April 2020
Space Florida - gateway to an interstellar future
... historic missions of Mercury, Gemini, Apollo and Space Shuttle launched from Florida, as well as numerous defence and planetary science missions. Astronauts flew aboard the Space Shuttle to the International Space Station and the Space Coast...
June 2019
The challenge of planetary protection
... has 19 members, including national and international space agency representatives and science experts in fields related to planetary protection (such as planetary sciences, geology and geophysics, astrobiology, microbiology and sample-return). This...
September 2019
A new era in planetary defence missions
... Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, MD, USA. She received an undergraduate degree in physics at Rice University and a PhD in planetary science at the University of Arizona. She has been a member of five field teams with the Antarctic Search for...
August 2016
Commercial space development spurs trend for public-private collaboration
... markets The civil space agencies of the world conduct activities in three general categories: exploration, planetary science, and Earth science. The newer commercial space companies are developing business in three categories as well: space tourism...
February 2019
Simulating lunar and martian regolith in the laboratory
...full operations in the final quarter of 2018, and samples are available for loan to support relevant planetary science and engineering projects including testing of rover/instrument components, instrument calibration, life detection experiments, ISRU...
October 2017
Cassini observations open up Saturn’s atmosphere
... Fellowship and a European Research Council Consolidator Grant to support his planetary atmospheres research team. Dr Fletcher gained a Natural Sciences degree from Cambridge, a planetary science PhD from Oxford; and has worked as a research fellow...
