December 2014
Ready for Mars? From Mars-500 to zero-gravity medical issues
...fully the medical consequences of living in space and undertaking flights to deep space and Mars. The initial impact of zero... the 2011–12 transit flight of the Mars Science Laboratory probe via the unshielded radiation assessment detector experiment...
October 2024
Lunar construction with regolith and robots
... Technology and Korea Aerospace Research Institute) and instrument developers (such as University College London’s Mullard Space Science Laboratory) will be able to improve the correlation between spectral imaging of regolith and the actual chemical...
November 2025
Vantage Vigil - Europe’s first operational space weather mission nears approval
...exploit its L5 orbit. The UK’s contribution includes two key instruments: a plasma analyser built by the Mullard Space Science Laboratory and a magnetometer developed at Imperial College London. Together, they will characterise the speed, density and...
15 May 2020
An unexpected meeting could see Solar Orbiter study Comet ATLAS
... may be crossed on 2020 June 6,” write a trio of scientists, Geraint Jones, Qasim Afghan and Oliver Price, at Mullard Space Science Laboratory, University College London, who have calculated the positions of both the craft and comet. Packed on board...
09 July 2021
Astronomers solve 40-year-old mystery of what causes Jupiter’s X-ray auroras
...team led by Zhonghua Yao, at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing say they have the answer. According to Yao...XMM sees a burst of X-rays,” says William Dunn, Mullard Space Science Laboratory, University College London, who co-led the research. Now ...
21 June 2019
ESA's new mission to intercept a comet
...missions in July 2018, 23 pitches were submitted by the space science community, with six teams subsequently invited to provide more detailed ...Geraint Jones (UCL Mullard Space Science Laboratory, UK) and Colin Snodgrass (University of Edinburgh, UK).
