September 2023
Getting a grip on space sustainability and space debris
...to avoid the same scenario in Earth orbit. The space environment is fragile, we need to preserve it. About the interviewee Ray Fielding, a materials engineer by training, has spent over 20 years delivering and leading cutting edge technology projects...
March 2018
Exploring the extreme universe
... possible to study photons with infrared, ultraviolet, X-ray and gamma-ray wavelengths in the wake of the rocket era, ...mission dedicated to the study of the non-thermal Universe in the gamma-ray photon energy range from 0.3 MeV to 3 GeV (six to nine...
July 2017
Hunting for neutrinos in the ice of Antarctica
...neutrinos are linked to ultra-high energy cosmic rays and these rays are the most energetically charged particles known ... been postulated that a fraction of these charged cosmic rays will interact with the cosmic microwave background, the ubiquitous...
August 2019
Lessons from the Sun
... High Frequency (HF) radio signals blocked. Ground-based monitors revealed that other cosmic messengers (galactic cosmic rays) were not arriving as expected and observers realised that a very large interplanetary structure capable of deflecting them...
September 2026
Spacecraft protection and resilience - a convergent approach
... even affects the most advanced hardware we are starting to field. Controlled experiments show that a single cosmic ray can induce correlated errors across many superconducting qubits at once, creating what researchers have described as ‘catastrophic...
11 January 2021
Strange star unlike any seen before, scientists say
...anything seen before. Not only is it a new kind of x-ray source, the star has record breaking wind speeds and is mostly...captured matter falls onto the surface of the white dwarf, x-rays are generated as the accelerating gas heats up to several million...
