January 2018
NASA’s space police wield full force of law
... arrived at the restaurant with her husband, a retired employee of the Federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. Upon meeting and exchanging pleasantries with ‘Jeff’, Joann placed the Moon rock and Apollo 11 heat...
May 2018
Challenging the boundaries of materials science
... space missions of Ariane 2, 3 and 4 rockets between 1986 and 2003. In 2011, ELA-2 was brought down by a controlled explosion and dismantled. The metal structure and electronic contents were stripped down, compressed and returned to Europe...
May 2018
PLATO the habitable zone explorer
... gives an estimate of the exoplanet’s radius. The first exoplanet transit was detected in 2000, and again led to an explosion of new planet detections. The technique has since been used by several ground-based projects, including the...
October 2018
Developing wearable technologies for space and Earth
... the spacesuit to design, and could incorporate sensor integration and wearable feedback in future designs. The explosion of commercial terrestrial communication applications based on multiple different standards and competing interests makes it hard...
February 2019
Simulating lunar and martian regolith in the laboratory
... a missing simulant includes lunar pyroclastic material. Anorthosite is lunar highlands-like rock. The term ‘pyroclastic’ refers to explosive volcanism that occurs in many locations on Earth, and also some local regions on the Moon. The Apollo...
April 2019
Cleaning up space
... (meaning about 62 percent of satellites still in orbit are non-functional debris) 500 collisions, break-ups and explosions (creating further fragmentation and debris) 8100 tonnes of space objects in orbit. The number of debris objects estimated...
