August 2017
Big science from small spacecraft
...to far-IR; microwave radiometers; sub-mm-wave spectrometers; short wavelength radars; GPS radio occultation; mass spectrometers; gamma ray and X-ray spectrometers; and optical communication lasers that can be used for occultation. That’s quite a rich...
November 2018
BepiColombo – a mission to explore Mercury
... medium. A further seven instruments–MGNS (Mercury Gamma-Ray and Neutron Spectrometer), MIXS (Mercury Imaging Spectrometer),...MPO BepiColombo Integrated Observatory), and SIXS (Solar Intensity X-ray and particle Spectrometer) – will look at everything ...
October 2020
Superconductors - key to unlocking high power space missions
...the dangerous space radiation environment. Astronauts are exposed to radiation originating from the solar wind, gamma rays, and cosmic rays. Considering mission transits on the order of months, such exposure is a significant threat to crew safety and...
31 January 2020
A final farewell to NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope
... of NASA's four Great Observatories, along with the Hubble Space Telescope, the Chandra X-ray Observatory and the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory. The Great Observatories program demonstrated the power of using different wavelengths of light to create...
September 2019
A new era in planetary defence missions
... Geology Discipline Group. Currently, she is the Deputy Principal Investigator for the Mars-moon Exploration with GAmma rays and NEutrons (MEGANE) instrument on the JAXA Martian Moons eXploration (MMX) mission and the Coordination Lead...
April 2020
Lunar artefact – a time capsule for the future
.... Thus, it provides for an ideal context for aluminium (and our other material choices) to remain in stasis indefinitely. Gamma rays, light exposure and cycling temperatures may ultimately have some effect on material performance after many tens...
