March 2026
From dependency to resilience - Europe’s moment in space traffic management
... in next-generation systems. As a result, a more competitive market would emerge, allowing for multiple providers to offer differentiated services thus driving down costs, improving service quality and creating more responsive solutions for operators...
April 2026
Exploring Mars – the key issues
... includes a daunting list: gravity 38 percent of Earth’s; air pressure less than one percent of Earth’s; high pressure differentials; dim and reddish light; and ever-present dust averaging a quarter the diameter of talcum powder and...
23 December 2015
First new 'ground truth' in 40 years as Chinese rover Yuto presents analysis of moon rocks
... olivine detected by Yutu has a composition that ranges from intermediate in iron to iron-rich. Having Yuto on hand to differentiate between the different types of Olivine has now shed light on this conundrum. “Iron-enriched olivine and...
06 May 2016
Accurate mass of supermassive black hole calculated by astronomers using ALMA
...the densest, coldest component of the disc, the close-in observations provided researchers with crucial information to help differentiate between the gravitational influence of the black hole on the gas surrounding it against the pull of gravity from...
15 September 2016
Scientists shed light on how our gas giants got their different rings
... looked at how much debris was left and what happened to it. The results show that for a big differentiated object (around the size of 1021 and 1023kg), that up to 10 per cent of the mass of the passing body...
21 December 2018
InSight deploys its first instrument on Mars
... Mars’ layered interior. Like on Earth, heavy elements on Mars have sunk to its centre in a process known as differentiation, resulting in a dense, metallic core region overlaid by less dense materials. Scientists will use marsquakes to deduce the...
