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Articles tagged: The Sun

  • ESA, externally occulted coronagraph, formation flying technologies, Proba-3 January 2019 Engineering six-hour solar eclipses with formation flying

    ... (but along a relative inherently safe orbit), pointing to the Sun, and acquiring again the formation before the next apogee phase (event 3). The breaking and acquisition of the formation is achieved by performing a set of impulsive manoeuvres called...

    • ESA
    • externally occulted coronagraph
    • formation flying technologies
    • Proba-3
    Authors: Agnes Mestreau-Garreau     Damien Galano     Karim Mellab     Luis F Peñin     Victor Marco Gomez    
  • 25 January 2016 Permanent N2 icecap at Pluto’s north pole may be responsible for an expanding atmosphere

    ... of 5 (± 2) % between 2013 and 2015. This trend rules out an ongoing atmospheric collapse as Pluto heads away from the Sun and is most likely due to a permanent N2 ice cap at Pluto’s north rotational pole - a result that is seen in models...

  • Gaia, Gaia second data release, Sagittarius dwarf galaxy 25 May 2020 Clashing galaxies may have triggered Solar System formation says new study

    ...as one encounter is suggested to be roughly coincident with the time of the formation of the Sun some 4.7 billion years ago. “The Sun formed at the time when stars were forming in the Milky Way because of the first passage of Sagittarius,” says Carme...

    • Gaia
    • Gaia second data release
    • Sagittarius dwarf galaxy
  • BepiColombo, iron planet, Mercury, Solar System June 2017 Bepi-Colombo will unveil Mercury’s secrets

    ... Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), had noticed that the period of the spacecraft’s orbit around the Sun, after it flew past Mercury, would be almost exactly twice the period of the planet itself, so the spacecraft and the planet would meet again and, with...

    • BepiColombo
    • iron planet
    • Mercury
    • Solar System
    Authors: Andrea Ferrero    
  • ESA, exoplanets, PLATO, Telescopes, TESS May 2018 PLATO the habitable zone explorer

    ... possible from space. Kepler stared for four years at the same patch of sky, while K2, an ingenious extension of the Kepler mission using the radiation pressure from the Sun to stabilise the satellite, is only able to carry out short-duration stares...

    • ESA
    • exoplanets
    • PLATO
    • Telescopes
    • TESS
    Authors: David Brown    
  • asteroid, Hayabusa2, JAXA, Ryugu, Spacecraft January 2019 Visiting an asteroid to find out how life began

    ... first, operations will pause as the Sun will get in the way. Solar conjunction occurs when the Sun moves between Ryugu and the Earth, interfering with communication with the spacecraft. From the end of November to the end of December, communication...

    • asteroid
    • Hayabusa2
    • JAXA
    • Ryugu
    • Spacecraft
    Authors: Elizabeth Tasker     Makoto Yoshikawa    
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