October 2024
Spaceport America’s road to the future
...world installing, maintaining, and marketing specialised wind radar systems. His innovative designs support ... networks, atmospheric research, pollution studies, and shipboard-based wind measurements. Users include research and defence agencies such as...
April 2025
Catapult to orbit - will David finally defeat Goliath?
... the same principle that allows a sailing vessel to travel many times the speed of the wind by moving at an angle to the wind”. A “baseline space launch accelerator” would be around 10 kilometres in length Although Longshot considered setting up the...
19 October 2016
Success for TGO orbit insertion and its looking good for Schiaparelli too
... be used to measure local weather conditions at the landing site, such as humidity, temperature, dust opacity, pressure, wind speed, and wind direction. Meanwhile, the Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO), if confirmed to be in the right orbit, will now complete...
13 February 2019
Magnetopause makes Earth one enormous drum
...the abrupt boundary between Earth’s magnetic field and the solar wind – the magnetopause – acted much like the top of a... helps preserve our planet from the harmful radiation of the solar wind. Understanding all that is does and how it behaves will not...
19 July 2019
The day humanity walked on the Moon
... to a different position not favourable to its design in order to still receive the signal. If that wasn’t difficult enough, winds of 60 miles an hour kicked in buffeting the giant Parkes dish around like a giant umbrella about to be sucked up into...
18 November 2019
First global geological map of Titan unveiled
...that given the active seasonal weather patterns found on Titan including wind and rainfall, the chances are these features are still in ... of methane, whereas the arid equatorial climate keeps wind-shaped dunes intact,” say Lopes and colleagues. “The...
