May 2017
Growing plants without gravity
...experiments provided the necessary information to allow astronauts to control moisture for the first time in human spaceflight history. If at first you don’t succeed… During lengthy flights an experiment where something is grown can find a wide range...
August 2017
Space invaders and the usual suspects - disruptive trends in Earth observation
... different types of Earth observation (EO) models have been developed and several disruptive events have shaped EO history, bringing significant changes in paradigms. France’s decision, in 1986, to use a commercial model for the distribution of SPOT...
October 2017
Exploring Jupiter’s icy moons
.... A capture manoeuvre is performed to reduce the apocentre altitude. By investigating Jupiter and its satellites and discovering the history of its evolution we will gain a greater understanding of how gas giants and their satellite systems form and...
August 2018
Flying to the stars
... travel to the stars. Today, for the first time in history, we might be only decades away from sending a spacecraft ... spacecraft to the stars? Today, we are at a unique point in history. We can conceive machines that we can send to other stars. And it...
September 2019
A new era in planetary defence missions
...asteroids 10 million kilometres from Earth. Throughout its history, the Earth has been continually impacted by asteroids ...achieve planetary defence objectives. While NASA has a long history of finding, tracking, and characterising near-Earth objects, ...
September 2020
Tackling space debris - a global priority
...observation satellite called Microsat-R, which added at least 400 new sizable debris objects to the population. A time history of the documented ASAT events is shown in the accompanying chart. These in-orbit collisions and explosions have highlighted...
