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...
23 April 2018
CubeSats lead the way for new NASA missions
...course by external forces, such as Earth's atmosphere and magnetic field. ASTERIA showed that despite its diminutive payload, it was...used to study certain star systems that are not within the field of view of larger observatories. Or both. Their uses ...
04 June 2018
More surprises for neutron star merger GW170817
... happen astronomers theorise that the newly singular object would generate a very strong magnetic field as it spun very rapidly. The production of the field then initiates an expanding bubble of high-energy particles that emits light as bright X-ray...
