28 July 2021
Japan successfully tests rocket engine propelled by shock waves
... waves produced by burning a mixture of methane and oxygen gases, the country’s space agency said Tuesday. Known officially as a pulse detonation engine (PDE), it was... operate for extended periods of time for use on deep-space exploration missions.
January 2022
Earth - no longer humanity’s only home
... planet with a single orbiting moon will create the feeling of home. In order to understand the in-space experience of journeying out into deep space, we must think about home the same way as those astronauts. NASA’s pathway to Mars. Preparing...
May 2022
Essential guide to the James Webb Space Telescope
... the telescope is preparing for up to 20 years of deep-space observations. JWST will peer at the hidden infrared universe,... is moving further away from everything else - the space between galaxies is stretching, increasing year on year. Combined...
September 2017
Telescope targets enigmatic deep space mystery
... total number of electrons the signal has traversed in the diffuse plasma that fills interstellar and intergalactic space, called the dispersion measure. This smearing of the radio signal due to electrons in the cosmic medium is analogous...
January 2021
Medical professionals and long-duration spaceflight
...has shown the significant value of including a health worker in the team. When it comes to long-term space missions – especially those in deep space - the inclusion of a doctor on the team should be seen as ‘normal’, not least because of the positive...
October 2015
Baikonur, Kibo and beyond: Japan’s leading role in space
... history dates back to the 1940s, and has recently been involved in a variety of interesting projects. One of those is deep space exploration. In December 2014, building on the experience gained from Hayabusa, another asteroid probe was launched from...
