14 August 2016
Sixth successful landing for Space X rocket
... off and it also requires a lot of speed. The first stage, which incorporates nine Merlin engines and aluminum-lithium alloy tanks containing liquid oxygen and rocket fuel, would be subject to extreme velocities and re-entry...
27 December 2019
Mars 2020 aeroshell’s impressive pedigree
...’s, and matches its 4.5 metre girth for a planetary mission record, Lockheed Martin has actually strengthened the aluminum-honeycomb-supported structure in places, partly to account for a rover that’s 150 kilograms heavier, said Tice, in an interview...
28 August 2020
Clumps of bacteria could survive interplanetary journey, new study says
...space mission Tanpopo (which means dandelion in Japanese), the team strapped samples of different bacterial thicknesses in aluminum plate wells in exposure panels attached to the outside of the International Space Station (ISS). The dried Deinococcus...
20 September 2021
Best time for a human Mars mission? During a solar maximum, new study says
... back is during the decaying phase of solar activity. For a mission to last four years, average shielding of 10 centimetres of aluminum would be needed so that the allowed radiation risk limit would not be exceeded. “This study shows that...
08 December 2021
Iron might be key for finding life on other worlds, new study says
... layers of Earth, four elements alone make up almost 90 percent of the Earth's uppermost portion, or crust; oxygen, silicon, aluminum and iron. Iron can also be found on all of our terrestrial neighbours in varying amounts. Mercury’s core for...
24 January 2022
Solar sail mission will intercept and study small asteroid
A shoe box-sized CubeSat called NEA Scout will use a thin, aluminum-coated solar sail about the size of a tennis court to propel it towards the smallest asteroid ever to be studied by a ...
