22 December 2017
Where is NASA going next?
... In situ Composition Investigations (VICI). ELSAH will receive funds to develop cost-effective techniques that limit spacecraft contamination and thereby enable life detection measurements on cost-capped missions, while the VICI mission concept will...
17 April 2019
Proxima Centauri may host a second exoplanet, but its first might not be there
... the least. Could the signals that Del Sordo and Damasso saw in their search for Proxima c be contamination due to a flaring star or were they solely those of a transiting exoplanet? It should be noted that studies by both Del...
07 February 2020
ESA's Solar Orbiter mission set to launch on 10 February
...’. “The booms are deployed before all thrusters can be fired on the spacecraft, as some thrusters can potentially contaminate the instruments onboard,” explains Andrea Accomazzo, Flight Director for the mission. “The sooner all thrusters...
11 May 2020
Martian brines likely to be present, just not habitable says new study
... of the stable brines could be targets for future Martian exploration, more so now since the risk of biological contamination from Earth is negligible, say the team.
03 June 2020
New study challenges the assumption that the Universe doesn't spin
... about the large-scale structure of the Universe is a big deal, but Shamir seems confident that no error or contamination of the data is apparent because of the "unique, complex and consistent patterns," of the galaxies. "We have two different...
16 December 2020
Hayabusa2 delivers first-ever gas sample from an asteroid
... up, say the JAXA team. When coupled with finding a container sealed with aluminium as designed – a feature to prevent contamination from Earth’s atmosphere – the team are in no doubt that the gas is from Ryugu. Along with the...
