October 2017
Exploring Jupiter’s icy moons
... life?’ The JUICE payload consists of 10 state-of-the-art instruments plus one experiment that uses the spacecraft telecommunication system with ground-based telescopes. This payload, summarised in Table 1, is capable of addressing all of the mission...
March 2018
Mapping the dark universe
...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...
July 2018
The rise of interplanetary CubeSats
.... 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...
October 2018
Radiation study paves way for safe deep space exploration
...amplified as missions get longer, especially when humans go to Mars in coming decades. The next time a human-rated spacecraft departs LEO en route to the Moon, it will carry a payload specifically focused on protecting astronauts from space radiation...
