November 2018
BepiColombo – a mission to explore Mercury
... equipped with scientific instrumentation, but the thermal and radiation environment close to the Sun, coupled with the...facility. Side view of the Mercury Planetary Orbiter, with the radiator and the three openings of the StarTracker camera system, to...
January 2022
Earth - no longer humanity’s only home
... Moon, to reduce the amount of supplies that they must carry. On the way, they will be exposed to more radiation than has ever been experienced in human spaceflight. They will need protection from that exposure, and...
June 2022
Sunshades in space could help alleviate Earth’s climate crisis
... leads to the second action to address Earth’s energy imbalance: reducing the incoming solar energy through solar radiation management (SRM). SRM is a type of geoengineering and it can be accomplished in two broad ways. The first is to increase the...
October 2023
Slovenia’s footprint in space
...Van Allen belts as the major source of intense radiation, the nanosatellite systems still function reliably, demonstrating a ...Van Allen belts as the major source of intense radiation, the nanosatellite systems still function reliably Dr Iztok ...
May 2024
The challenges of satellite communications on the move
.... The beam can then be modified by changing the amplitude and phase relationship between each element. The radiating arrays consist of a matrix of single radio-frequency (RF) patches, whereby each point source (or phased array element) effectively...
03 November 2016
MUSE instrument produces spectacular new images of the Carina Nebula
... stars are known to have a considerable effect on their surroundings, as they tend to blast out large quantities of ionising radiation. However, observing this effect has been proven difficult. McLeod's team analysed the effect of this energetic...
