June 2015
Drone regulation in the European Union amid a thriving market
...://droneproject.nationalsecurityzone.org/uncertainties-remainas- faa-integrates-drones-into-american-skies-josh-solomon/ 14: San Jose Mercury News Business, Look up: The commercial drone market is about to take off, by Patrick May, posted 03/01/2014...
October 2015
Baikonur, Kibo and beyond: Japan’s leading role in space
...its space odyssey - in late July, it successfully conducted orbit adjustment in an attempt to place it in orbit around Venus. In addition, a Mercury probe project is underway. This is in collaboration with our ESA colleagues. And then there’s the ISS...
March 2016
Why We Need Space Artists
... lightning bolts. Exploring Mars with mobile laboratory (Digital), from ‘Futures’ It was believed that one side of Mercury always faced the Sun, so one side was bathed in the Stygian gloom of eternal night while the...
August 2016
International cooperation drives Germany’s space ambitions
... research in the field of planetary physics by measuring the heat flows on Mars. The ESA/JAXA BepiColombo mission to Mercury is planned for launch in 2017; DLR is contributing the laser altimeter BELA as well as the infrared spectrometer MERTIS...
September 2016
Preparing the future: the right technology at the right time
...thruster during a test firing. A quartet of these highly efficient T6 thrusters is being installed on ESA’s BepiColombo spacecraft to Mercury. What does this mean in practice? Rather than improving the cost-effectiveness of any individual development...
November 2016
Rosetta - an eventful cruise phase
.... At the same time Elsa Montagnon was nominated spacecraft operations manager for the future BepiColombo mission to Mercury. She left the Rosetta team but was still in the division, in the same corridor, reachable in case...
