission of its kind. OPS...
January 2023
Evolving human space culture – reflections on humanity’s cultural potential in space
....” Stephen Hawking, ‘Why Exploring Space Matters’, TEDxLondon speech, 2016 Humanity has the ability and capacity to band together to achieve these goals and when expressed, give testament to the possibility that lofty ideals of an active...
April 2024
Rotation in the Universe
... image, framed by its winding spiral arms threaded with dark tendrils of dust. As well as the usual bright bands of stars, the spiral arms of M61 are studded with ruby-red patches of light. Tell-tale signs...
