November 2021
Megasatellite habitat at Ceres
... parabolic and a white ceiling which can be lowered. Before the construction of the megasatellite station can begin, a solar panel power system, mining rovers and a propellant factory on the surface of Ceres will need to be established. A factory...
14 December 2020
Systems shutdown as ISS suffers from power and oxygen failures
... being turned off. The International Space Station is powered by light from the Sun which is captured by a number of solar panels attached to the US Segment, the Russian Service Module (SM) and the Functional Cargo Block (FGB). However, because...
March 2015
Chasing comets together: the Vega project in the USSR and beyond
... 76-year-long orbit passes through the centre of our solar system. Prior to this, the USSR considered a joint...-scale model of the standalone small station (SSS) with deployed solar panels. It was developed for the Phobos mission One of the possible...
June 2015
Finding asteroids before they find us
...the sun will let it generate twice as much power from its solar panels as it would in Earth’s orbit. Three tiers of sunshades ...only possible by governments. Mapping the great unknown of the inner solar system is one of those missions – and it is the ...
April 2017
Urgent action needed to keep satellites safe in orbit
... a complex system involving numerous subsystems that have finite lifetimes due to mechanical wearing (e.g. Sun-tracking solar panel bearings, momentum wheels, etc.), limited propulsion resources (gas jets or similar), and carefully engineered thermal...
23 August 2016
NASA Makes Contact with STEREO-B Spacecraft
.... Credit: NASA STEREO-A and STEREO-B spacecraft (Solar and Terrestrial Relations Observatory Spacecraft) were launched in ... which in turn would have caused problems with its power-generating solar panels. It is yet unclear if STEREO-B will be able to ...
