March 2015
Shipping, the environment and satellite AIS
... to other ship registry information allowing the authorities to confirm the ship is in fact the ship it claims to be. The voyage data can be used to cross check the position and course over ground to confirm that the ship...
March 2016
Space for art
...readers the wonderful relationship between science and art. NASA’s Voyager mission took advantage of a once-every-175-year alignment... gravity to send them on to the next destination. Voyager set the stage for such ambitious orbiter missions as Galileo...
June 2020
Titan’s evolving atmosphere
..., due to Titan’s orbital inclination of 27 degress it has seasons that last about 7.5 years. Thanks to the Pioneer 11 and Voyager flybys, scientists already knew before the European Space Agency’s Huygens probe descended to its surface in January...
April 2026
Spaceflight and the radiation problem
... there much faster than this. If we could reduce the outward voyage from six months to six weeks, we’d see a 75 percent ... far as Mars only to go into kidney failure during the voyage home. Evidence of the impact of radiation on the human kidney ...
March 2016
Multi-planet Civilizations in Popular Culture
...), the process of safely relocating an entire planet’s population is stated to be as long as three years. And although the starship Voyager has the necessary technology to ‘fix’ the planet’s nuclear apocalypse, the intense yearning of some among the...
January 2017
New oceans beckon for solar sail technology
...System travelling three to five times faster than the Voyager spacecraft, allowing rapid scientific study of nearby interstellar ... for years and is of high interest to space science. The Voyager 1 spacecraft, launched in 1977, is now about 137 AU from...
