February 2021
Space archaeology - preserving our orbital heritage
...created. Thus, the HST could be viewed as being as significant to the history of science as Darwin’s HMS Beagle, Newton’s ‘Opticks’ treatise or Leonardo da Vinci’s notebooks. Given the chance, we’d do everything we could to preserve those, so why not...
April 2021
Satellite servicing comes of age
..., the flip side of this high specific impulse is low thrust; the EP system produces only a small fraction of a newton (roughly equivalent to the force imparted on your hand by a few sheets of paper). While not an exact analogy, imagine...
06 December 2015
Virgin Galactic to Use Boeing 747 for LauncherOne Missions
...The aircraft will allow LauncherOne to carry heavier payloads. “We basically wanted to maximize the productive capacity of the Newton engines we were developing” for LauncherOne, said George Whitesides, chief executive of Virgin Galactic. The company...
02 March 2016
Using MUSCLES to test for life on other planets
... Systems Treasury Survey, or MUSCLES for short. MUSCLES uses observations of X-rays made with Chandra and XMM-Newton, ultraviolet observations with Hubble, and visible observations from Hubble and ground-based observatories. Why study...
15 March 2016
Are our ideas of Dark Matter wrong?
... such as spiral galaxies and clusters of galaxies found that these objects were not behaving as expected. When Newton's Law of Gravity were applied to explain the rapid motion of the stars and gas within these systems...
12 August 2016
Astronomers spot two merging galaxy clusters bridged by X-rays
... and Leiden Observatory have imaged using data taken from the Suzaku satellite and the XMM-Newton telescope. During a merger of galactic proportions, an enormous amount of energy is released (around 1064 erg which is equivalent to 1057...
