11 April 2018
Revealing planet formation processes with SPHERE
... disc is alike. Installed on ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), SPHERE or the Spectro-Polarimetric High-contrast Exoplanet REsearch instrument is mainly tasked with detecting and studying new giant exoplanets orbiting nearby stars. However, the...
23 April 2018
CubeSats lead the way for new NASA missions
...Called ASTERIA, or the Arcsecond Space Telescope Enabling Research in Astrophysics, this new CubeSat satellite that has... brightness of stars, and works similar to TESS by allowing researchers to monitor the brief drop in brightness of nearby stars, ...
02 July 2018
Baby planet in dusty disc finally caught on camera
... data suggests that the planet’s atmosphere is cloudy. SPHERE or the Spectro-Polarimetric High-contrast Exoplanet REsearch instrument is a powerful planet finder designed to take images directly of exoplanets – a method known as direct imaging. Its...
06 March 2019
Growing food from thin air to feed astronauts
... Pasi Vainikka, CEO, Solar Foods. Born from a NASA space programme, and further developed by the Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd and the Lappeenranta University of Technology (LUT), last year, the company secured two...
28 March 2019
India carries out first-ever anti-satellite weapon test
... target was believed to be either the Microsat-R or the Microsat-TD satellite, both of which were built by the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO). The test was believed to have occurred yesterday, when the country’s Prime...
03 May 2019
Debris from India's ASAT test worse than predicted
... months earlier for the purpose of the exercise, sat in an orbit at 300 kilometres, said the country’s Defense Research and Development Organization (DRDO). This distance is below that used by many of the hundreds of working satellites in space...
