05 June 2020
Exciting exoplanet find around sun-like star
... distance range around a star where liquid water might pool on the surface of an orbiting planet. “KOI-456.01 is relatively large compared to many other planets that are considered potentially habitable. But it’s the combination of this less...
December 2014
Asteroid Redirect Mission: preparing for Mars in deep space
... independently of Earth. Crewed space missions over the last four decades have been either relatively short (lasting a few days or weeks) or relatively close to Earth, such as in the low-Earth orbit (LEO) of the International Space Station...
June 2015
Great expectations: launch markets, SpaceX, China, and other new players
... Launch Services (ILS), ULA, Sea Launch and Land Launch, all of which were oriented towards launching relatively large satellites to geostationary orbit. Meanwhile, Eurockot and Kosmotras specialized in launching light, low-orbit apparatuses on this...
June 2015
Innovation at escape velocity: from NASA’s Apollo to SpaceX
... needed in order to explore and develop space. However, the overall economic activity associated with spinoff efforts is relatively small, likely because the technologies in question were developed for government needs and not in response to market...
October 2015
Finding Earth-like worlds: the tale of how Kepler-452b was discovered
...I contacted several astronomers I know to do follow-up observations, using relatively small to mid-size telescopes to take spectra of the star to... transit-like feature. He got back to me relatively quickly and said it’s completely clean. He said there...
October 2015
From NEOs to real action: testing asteroid impact scenarios
... of an impact event. Two disaster management exercises took place relatively recently: the first in April 2013 and the second in ...safe distance away from the risk corridor while still within relatively easy reach of the areas likely to be affected. ...
