06 December 2019
Parker Solar Probe reveals major new insights on the Sun
... the mission ends. Next year, the probe will have a visitor as it is joined by the European Space Agency’s Solar Orbiter, a mission which aims to study the Sun up close by taking high-resolution images of the Sun's poles for...
31 January 2020
First images of new solar telescope produces most detailed images of the Sun
... sun and the magnetic processes that occur in them. These processes propagate into the solar system where the Parker Solar Probe and Solar Orbiter missions will measure their consequences. Altogether, they constitute a genuinely multi-messenger...
04 July 2016
ROOM attends the UK National Astronomy Meeting
...projects currently in development, such as Athena, Euclid and Solar Orbiter would still benefit from their involvement. However, Dr ...and contributions to DKIST (The Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope), DESI (The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument...
01 January 2020
What has been in 2019 and what is to come in 2020!
... from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on 5 February. The mission of the Solar Orbiter is complementary to the Parker Solar Probe which is already in orbit and will make the third Venus flyby (of seven) on 11 July this year as it continues...
January 2019
Materials make the space mission
... the Jupiter system at extremely low temperatures (even colder than -200 C at Jupiter arrival, and during solar eclipses). Contrarily, Solar Orbiter will perform in-situ and direct remote sensing measurements of the Sun at a closer distance than ever...
March 2015
Dawn of ion propulsion
... was, of course, the objective of the long flight that started in the same solar orbit as Earth, and that is how Dawn managed to slip into orbit around Vesta. While simply flying by it would have been far easier, matching...
