June 2015
The day Philae landed: how a rough touchdown still made history at the Rosetta Mission
...date back to the mid-90s, when Philae’s study and design phase began. In particular the landing gear had to be designed in a... only effective solution. Fortunately it worked and the heating phase continued as planned. These unexpected troubles led to a...
October 2021
A US space strategy for 2050: shaping a domain on the cusp
... to 1957, humans could only imagine. Now, as the space domain transitions from an exploration and discovery phase to a commerce and security phase, it will be ever more important to ensure that the interests of the US, its allies and partners...
November 2021
Space insurance and the future of risk management
... launched to orbit in March 2021. Bespoke solutions The coverage offered by insurance policies addresses the four main phases of a satellite’s existence, thus providing manufacturing, pre-launch, launch and in-orbit coverage At the time of that first...
08 April 2020
NASA funds vast radio telescope concept on far side of the Moon
..., at a resolution comparable to the well-known Apollo 8 Earthrise photo,” Derleth said. For a full list of NIAC 2020 Phase I, Phase II and Phase III Selections, click here (opens in new window); https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/spacetech/niac/2...
July 2016
Plasma Crystals - from space research to medicine on Earth and back to space again
.... The length and velocity shown are calculated by scaling the complex plasma characteristics to those of water. Figure 4: Phase separation between two particle populations of different size. The droplet was formed by first injecting a stream of small...
January 2019
Engineering six-hour solar eclipses with formation flying
...Sun, and acquiring again the formation before the next apogee phase (event 3). The breaking and acquisition of the formation is...on pseudo-range measurements, and in fine mode using carrier phase measurements. As the Proba-3 orbit goes beyond the GNSS ...
