April 2020
Lunar artefact – a time capsule for the future
... Associate Professor Dylan Vitone and Assistant Teaching Professor Matt Zywica, and myself serving as project director. ... context. Disc designed by Mark Baskinger with Steve Tonsor, Matt Zywica, Christie Chong, Deniz Sokullu, Maggie Banks, Natalie...
02 October 2018
New technique could provide fresh insights into how the Moon was formed
... this information by producing 3D images which are then mapped to reveal the history of individual crystals of olivine. Dr. Matt Pankhurst of Instituto Volcanológico de Canarias and NASA lunar principle investigator explains; “With this new technique...
March 2017
Growing plastic-producing bacteria in space
... independence in order to make long-term space missions such as NASA’s ‘Journey to Mars’ both possible and practical. Matt Damon growing crops on Mars in The Martian. This is where ‘synthetic biology’ could provide valuable solutions by supporting...
August 2018
Flouting the rules on satellite registrations
...commercial space era. She is a recipient of the Erin J. C. Arsenault Fellowship in Space Governance and Nicolas Mateesco Matte Graduate Fellowship in Air and Space Law. She was recognised as an Emerging Space Leader by the International Astronautical...
February 2023
How to grow plants in a spacecraft
The launch of NASA’s Artemis 1 mission to the Moon in November marked another step on the journey that will one day lead to humans visiting our nearest planetary neighbour, Mars. A human mission will eventually follow on the heels of multiple ...
15 November 2014
Pioneering Philae completes main mission before hibernation
.... “The data collected by Philae and Rosetta is set to make this mission a game-changer in cometary science,” says Matt Taylor, ESA’s Rosetta project scientist. Fred Jansen, ESA’s Rosetta mission manager, says, “At the end of this...
