December 2014
MAVEN and the evolution of Mars
... Physics (LASP), University of Colorado, and then Deputy Principal Investigator Robert P. Lin, at the Space Sciences Laboratory (SSL), University of California, Berkeley, a successful bid for the mission was realised. A launch date of 2013 was ...
December 2014
Ready for Mars? From Mars-500 to zero-gravity medical issues
...fully the medical consequences of living in space and undertaking flights to deep space and Mars. The initial impact of zero... the 2011–12 transit flight of the Mars Science Laboratory probe via the unshielded radiation assessment detector experiment...
21 June 2019
ESA's new mission to intercept a comet
... missions in July 2018, 23 pitches were submitted by the space science community, with six teams subsequently invited to provide more detailed ... Jones (UCL Mullard Space Science Laboratory, UK) and Colin Snodgrass (University of Edinburgh, UK).
15 May 2020
An unexpected meeting could see Solar Orbiter study Comet ATLAS
... may be crossed on 2020 June 6,” write a trio of scientists, Geraint Jones, Qasim Afghan and Oliver Price, at Mullard Space Science Laboratory, University College London, who have calculated the positions of both the craft and comet. Packed on board...
October 2020
Space 2069 - back to the Moon, to Mars and beyond
...He later carried out research at University College London’s Mullard Space Science Laboratory. Already a regular science writer and commentator in the UK media he became the BBC’s Science Correspondent in 1988 working mostly in radio. He later became...
