April 2018
Developing Mars
...water. Returning cold water serves as a massive transparent radiation shield and an architectural pressure-medium for dome habitats... 1 Gev, shielding the site from nearly all solar flare radiation and more than half of galactic cosmic rays. Likewise, ...
January 2019
Preparing for a robotic revolution in Earth orbit
... restrictions are needed to maintain temperatures within acceptable ranges for motors, lubricants, electronics and other components. 3. Radiation. High-energy charged particles bathe the space environment, being emitted both by the sun and galactic...
June 2020
Saving Earth – time for a new cooperative framework
... space-based ‘Venetian blind’ to calibrate and modulate solar radiation. This might give us some reprieve from climate change, for... from reaching Earth and perhaps reflect some to radiate in different directions. This approach is a concept that...
July 2021
Arecibo - an astounding legacy
... for maser emission is produced in Arp 220 by infrared radiation from interstellar dust heated by newborn stars. The first millisecond...installed. This replaced the line feed, which collected radiation along an axis, with a Gregorian reflector which ...
August 2021
Space research in embryology
...gravity and gravitational field change electromagnetic field change radiation background change. The null gravity factor is... by modulating their energy input, for example. Ionising radiation is known to target cell membranes and nucleic acids,...
07 June 2019
First-ever image of cool gas disk surrounding Milky Way's black hole
... Fahrenheit), or about half the temperature found at the core of our Sun. At these blistering temperatures, high-energy radiation in the form of X-rays are emitted which can be picked up by space-based X-ray telescopes as close as a tenth of a light...
