April 2025
Spacecraft anomalies and insurance losses
... classes of spacecraft, for example communications satellites in geostationary orbit (GEO) or commercial Earth observation satellites in sun-synchronous orbit (SSO). However, it is less common where there is a lot of in-orbit redundancy: for example...
20 September 2018
TESS finds its first exoplanet – a super-Earth 60 light years away
... revealed the location of its first find - a super-Earth exoplanet around a younger, but bigger version of our sun. Located in the constellation of Mensa, this yellow sub giant star known as Pi Mensae (or HD39091), can be seen with...
17 October 2018
Cosmic titan found lurking in the early Universe
A gigantic galaxy proto-supercluster with a mass more than one million billion times that of the Sun, has been found by astronomers just two billion years after the Big Bang. Its overwhelming size ...
09 November 2018
Leftover gas from the Sun's birth created Earth's water
We call our planet Earth, and yet it is one of the most water-logged bodies in our Solar System. But where did it all come from? It has long been assumed that the molecule which sustains life as we know it, collected in substantial volumes to make ...
20 September 2021
Best time for a human Mars mission? During a solar maximum, new study says
... scientists, the best time to head to Mars is when the rate of energetic solar particles streaming from the Sun are the highest; I,e at a solar maximum. That might seem counterintuitive, but say the team headed by Dr. Mikhail...
13 March 2020
ESA and NASA select first science instruments to send to Gateway
... where and how these particles form, to protect astronauts.” NASA’s first investigation to fly aboard the Gateway is a Sun-oriented space weather experiment to observe solar particles and solar wind. These phenomena are unpredictable and...
