September 2019
A new era in planetary defence missions
... ago. Other impacts, on a much smaller scale, happen all the time, providing the tens of thousands of meteorite samples that are studied around the world to learn about the earliest days of our Solar System. The...
April 2020
Lunar artefact – a time capsule for the future
... two inch diameter chambers, it contains hundreds of images, poems, pieces of music, nano-objects, mechanisms and earthly samples intertwined through complex narratives that blur the boundaries between worlds seen and unseen. It is designed to direct...
May 2022
China’s international collaboration in space: an evolving approach from the Middle Kingdom
China’s space achievements have been well-documented: three space stations, multiple lunar missions including a sample return, plans for a Lunar Research Base and a number of Mars missions, to name but a few. In parallel, China ...
23 November 2018
3D printed body parts being studied for future astronauts
... plummeted back to Earth. The original program was comprised of 56 experiments, including the growth of small 2-3 millimetre samples of human cartilage tissue and the thyroid gland of a rodent from a hydrogel-based material. Building spare body ...
05 April 2019
Hayabusa2 probe 'bombs' asteroid to create a crater
... spacecraft will be able to descend to a lower altitude and collect some of the newly excavated material. This pristine sample, which could be packed with water and other organic material, will hopefully help scientists understand the...
November 2019
PROSPECTing for lunar polar volatiles
... in the oven, ProSPA can process it by applying heat and by exposing it to selected reactants The progressive heating of the sample leads to a progressive release of volatiles that are either stored within ProSPA for later processing, or are directly...
