March 2015
On-orbit satellite servicing, insurance and lessons of Palapa B2 and Westar 6
...are carefully tailored to align with the overall risk management approach of the satellite owner. Insurers combine complex technical understanding with contract analysis, risk evaluation, insurance modelling and claim negotiation. It is a challenging...
March 2015
JAXA’s challenge to climate change
... Global Satellite Map on Precipitation (GSMaP) every hour by combining data from more than 13 satellites, including the GPM core...world. GSMaP can also be used to predict floods when combined with river basin terrain models. GSMaP data are calibrated ...
October 2015
Finding Earth-like worlds: the tale of how Kepler-452b was discovered
...It was exactly the kind of planet and star combination that we had hoped Kepler would find, but which... that an eclipsing binary or a star with a giant transiting planet could combine with the foreground star’s light to cause a transit-like feature. He...
October 2015
Taking AIM with ESA: proposing the first visit to a binary asteroid system
...and scientific studies. Four spacecraft in one A combination of visual and thermal imagers will survey the ...asteroid science at a fundamental level. In recent years the combination of in-situ missions, ground-based observations, meteorite analysis and...
October 2015
Copernicus, ESA’s most ambitious Earth Observation programme
... Metop-A as the EUMETSAT prime operational polar-orbiting satellite, following the end of its commissioning period. The combination of instruments onboard Metop satellites has remote sensing capabilities to observe the Earth during day- and night...
October 2015
Eating in space: from Michelin-starred chefs to self-sufficiency
...chefs cook up space recipes, 3D printers are being harnessed to combine raw ingredients and we know a lot more about the psychology... and cubes, or even print their food from pre-selected combinations of preserved goo, the future of food in space lies ...
