October 2015
Taking AIM with ESA: proposing the first visit to a binary asteroid system
... should the need arise. ESA envisages AIM first and foremost as a technology demonstration mission. It will trial deep-space optical communications techniques, inter-satellite communications between AIM, its CubeSats and a micro lander, and proximity...
March 2018
Mapping the dark universe
...) and 25.5-27.0 GHz (K-band) frequency bands for downlink, which are different from the frequencies used for deep space missions to avoid interference. The spacecraft is autonomous for 72 hours of nominal operations and has very stringent pointing...
March 2016
Rosetta – Starting from Scratch
...to the approval of further interplanetary missions like Mars Express and Venus Express, he managed to build a network of three deep space antennas: after New Norcia, came Cebreros in Spain which was operational in 2005 and Malargue, Argentina, at the...
20 November 2015
2015 World Technology Summit held In New York City
... Bob Twiggs - Professor of Astronautical Engineering, Morehead State University The nominees in “Space – Institutional” category for 2015 are: Center for SETI Research Deep Space Industries ESA (Rosetta comet mission) Generation Orbit Moog NASA (New...
30 November 2015
“Alien Megastructure” Star's Dimming was Possibly Caused by Comets
... They studied observations made in January 2015 by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, which is optimized for observation in infrared wavelengths. Simply ...in both 2011 and 2013 before moving into deep space. When Spitzer was subsequently used in January ...
23 August 2016
NASA Makes Contact with STEREO-B Spacecraft
NASA's Deep Space Network (DSN) has locked in a carrier signal from a ... following an October 2014 loss of communications. Credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio The spacecraft had apparently lost attitude control...
