July 2017
Hunting for neutrinos in the ice of Antarctica
... full ARIANNA will have up- and downward-pointing antennas at every station, which will allow for an easy differentiation between neutrino and cosmic ray signals. While the latter are more abundant - after all cosmogenic...
September 2017
Plans for high-speed lunar rovers
... Opportunity and 899 kg for Curiosity) and the use of a slightly different version of the rocker-bogie suspension (differential for Opportunity and hinged-lever for Curiosity) the properties that characterise the performance of both robotic...
August 2018
Measuring the pulse of Mars
... alive and well. A rendition of the formation of rocky bodies in the solar system - how they form and differentiate, and evolve into terrestrial planets. MarCO’s moment of glory will be short-lived though as NASA and JPL...
September 2018
Bridging the ‘digital divide’ with nanosatellites
... (M2M) or Internet of Things (IoT) - at a fraction of the cost of traditional satellite communications providers due to a major differential in the capital cost for the infrastructure. In addition, because the network infrastructure is in space, many...
October 2018
Radiation study paves way for safe deep space exploration
... of radiation-induced cancer. This is due to the exponential progeny size of a stem or progenitor cell compared with a differentiated cell. Thus, a stem cell harbouring a mutation will pass this mutation on to a large number of daughter cells...
March 2019
Urgent action needed to avert space debris threat
..., especially between governments and commercial industry. Space debris and congestion is a global issue. Debris doesn’t differentiate between a satellite belonging to one nation and one belonging to another. Space is a shared environment and we all...
