April 2020
Lunar artefact – a time capsule for the future
...of full sun to full darkness. Additional consideration for laser welding, mechanical assembly, scale, vibration load, and ... its colour will fade to expose raw nickel alloy and a laser engraved image in the mural surface. This change will occur across...
February 2022
Extremophiles as a blueprint for universal life
... Today, sending a ‘genesis ark’ of extremophiles to distant bodies on board ultra-light nanocrafts powered by ground-based lasers may be a possibility The heat produced by the radioactive decay supported liquid water pools in a large number of comets...
January 2023
China’s space ambitions fuel defence spending and global innovation
... threats today in space could be cyber-attacks targeting ground communications terminals, wiping out command and control, or laser blinding remote sensing satellites flying over areas of interest and electric jamming of satellites. Other threats are...
April 2025
Space sustainability and the role of space situational awareness
...can be optical telescopes, radio frequency, radar, or laser ranging. However, all of these have their own ... have restrictions on using radar technology for any purpose. Laser ranging faces governmental restrictions and also requires a surface that...
12 February 2016
A scientific breakthrough as gravitational waves detected for the first time
... by researchers using the two detectors of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO). The discovery ...minutes of the binary's evolution, should be detectable with laser interferometric detectors, such as LIGO and the Virgo detector...
19 February 2016
Test Masses of ESA's LISA Pathfinder Released Successfully
... the spacecraft´s scientific instrument. The LISA Technology Package (LTP), which weighs around 150 kilograms, includes laser interferometers measuring changes in the distance between two precision-engineered gold/platinum test masses, each weighing...
