January 2017
New oceans beckon for solar sail technology
...appropriate for target environments can be developed. The NEA Scout, scheduled to launch in 2018, will use its solar sail propulsion system to send the spacecraft to flyby asteroid 1991VG and conduct reconnaissance of it (Figure 2). Figure 2 - Artist...
June 2019
Solar superstorms and their effects on Earth
... activity cover such a short period of time, we have to turn to indirect measures or ‘proxies’ of solar activity from the past. The largest solar events - CMEs, solar flares and energetic particle events - generally come together. This means that...
31 January 2020
First images of new solar telescope produces most detailed images of the Sun
... work by a large team devoted to designing and building a premier solar research observatory, we are close to the finish line. I'm extremely ... propagate into the solar system where the Parker Solar Probe and Solar Orbiter missions will measure...
10 February 2020
ESA's Solar Orbiter probe blasts off to face the Sun
... – in which our planet resides.” We are all Solar Orbiters Solar Orbiter will be one of two complementary spacecraft studying the... its extended atmosphere,” says Holly Gilbert, NASA Solar Orbiter Project Scientist. “The powerful combination of ...
February 2016
Searching for water in the Solar System
... July 2015. At the core of this question is the abundance of volatile-rich planetesimals migrated from the outer Solar System (ie, beyond Jupiter). Observations of increasing abundance of C-type asteroids across the main belt inferred from telescopic...
April 2020
Plasma Clipper - opening the age of sail, in space travel
... travels even faster outside of the plane and you only need to be able to utilise some of it to go anywhere in the solar system in an outward direction. Plasma magnetic sail based on rotating magnetic field generating plasma currents. Two polyphase...
