February 2021
Why flat panel antennas remain a challenge
Flat panel antennas have long been anticipated to revolutionise the comms-on-the-move market. However, as yet, no one seems to have totally cracked it. Helen Weedon asks how we go from the promises of high-performing, low cost flat panel antennas to...
14 March 2018
Researchers rethink quasar connection after new find
After a survey of nearly 200 regions to analyse protoclusters and quasars, researchers are having to think twice about the relationship between galaxy formation and how these massive and extremely remote celestial objects that surround black holes ...
04 April 2016
Astronomers have for the first time found gas-phase ammonia in a protoplanetary disc
...Observatory an international team of astronomers have detected gas-phase ammonia in a protoplanetary disc around TW Hya ... outer protoplanetary disc, the synthesis of ammonia in the gas phase relies on ion-molecule chemistry. If the water and ammonia ...
October 2017
Third quarter phenomenon - the psychology of time in space
... this change. Other researchers found a decrease in mood occurring in stages around the mid-point and third-phase of the stay in Antarctica (Palinkas Houseal, 2000; Palinkas et al., 2000; Stuster et al., 2000; Steel, 2001). More recently, reductions...
July 2019
Science and sensation in microgravity
... is carried out at between 4000 to 10,000 m. In France, the horizontal altitude is typically around 6100 m. During the entry phase the crew prepares for the manoeuvre by pushing the speed to approximately 825 km/h, inducing a vertical speed of 590...
March 2017
Rosetta – outstanding climax to pioneering mission
... 1996. I have accompanied the mission throughout the initial phases of the spacecraft design up to the dramatic moments of... missions and its conclusion marked the end of the pioneering phase of space exploration. The new generations of spacecraft, of ...
