May 2018
Challenging the boundaries of materials science
...regulating chemicals produced or imported in the EU. Part of the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) solar array returned from low Earth orbit by astronauts after the HST’s first service mission, showing the atomic oxygen protection silicone coating to have...
October 2020
Superconductors - key to unlocking high power space missions
...with the transportation of several tens of tonnes of cargo between the Earth and the Moon. At such masses, the use of chemical ... of a 600kW mission transferring a 27-tonne cargo payload from low Earth orbit (LEO) to the Moon, the use of HTS could ...
27 November 2015
NASA Set to Improve Orion's Heat Shield
...NASA's next generation spacecraft, will take astronauts Beyond Low-Earth Orbit (BLEO) and into deep space. Orion can carry...the craft from extreme temperatures experienced on reentry into Earth's atmosphere. During Orion's Exploration Flight Test (EFT...
08 December 2015
France and Germany Confirm Plans to Launch Methane Monitoring Satellite
... million euros ($266 million), which includes construction and launch of the satellite, three years operations in low Earth orbit, and the ground infrastructure. The launch is expected to happen in 2020 on either a Europeanized Russian Soyuz rocket...
06 January 2016
France and Germany May Withdraw from ISS in 2020
...’s Orion crew exploration vehicle – whose mission is not centered on the international space station but destinations beyond low Earth orbit. ESA has already reduced its ISS operating costs – not including the common operating charges – by more...
08 February 2016
Japan’s Astro-H mission due to launch on February 12, 2016
... Exploration Agency (JAXA) and is due to be launched from the Tanegashima Space Center, aboard an H-IIA rocket into low Earth orbit in a few days time. The purpose of ASTRO-H is to explore the structure and evolution of the high energy Universe...
