19 September 2016
New research challenges ideas on how the Earth was made
... of the chemical element neodymium, have in the past been used to corroborate the hypothesis that Earth underwent a differentiation process within the first 30 million years of its history. Now, however, a new study by cosmochemist Audrey Bouvier...
November 2017
Managing air and space traffic from orbit
... ADS-B As we move towards aerospace activities with aircraft and spaceships merging into one, their existing differentiation is becoming blurred Another technology that has arisen using GNSS is Automatic Dependent Surveillance (ADS). This technology...
October 2019
Ground segment transformation - convergence of NewSpace and the cloud
...-mission fashion. By relying on a trusted ground segment service provider, satellite operators are able to focus on what differentiates their business, rather than on the ground segment. Relying on existing world-class systems frees them up to put...
January 2020
Small body missions unveil interplanetary secrets
..., resulting in it having a relatively low density. In contrast, Vesta, at about 500 km in size, was large enough to have differentiated by melting the accreted rocky material to create an iron-nickel core some 220 km in diameter; and thus it is the...
January 2020
Old rocks, new tricks - a lunar link to modern volcanology
... on Earth, but how are these stories told? Crystal Rain model - a shorthand description of the process by which differential nucleation and growth inside a magma body, caused by crystal settling that imposes an asymmetric thermal and compositional...
January 2021
Evolution of volatiles on the Moon
... our solar system today. The later accretion of planetesimals is what forms the much larger differentiated protoplanets. The differentiation process - the internal rearrangement of a body producing the heavier material at the centre and progressively...
