April 2018
Developing Mars
...flights, which have a further need for shielding against cosmic rays, would also benefit from Omaha Trail systems at Deimos. ...An Omaha Field over Omaha Crater - 500 MeV cosmic ray protons deflected by the magnetostatic Omaha Field. Vertically-injected...
August 2018
Exoplanet census promises radical discoveries
... serves as a source of light, and then it bends light rays resulting in two images. The images grow in size as the source... from the background star, resulting in two images due to light rays that travel on either side of the foreground host (or lens) ...
January 2020
Collaborating to harness space innovation in healthcare
...wafers used previously in ion thrusters for spacecraft, and x-ray optics deployed on star-mapping spacecraft, such as ESA’s... more efficient use of funds, and better patient outcomes. X-ray optics deployed on star-mapping spacecraft, such as ESA’s XMM ...
January 2020
Old rocks, new tricks - a lunar link to modern volcanology
... needs to be analysed, and normally this means getting inside samples by cutting, grinding and polishing. Thanks to advances in 3D X-ray imaging, measuring chemical zonation inside olivine from Moon rocks can now be conducted non-destructively. This...
April 2026
Spaceflight and the radiation problem
... Allen radiation belts. Earth’s magnetic field and atmosphere protect us from the constant bombardment of galactic cosmic rays – energetic particles that travel at close to the speed of light and penetrate the human body. An astronaut on a mission...
August 2018
AI offers new approach to space situational awareness
... travelling luggage. The objective is to identify all the possible variations of what a piece of luggage can contain from X-ray images, and then infer when there is something suspicious, such as firearms or contraband, without knowing anything about...
