January 2018
SLS ushers transformation of deep space exploration
... need for payload elements such as antennas to be folded for launch and then deployed in space, thus decreasing spacecraft complexity and risk. Reducing transit time by enabling a direct trajectory without gravitational assists reduces mission risk...
29 April 2016
SpaceX Announces Plans for Mars Mission.
... to the surface. Dragon's SuperDraco thruster is key to allowing it to land on Marsh. They system would be used to slow the spacecraft's descent through the Martian atmosphere and to land on the surface. SpaceX and NASA signed an amended agreement...
August 2016
Long-term spaceflight and microbiological safety issues
...) and ‘indirect influence’ - growth on contaminated materials, with abjection of organic acids and other by-products. The longer spacecraft operate the more bacteria and microscopic fungi appear A good example of the latter is the damage to the...
June 2017
Automated or human-operated systems?
...for example. The JPL employee redesigns the entire mission of the Hermes spacecraft using a flyby of Earth to return to Mars in a much ...European Space Operations Centre (ESOC) engineers control spacecraft in orbit, manage the global tracking station ...
September 2017
Europe needs facility to handle extra-terrestrial space material
... of any particles) and on the rigorous selection of materials allowed to be in contact with the samples. NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft during its preparation for encapsulation in its payload fairing prior to launch in September 2016. It is the first...
October 2017
Tracking air pollution and monitoring climate change
...the European Space Agency (ESA). The ‘P’ in the spacecraft’s name stands for Precursor and references the fact that ...between the SCHIAMACHY instrument of the now-defunct European Envisat spacecraft and the Sentinel-5 instrument, which will be part of...
