March 2017
Rosetta – outstanding climax to pioneering mission
... to determine the position and velocity of the spacecraft relative to the surface - also developed for the first time... the ‘head” of the duck-shaped nucleus. A nice, relatively flat and sunny area, where the chances of landing success were...
August 2017
Big science from small spacecraft
... Sotin. It targets very high priority science - measuring the relative abundances of neon, argon, helium, krypton and other ‘noble...delay-tolerant networking; autonomous operations; terrain relative navigation; radiation-tolerant avionics; and multi-...
September 2017
Call for Australia to head back into space
...The Department of Defence could partner with the Department of Industry, Innovation and Science to facilitate this. For a relatively small public investment in a project in which the costs would be shared, Australia could realise significant benefits...
November 2017
Roving the red planet
... of larger craters that Opportunity examined on the Meridiani plains before reaching Endeavour, were colour changes in otherwise relatively similar outcrops. These colour changes were brought about by minor variations in the amount of ferric oxides...
