March 2021
Data may be the new oil... but its real value is in actionable information
... Marble’ - photographed by the Apollo astronauts in orbit around the Moon - might be, or the ‘Pale Blue Dot’ imaged by Voyager 1 six billion kilometres from Earth, these images cannot hope to capture the complexity of the physical and...
May 2024
Out of this world – NASA’s textile technicians and innovations for space voyages
Getting safely into space and back is about a lot more than engineering, computer systems, mathematics and physics. The humble craft of sewing is also an essential component of every mission. A spacecraft and its crew cannot survive in space without...
29 July 2015
Greetings to aliens: NASA shares 1977 Voyager Golden Record on SoundCloud
... never find out whether or not these aural snapshots of Earth, traveling across the vast reaches of space on Voyager probes, will ever be picked up by extra-terrestrials, should they be out there. We certainly can’t guarantee that any...
February 2016
Nuclear Flashlamps in Space
... of about 103 AU. If we assume that focusing of the Voyager radio signal increases its efficiency by a factor of around 100,...at a million times the range at which we currently detect Voyager 2. This translates to about 2300 light years, a range...
January 2022
Revealing the magnetic universe
...magnetic fields and produces protective magnetic bubbles. The Voyager missions have given us a unique perspective on ... from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. Galactic magnetic structure The Voyager missions have given us a unique perspective on the role ...
17 June 2020
NASA wants to visit Neptune’s weird moon Triton
...spacecraft to get close to Neptune and its moons since the Voyager 2 spacecraft flew by three decades ago; an encounter that...being forced through thick, icy crusts – images returned by Voyager 2 showed two further peculiar traits not expected from an ...
