15 May 2020
An unexpected meeting could see Solar Orbiter study Comet ATLAS
...both the craft and comet. Packed on board Solar Orbiter is a Solar Wind Plasma Analyzer (SWA). This instrument will be...the American Astronomical Society. All eyes will now be on Solar Orbiter and if the spacecraft’s instruments do detect material from...
07 December 2020
New Gaia data measures Solar System's acceleration
... measured by Gaia shows a close agreement with theoretical expectations and provides important information on the motion of the Solar System in the gravitational field of our galaxy." Additional papers published with the data release include a new...
18 October 2021
NASA's Lucy mission launches, encounters problem with solar panel
... asteroids. But, in order to assure that there is enough energy to power the spacecraft throughout the mission, the solar panels will need to deploy flawlessly, said Principal Investigator Hal Levison of the Southwest Institute in Boulder, Colorado...
30 October 2019
Solar Orbiter ready for launch transfer
... to Cape Canaveral in Florida, USA, in preparations for launch. Solar Orbiter will perform a close-up study of our Sun and the ... it towards the innermost regions of the Solar System. At the same time, Solar Orbiter will acquire in situ data and ...
29 April 2020
NASA's new solar sail system to be tested on-board NanoAvionics' satellite
...model can be used for testing payload integration and other mechanical tests, such as the deployment of solar sails. In 2018 AST acquired a controlling interest in NanoAvionics as part of its strategy to establish manufacturing capabilities in Europe...
25 January 2017
"Extinct" meteorite challenges our understanding of how the solar system formed
...our current understanding of the history and development of the solar system, due to the rare and unknown minerals contained ...unknown but of fundamental importance in the history of the solar system occurred nearly 500 million years ago to change the ...
