24 January 2022
Solar sail mission will intercept and study small asteroid
...the camera has a resolution of less than 10 cm per pixel, the mission’s science team anticipate being able to determine whether 2020 GE is solid ...than March. The mission will act as a nimble scout for future human and robotic missions that may utilise...
June 2015
European lab in the sky: OP-SAT and new potential for ESA spacecraft
... associate space with the latest and greatest technology. This is sometimes true, because operating a complex robotic mission in a very challenging environment millions of kilometres away is not easy. However, these challenges also produce a paradox...
January 2019
Space for Art – Love letter to Earth
... further from our home planet. Both the idea and the reality of human missions to space impact us in a far deeper way than robotic missions alone ever will. As individuals we have the power to accept this Earthrise truth and...
20 October 2017
NASA Psyche mission to use laser communication
... at a large aperture ground telescope at Palomar Mountain Observatory in California, near San Diego. "Having our robotic mission test technology that we hope will help us eventually communicate with people in deep space is excellent integration...
