23 August 2016
NASA Makes Contact with STEREO-B Spacecraft
... flares and their associated coronal mass ejections. Credit: NASA STEREO-A and STEREO-B spacecraft (Solar and Terrestrial Relations Observatory Spacecraft) were launched in 2006. STEREO-B (STEREO Behind) was put in orbit around the sun and eventually...
10 May 2021
Sun's biggest outburst this cycle is sending solar storms to Earth and Mars
...a different post. NASA’s Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory (STEREO) mission, which consists of two identical spacecraft that were...in action. After examining coronagraph data from STEREO-A (contact with STEREO-B was lost in October 2014, eight ...
27 April 2018
First images from ExoMars in its new orbit
... spectacular image of a 40 km-long segment of the Korolev Crater topped with ice, as it tested out its Colour and Stereo Surface Imaging System (CaSSIS) after a long-distance software update. “We transmitted new software to the instrument at the...
June 2019
Solar superstorms and their effects on Earth
... results, two consecutive CMEs are shown at the position of the STEREO-A spacecraft. The left panel shows a CME at 1700 UT on...its impact have been had it hit Earth instead of the STEREO A spacecraft? Using computer models they have found that it would...
March 2016
The Use of 3D Printing for Space Applications
... for additive manufacturing of large structures, and polymers are typically processed via Selective Laser Sintering (SLS), stereo-lithography (also used on ceramics) or Fused Deposition Modelling (FDM). Today, AM is a standard manufacturing process...
March 2016
Searching for water in the Solar System
...surface materials due to the compaction of sediments deposited by water. The region was imaged by the High Resolution Stereo Camera on Mars Express on 20 July 2015. At the core of this question is the abundance of volatile-rich planetesimals migrated...
