01 August 2019
Apollo’s Muse; the Moon in the age of photography
... this highly illustrated volume is published by The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. This fact alone gives a firm indication of...not like all they see here, but that is the nature of art! The book comes complete with a list of works in the ...
31 January 2020
First images of new solar telescope produces most detailed images of the Sun
... unparalleled clarity. The telescope also uses state-of-the-art adaptive optics to compensate for blurring created by Earth...Island of Maui, Hawaii, will provide a state-of-the-art scientific and educational resource for Hawaiians and the entire global...
December 2014
Asteroid Redirect Mission: preparing for Mars in deep space
...masses to geosynchronous Earth orbits. NASA’s Space Technology Mission Directorate has been advancing the state-of-the-art SEP technologies resulting in several big accomplishments this year. Recent ground demonstrations of advanced solar arrays, ion...
June 2015
Promoting growth at geostationary orbit with a one-stop-shop
... Space Agency’s Advanced Research In Telecommunications Systems (ARTES) programme, we developed the satellite’s structure and... watts, yet we needed something that was 5 kilowatts. ARTES allowed us to develop & qualify both because these were the...
September 2016
Life in the extremes: confessions of an astrobiologist
...university, especially if I were to study space-related science in the UK or USA. Maybe I would have ended up studying history of art and diplomacy had it not been for extremophiles - organisms that live in extreme environments. What attracted me the...
September 2017
Europe needs facility to handle extra-terrestrial space material
... set the basics for high-quality research to be conducted afterwards (i.e., outside of the facility, in state-of-the-art, dedicated laboratories). The next step is the Preliminary Examination (PE) phase, in which further analyses are conducted on the...
