June 2022
Sunshades in space could help alleviate Earth’s climate crisis
... have yielded basic results on minimum mass constraints, control laws for propellant-less station-keeping using photon pressure, trajectories for deployment to the SEL-1 region, and several potential architectures for how a sunshade would...
September 2023
The Institute of Biomedical Problems - Sixty years of contributing to the development of space biomedicine
... research. The Institute successfully implemented a series of studies on specialised biological satellites of the Cosmos, Bion and Photon series. On 22 February 1966, the launch of the artificial satellite Cosmos-110 with dogs Veterok and Ugolek...
08 February 2016
Japan’s Astro-H mission due to launch on February 12, 2016
...Calorimeter is an array of microcalorimeter detectors at the focus of a large X-ray telescope that converts the energy of an X-ray photon (captured by the detectors) into heat, which can then be read by a thermometer.The heat is directly proportional...
15 March 2016
Are our ideas of Dark Matter wrong?
... was at very high temperature, and the number density of WIMPs was roughly equal to the number density of photons (particles of light). This hypothetical WIMP is well studied and attempts to detect these particles have been conducted...
13 April 2016
The mystery of neutrino mass to be solved by a calcium isotope
... particles produced by the decay of radioactive elements and are elementary particles that lack an electric charge. Unlike photons or charged particles, neutrinos can travel across the universe (at essentially the speed of light) without interference...
16 May 2016
NASA Invests in the Future of Technological Development
... at NASA Headquarters in Washington. “Whether it's tensegrity habitats in space, new ways to get humans to Mars, delicate photonic propulsion, or any one of the other amazing Phase II studies NIAC is funding, I'm thrilled to welcome these innovations...
