July 2020
Key technologies for space exploration
...type of multi-mode engine manoeuvring thruster, called the VORTEX® engine, that delivers discrete thrust levels ‘on-demand’ using... amounts of thrust. In all cases, the thruster employs VORTEX injectors to cool not only the combustion chamber but the ...
17 September 2018
Newly discovered vortex on Saturn could be part of a huge towering structure
... indicative that the lower-altitude hexagon is influencing what happens up above. “The edges of this newly-found vortex appear to be hexagonal, precisely matching a famous and bizarre hexagonal cloud pattern we see deeper down in Saturn’s atmosphere...
October 2017
Cassini observations open up Saturn’s atmosphere
...? It may be some time before we have the answers. Equatorial heartbeat We’re still awaiting the formation of a hot, stratospheric vortex above Saturn’s northern summer pole – hopefully Cassini lasted long enough to see it The more we study Saturn...
July 2021
Nitrous oxide – a green propellant for commercial space exploration
... hot exhausts ignited Plexiglas fuel. The combustion propagated from outside towards the motor centre forming vortex flow. In the picture, the exhaust plume with shock diamonds is seen. The performance of nitrous oxide in resistojets...
15 June 2017
Black hole 'bath' confirms wave phenomena
... plane waves propagating on the surface of water were being amplified as much as 20 percent after being scattered by a draining vortex that was 6.25 centimetre deep fluid. Perhaps not quite on the scale of a black hole, but the same...
24 February 2020
First results from InSight reveal a seismically active Mars
..., or dust devils as they are more commonly known, kick in. Surprisingly, despite having the largest recorded Martian vortex activity and dust-devil tracks close to the lander, no visible dust devils have been seen, says...
