09 September 2019
Ancient light helps to unravel cosmic "dark age"
... a dense, obscuring fog of primordial gas spread throughout the Universe, started to cool down allowing electrons and protons to combine and form the first neutral atoms. Over time, areas of higher-gas density began to collapse...
29 May 2020
Cosmic bursts solve Universe's 'missing matter' problem
... with the matter content of the Universe. When scientists tallied up how much baryonic matter – matter such as protons and neutrons, the stuff stars, planets and even black holes are made of – should exist after...
29 March 2018
Rocket Owners’ Workshop Manual
... Jupiter, to the Thor, Atlas, Titan and Delta vehicles. A couple of Russian vehicles, the Soyuz and the Proton, are thrown in for good measure and there is a nine-page section on the European Ariane. The volume...
03 August 2018
Space activity at Farnborough FIA 2018
... naming competition. The rover is planned to land on Mars in the Spring of 2021, following its 2020 launch on a Russian Proton rocket. Using a Roscosmos built lander, the Exomars Rover will spend a year on the Martian surface drilling...
13 March 2020
ESA and NASA select first science instruments to send to Gateway
... the lunar surface and at its furthest, 70 000 km. The radiation investigation will continue to monitor the changes in protons, electrons and heavy ions and neutrons as they hit the measuring instruments. “Heavy neutrons are of particular...
