31 January 2020
Einsteins prediction of 'draggable' space-time confirmed by stellar binary system
...has already been detected by satellite experiments in the gravitational field of the rotating Earth. However because of the size of... the pulsar's motion or due to the electrons and magnetic fields that the pulses encounter.” At first the stellar pair ...
June 2015
The day Philae landed: how a rough touchdown still made history at the Rosetta Mission
... between Rosetta and Philae provided information on which a landing ellipse could be defined. Together with correlation of the magnetic field measurements between the ROMAP instrument on board Philae and the RPC-MAG instrument on board Rosetta a very...
July 2018
The rise of interplanetary CubeSats
... Europa. The unique challenges in the Jupiter system include the high-ionizing radiation due to Jupiter’s strong magnetic field, temperatures reaching below -150C and decreased solar-insolation (sunlight). All of these factors limit the capabilities...
03 January 2017
What did 2016 do for us?
...beyond the mission’s original plan, including sampling the atmosphere and ionosphere, measuring Saturn’s gravitational and magnetic fields, determining ring mass, and making the last views of Enceladus. Chang’e 5, China’s unmanned mission to the moon...
