December 2014
Asteroid Redirect Mission: preparing for Mars in deep space
... support, extra-vehicular activity (EVA) and rendezvous, docking and integrated vehicle attitude control, including for solar alignment and thermal management, in a deep space environment.4 ARM will provide a first opportunity for integrated human...
November 2019
The economic promise of space
... feasibility of, and the growing economic case for, Solar Power Satellites (SPS). Recent studies by NASA, ...missing component is combined government/private industry commitment. Space solar power is also scalable to levels required to power entire...
05 July 2016
Success for JUNO!
... kilograms of fuel as it did so. Juno is the farthest solar powered spacecraft from Earth and soon after the burn was completed,...when you’re talking about the single biggest planetary body in the solar system is a really good thing. There is a lot to ...
31 August 2020
"Dry" meteorites unlock the origin of Earth's water
...icy comets or asteroids which originated in the outer Solar System delivered the vast amounts of water engulfing our ...type of meteorite that is composed of material from the inner solar system. These meteorites are known as enstatite chondrite and on ...
18 December 2020
Experiment to dim sunlight with chalk dust under review
..., would launch from the Esrange Space Center in Kiruna, Sweden in June 2021, if approved by an independent Advisory Committee. Solar engineering is the idea that airborne particles can help mitigate the affects of a warming planet by reducing the...
05 June 2020
Exciting exoplanet find around sun-like star
.... This is what a team led by the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research in Göttingen have now found. Called KOI-456.0, the ...less-than-double the size of the Earth planet and its solar type host star that make it so special and familiar,” ...
