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...
January 2021
Evolution of volatiles on the Moon
...now think we have found in the PSRs a time capsule of the history of the volatiles in our solar system. To understand how this occurred ...far less frequently today than in early solar system history, have continually pulverised the upper tens of metres...
