21 June 2016
China Looks for Space Station Collaboration through the U.N.
Wu Ping, deputy director of the China Manned Space Agency, addressed the U.N. Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space on ... to take part in, and benefit from, the utilization of China’s space station,” said CMSA Deputy Director General Wu Ping.
21 September 2016
China's first space lab is heading for a crash landing
...-9 and Shenzhou-10 spacecraft and in a statement by Wu Ping, deputy director of the manned space engineering office, the ...most parts of the space lab will burn up during falling," said Ping. She further added that it was unlikely to cause damage to ...
September 2017
Science searches for cosmic company
...than for photomultiplier instruments, being able to look everywhere would at least open our investigations to intermittent ‘pings’. Such signals might be sent by extraterrestrials wishing to learn if anything of interest has developed on Earth. After...
April 2019
On-board propulsion set to drive the smallsat revolution
... RF electric field. The ions, which have a much larger mass than the electrons (think wrecking ball vs. ping-pong ball), cannot respond to the rapidly oscillating electric field and ‘see’ a time-averaged constant field...
August 2019
Lessons from the Sun
... scattering between the converging solar wind structures, gaining energy with each bounce.. An interplanetary game of particle ping-pong drove SEPs into Earth’s high-latitude atmosphere, creating nuclear interactions whose by-products were measured...
25 January 2017
"Extinct" meteorite challenges our understanding of how the solar system formed
... known as Österplana 065, was found by professor Birger Schmitz at Lund University in Sweden in a quarry outside of Lidköping. It was given the label "extinct" because it’s unusual mineralogy, which is different from all known groups of meteorites...
