March 2017
Rosetta – outstanding climax to pioneering mission
... procedures, hiring and training the newcomers in the flight control team. Never before in the history of space exploration had a space probe reached a comet and tried to orbit around it. The flight dynamics and overall flight operations challenges...
October 2018
Looking for life on Enceladus with IceMole
... lies beneath. The search for life in the solar system has been one of the guiding goals of space exploration since its very conception. Enceladus, a small icy moon of Saturn, is currently seen as one of the prime candidates...
04 May 2017
GLEX 2017 Technical Programme
... Objective and Infrastructure of Space Exploration Space Laboratory, Space Station and Space Exploration Lunar Exploration Exploration of Near Earth Asteroids Mars Exploration Exploration of Other Destination Entering into Space and New Energy and...
February 2019
A universal spaceship design concept
Currently, the field of crewed space exploration is characterised by a small number of nations ... risks as far as possible. With plans for longer missions for the exploration of Mars, asteroids or other objects, the existing solutions arguably fail to...
July 2019
A reluctant American hero
... personalities involved, we have been able to learn more about Armstrong the man and his unique contribution to space exploration. The six Apollo Moon landing missions changed the world in many ways – raising and influencing technical...
July 2020
Investigations into plant growth on the Moon
...Why grow anything on the Moon? Because the Moon is important in the ‘stepping-stone approach’ to future human space exploration missions beyond Earth, which will ultimately need to be self-sufficient. The use of cotton in clothing is well established...
