10 February 2020
ESA's Solar Orbiter probe blasts off to face the Sun
... their instruments’ operations according to the most recent observations of the Sun surface.” Solar Orbiter will use a combination of 10 in situ and remote-sensing instruments to observe the turbulent solar surface, the Sun’s hot outer atmosphere...
December 2014
MAVEN and the evolution of Mars
...potential for future long-term human presence. These, and a combination of adventure, inspiration and politics, have led to the current .... They will help constrain assumptions regarding how combinations of circumstances, such as surface liquid water,...
October 2015
From the kitchen… to the stars?
... firing tests of the KVD1 steering engine block, also using natural gas instead of hydrogen. This design combined a deflector that could move in two planes to an angle of ± 39.5°, at a thrust of 200 kgf and a chamber pressure of 40 kg/cm2; start...
August 2016
Our changing world and the mounting risk of a calamitous solar storm
...of this study would be to devise an architecture of a network of a number of these structures that could be combined to create an effective solar shield system. A combination of scores of these electro-magnetic force fields that could slow and divert...
January 2017
Mini space station for mice to study effects of reproduction in reduced gravity
... subsystem performance and operations required for human exploration. MICEHAB is unique because its concept addresses the combined effects of long duration, partial gravity, and autonomous/robotic operations simultaneously. MICEHAB elements There are...
August 2018
Exoplanet census promises radical discoveries
... by a close gravitational interaction with a larger planet or star in systems with more than one host star. The combination of the WFIRST exoplanet microlensing survey and Kepler’s transit survey will provide a complete statistical census of planets...
