June 2017
Bepi-Colombo will unveil Mercury’s secrets
... Earth to have a significant magnetic field. This is a key parameter in allowing life to take hold on a planet, as without its shielding Earth would receive a significant amount of dangerous radiation from the Sun thus making conditions difficult for...
January 2019
Engineering six-hour solar eclipses with formation flying
... m for several hours. The satellites will form a so-called ‘externally occulted’ coronagraph, with the satellite imager shielded from glaring sunlight by an occulting disk on the other satellite, forming an artificial eclipse. This will be achieved...
May 2020
Protecting areas of scientific importance on the Moon
... exploration and development is the siting of a radio astronomical observatory on the far side of the Moon, where it would be shielded against interference from Earth. But could radio astronomy in scientifically critical areas on the lunar far side...
April 2018
Developing Mars
... in 2008 [25]. The LMT proposal would suspend a five-cable superconducting system from the Omaha Crater rim to shield exposed crater surface facilities. Magnetostatic modelling indicates that this configuration deflects cosmic rays to about 1 Gev...
October 2020
Superconductors - key to unlocking high power space missions
...fulfilled with conventional technologies. HTS coils, on the other hand, would be capable of generating the required protective shielding with a far more mass-efficient solution than passive-based approaches. Comparison of physical size of DC bus bars...
June 2016
A new microgravity research facility for Central Texas and beyond
...capsule containing the experiment into the aerodynamically shaped drag shield. From the moment of integration, which is finalized...the cylindrical and air-tight side walls of the drag shield, until the experiment run is completed all systems onboard ...
