January 2021
Time to change our relationship with space?
... societal impact on our night sky. Artist’s impression of the Rosetta orbiter deploying the Philae lander to comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko. Rosetta was the first spacecraft to orbit a cometary nucleus and it scored another historic first when its...
June 2017
Automated or human-operated systems?
... based operations using Automated-Human-Robot-System. ESA’s Rosetta showing the deployment of the Philae lander to comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko. Indeed, humans should always be allowed to decide and act when faced with the unplanned, the unknown...
February 2019
Simulating lunar and martian regolith in the laboratory
... for future missions, these surface regoliths have to be simulated in the lab. Close up image of Comet 67P/Churyumov– Gerasimenko by Philae’s lander imaging system on ESA’s Rosetta spacecraft. Recreating the surface of Mars Simulating lunar and...
June 2020
Titan’s evolving atmosphere
... to the dinitrogen-filled skies that we see today. However, recent data from the Rosetta mission to the comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, on its isotopic and noble gas constraints, suggests that a large abundance of nitrogen-bearing complex cometary...
13 March 2015
ESA re-entry vehicle could pave way for reusable launcher
... is among the best worldwide, with the ATV (space station supply ship) and the Rosetta mission (to comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko). “We believe the return capability is running behind,” Tumino said. “We never closed the loop on the capability...
