22 September 2017
OSIRIS-REx makes closest Earth approach today
... be selected from the 500, 000 known asteroids out in the Solar System. Benny is carbon-rich (where the b comes from in ...from Cape Canaveral, Florida, OSIRIS-Rex has already unfolded its solar panels in the first step of its mission. After its gravity...
14 January 2019
New steam-powered asteroid hopper that could run 'forever'
...each object to make it work. It can for instance deploy solar panels to get enough energy for mining and make steam, or for ...warm while they carried out their mission objectives. With a Solar System doomed to be littered by defunct robots no longer ...
April 2017
Sky-fi dawn of the space internet era
...the sky Facebook’s proposed drones would be powered electrically, using solar panels to remain aloft for long periods of time. This concept... some countries and latitudes. Facebook’s Aguila solar powered aircraft. Drones have high bandwidth capacity...
April 2021
Satellite servicing comes of age
...see a communications satellite decades after launch. Would the solar panels have suffered damage? Would the insulation blankets be torn...MEV-1 and IS-901 cast shadows on each other’s solar arrays, which is not encountered in standard operations outside...
26 August 2020
LEO constellations will "fundamentally change" astronomy, warns new report
... searches for near-Earth objects (NEOs), distant Solar System objects, rare transients, exoplanet transits in ...painted a small number of satellites black twisted the position of their solar panels to make them less visible. But, says the report, if ...
10 February 2021
Success for China as Tianwen-1 enters Mars' orbit
... Weighing about 240 kilograms, the rover has six wheels and four solar panels and is able to move 200 metres per hour on Mars. ... the Valles Marineris, one of the largest canyons of the Solar System, stretching a vast 4000 kilometres (2500 miles) long....
