June 2015
Ultimate sunbather: NASA and ESA collaborate on Solar Orbiter
... how it interacts with the rest of the Solar System. Orbiting at a closest approach distance of 0.28 AU, inside the orbit of Mercury, Solar Orbiter will study in unprecedented detail how our Sun creates and controls the heliosphere, the...
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...
