15 June 2015
Rosetta’s Philae lander awakens
...hibernation for several months due to limited sunlight at its landing site (its secondary rechargeable battery is powered by solar panels). Philae’s awakening is great news due to the major importance of the Rosetta mission, which is doing a detailed...
29 September 2016
Rosetta on the way to its final resting place on Churyumov-Gerasimenko
.../Churyumov-Gerasimenko comet is beginning to move further away from the Sun, making it more difficult for Rosetta's solar panels to recharge, and a decision was made by mission control to attempt taking measurements from closer to the comet than...
19 July 2019
China's Tiangong-2 space lab to deorbit today
..., if it hasn’t already. With a name that translates as 'heavenly palace’, this 18-metre-wide station complete with two solar panels extending from the main body, was launched from the Jiuquan space base in northwestern China on top...
31 July 2019
GLEE mission aims to send 500 LunaSats to the Moon
... $200 each. The devices will work as a fully-capable satellite, complete with several environmental sensors, a small solar panel and a radio for communicating with Earth and other LunaSats. Their objective is to collect valuable data on conditions...
05 August 2019
Weaponised satellites to be part of new space force says France
... aggressors. The next round of satellite development will then involve the attachment of devices capable of destroying solar panels, and/or blinding and destroying hostile satellites in the event of an unwarranted attack. "Having a reinforced space...
08 May 2020
China's prototype spacecraft lands successfully on Earth
... and had completed a number of experiments, the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA) said, including unfolding its solar panels, deploying its relay antenna and establishing a relay communication link, as well as conducting autonomous orbit control...
