September 2020
High hopes for Brazil’s space ambitions
... does not mean the end of large satellites as they continue to have a market niche. Brazil’s first astronaut, Marcos Pontes in the Destiny laboratory of the International Space Station in April 2006. New opportunities Brazil is in a favourable...
July 2021
Designing for life in outer space - The importance of design for long-term space missions
.... VEST, Integrated Clothing Support System for Intra-Vehicular Activities (IVA) was performed during the Italian Marco Polo Mission in April 2002, and GOAL, Garments for Orbital Activities in weightlessness, was carried out during...
24 June 2016
Will Brexit Lead to Spexit?
.... The deadline set by ESA for industry bids on the next Galileo series is July 19 th. OHB Chief Executive Marco R. Fuchs has said his company is bidding the same OHB-SSTL team that won the previous...
29 June 2018
All things asteroid: Who, What, Where and When
... of organic-coated rock is most likely a comet and not an asteroid. “We think this is a tiny, weird comet,” comments Marco Micheli from the European Space Agency. “We can see in the data that its boost is getting smaller...
30 November 2018
All of the starlight ever produced calculated by scientists
... (EBL) by NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope; a feat that has never been done before, said Marco Ajello, lead author of a recent research paper submitted to Science. The EBL can be described as a cosmic fog composed...
01 April 2019
First independent confirmation of methane on Mars
.... The detection was made by the spacecraft’s Planetary Fourier Spectrometer (PFS) and the team, who is is headed by Marco Giuranna, a planetary scientist at the Institute for Space Astrophysics and Planetology (IAPS) in Rome, say that by implementing...
