April 2019
Building the UK’s first spaceport
... precludes a launch to the East, so a UK spaceport could not access equatorial orbits. Launches to polar or near polar orbits require a trajectory towards the polar regions, and the Earth’s rotation has much less effect. The location of a northern...
January 2021
Evolution of volatiles on the Moon
... re-analysis of the remotely sensed data from lunar polar regions showed widespread hematite (Fe2O3), which seemingly requires...sequestered into the cold traps of permanently shadowed lunar polar regions. Reconnection provided a pathway for the early ...
August 2019
Lessons from the Sun
...radio signals used to monitor the state of the dense polar ionosphere could no longer penetrate it. Meanwhile, the original ...called ground level event. Energetic particles pummelled Earth’s polar ozone layer and spacecraft solar panels alike, and ...
10 December 2021
SpaceX launches NASA's IXPE mission
... ahead. But tonight, we celebrate!” IXPE carries three state-of-the-art space telescopes with special polarization-sensitive detectors. Polarization is a property of light that holds clues to the environment from which the light originates. The new...
December 2014
MAVEN and the evolution of Mars
...than is currently detectable on either the surface (including in the polar ice caps) or in its atmosphere. The presence of early ... surface and in its shallow subsurface, most evident in polar cap and subsurface ice, suggests that what remains is not...
December 2014
Ready for Mars? From Mars-500 to zero-gravity medical issues
...looked at the mental strain of isolation and danger in polar explorers. He believes NASA and other space agencies could ...learn from this: “About 40–60 per cent of polar explorers experience ‘polar madness’ due to seeing the same people day after...
