... of Mercury. It was therefore necessary to devise an intricate design of curved mirrors that will discard heat generated by the spacecraft, while simultaneously deflecting the heat coming from the planet. Onwards and upwards Although many issues...
... flat at 500 in any given year in the range. Therefore, we have 10 ‘serious anomaly’ debris strikes on 5,000 available spacecraft overall in this 10-year period. This gives us a ‘ballpark’ serious historical anomaly rate of one in 500 satellites per...
...several million galaxies will be imaged. Regular observations for instrument calibration and sample characterisation The Euclid spacecraft is equipped with a 1.2 m three-mirror Korsch-type telescope and two instruments, a visible imager, VIS, and the...
.... Engineer Joel Steinkraus uses sunlight to test the solar arrays on one of the Mars Cube One (MarCO) spacecraft at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Interplanetary challenges Interplanetary CubeSats, thanks to their low-cost, could perform highrisk...
... near-Earth asteroids), planetary defence efforts have not risen to the level, or the budgets, of having dedicated spacecraft missions. The most immediately relevant objects for planetary defence are asteroids of an intermediate scale, ones on the...
... missions to perform deorbiting manoeuvres, and hence self-deorbiting is often not possible. As such, ADR by means of remover spacecraft seems to be inevitable. In the net removal method a net is deployed towards the target which is captured and then...