January 2017
New oceans beckon for solar sail technology
... square metre solar sail will deploy, and the sail characterisation phase will begin. Once the system is checked out, the spacecraft... to search for the target and start its approach phase using a combination of radio tracking and optical navigation....
January 2017
Blueprint for NASA’s journey to Mars
...is intended to be executed without any substantial increase in the current inflation-adjusted NASA human exploration budget, given a phased retirement of the ISS beginning in 2024. The key to a cost-effective near-term human exploration programme for...
March 2017
Planetary nebulae may hold clue in search of helium-3
... to the models, including adding extra mixing in a phase known as the red giant branch stage, surface abundances ... for it in a planetary nebula, which is the final evolutionary phase of low- and intermediate-mass stars, where the extensive mass lost...
March 2017
Twinkle - a mission to unravel the story of planets in our galaxy
... of at least 100 bright exoplanets in the Milky Way The team behind ARIEL had already completed an Assessment Phase study for an ESA medium class mission, the Exoplanet Characterisation Observatory (EChO). By combining the instrumentation developed...
November 2017
Delivering a revolutionary reduction in space launch costs
... in 1989. Reaction Engines is now focused on the development phase of SABRE and has grown to 130 employees largely based ...funding which has supported our transition from a successful research phase into development and testing of the engine. In 2013,...
January 2018
When it comes to water Mars may not be the promised land
...The low heat flow coincided with the end of the paroxysmal phase of volcanism, which formed the largest volcanic centres of Mars, ...billion years, at a time that coincided with the strongest phase of volcanism that Mars had ever witnessed. The energy ...
