December 2014
Finding NEO
.... Another proposed space-based survey, Sentinel, would place a 0.5-metre telescope into an orbit similar to that of Venus. Sentinel is anticipated to be capable of detecting 90 per cent of NEOs larger than 140m in about seven to 10 years of operation...
March 2016
Why We Need Space Artists
...These were followed in the seventies by images and data from Mars, Venus, and later even Jupiter, and in the eighties of Saturn, ... seas and lakes not of water but of liquid hydrocarbons. Venus was long known to possess a dense, cloudy atmosphere which...
November 2016
Rosetta - an eventful cruise phase
... Rosetta mission, but I had to leave the spacecraft operations manager role. Fortunately at this time Venus Express had reached a stable operations phase at Venus, and we decided to call back Andrea Accomazzo, who took my former position as Rosetta...
June 2017
Bepi-Colombo will unveil Mercury’s secrets
...have flown by Mercury only once, briefly, after having passed by Venus. However, an Italian scientist named Giuseppe Colombo, who at the ...six-year cruise, that will see the spacecraft fly by Venus twice and Mercury six times before it settles into the...
July 2018
The rise of interplanetary CubeSats
... include the Soviet Union’s Vega 1 and 2 which were launched in 1984 to target Venus and Halley’s Comet. The Vega spacecraft, while en route to Venus deployed a pair of landers in addition to a pair of balloon aerobots that circled the planet...
August 2018
Measuring the pulse of Mars
...for billions of years - that doesn’t happen on Earth. Venus for example has been entirely resurfaced - we don’t see four... and half billion years of volcanoes in the same spot on Venus. Some sort of process occurred that stopped it from happening there...
