January 2017
New oceans beckon for solar sail technology
... force is acting perpendicular to the plane in which you are moving then your orbital inclination relative to the Sun will change. This capability is significant due to the equivalent propulsion system that would be required to achieve an inclination...
January 2019
Engineering six-hour solar eclipses with formation flying
... and sensitivity to fully understand these phenomena. As the Sun is a million times brighter than its surrounding corona in...4 to event 6) the formation flying demonstration manoeuvres and Sun corona observation are performed for a total of six hours ...
07 February 2020
ESA's Solar Orbiter mission set to launch on 10 February
...Solar Orbiter’s mission objective is to collect data on the Sun’s turbulent solar surface, its hot outer atmosphere and changes ...resolution, plus many remote-sensing instruments to image the Sun in various wavelengths. "There are dozens if not ...
May 2018
PLATO the habitable zone explorer
...planets in the habitable zone of stars like the Sun, and to provide information necessary for determining their habitability...like PLATO) you’re looking for small, rocky planets around Sun-like stars because transits of this nature typically cause the ...
January 2019
Visiting an asteroid to find out how life began
...material that has not been weathered by radiation from the Sun or suffered impacts from meteorites Within weeks, Hayabusa2 moved ...material that has not been weathered by radiation from the Sun or suffered impacts from meteorites. This is important for...
June 2017
Bepi-Colombo will unveil Mercury’s secrets
... receive a significant amount of dangerous radiation from the Sun thus making conditions difficult for biological life to develop ...will receive significant amounts of heat flux from either the Sun of Mercury. It was therefore necessary to devise an ...
