October 2020
Morality, rights and responsibilities in space
... necessarily on enforceable rules and laws. It is calculated that the iron in asteroid 16 Psyche, one of the most massive asteroids in the...similar to the Earth’s core and rich in metallic iron and nickel. Ascendancy of the individual Space is simply...
November 2021
Megasatellite habitat at Ceres
..., not compressive-strength. The baseline choice for the tensile material is piano wire steel, which is 99 percent iron… and iron is plentiful on Ceres. Diagram depicting a megasatellite orbiting Ceres located in the asteroid belt between Mars and...
June 2022
Military space – how worried should we be?
... intercontinental ballistic missile and Explorer the A-4 derived Redstone. Ironically, it was a General, also President, Eisenhower who ... the range of American systems and each other’s. Ironically, some of these satellites were orbited by Russian...
13 March 2015
Ceres breakthrough: NASA's Dawn is first probe to visit a dwarf planet
...mainly being built out of Vestas. Vesta is a rocky exterior and an iron core; that's what we found when we got there, and that's... what we expected. And the Earth is mainly an iron core with rock around it. However, we have water [on Earth]. ...
09 February 2016
Are Earth-like worlds built like Earth?
...from Earth, the other planets should all have a nickel/iron core containing about 30 percent of the planet's mass. This... and Venus are well-described by the same fixed ratio of iron to magnesium silicate and that rocky planets very close to their ...
20 October 2017
NASA Psyche mission to use laser communication
...been specifically targeted because it appears to be the exposed nickel-iron core of an early planet, one of the building blocks ... an aspect of planet formation that is relatively unexplored: iron cores. To help relay data about Psyche, the spacecraft...
