December 2014
Rosetta revelations: the fabric of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko
... from there about how the building blocks of our solar system formed By carrying very sensitive instruments for the ... studying the interaction of the comet with its environment (the solar wind), will give us a much better understanding of: how comets...
31 May 2017
NASA to 'touch the Sun' with Parker Solar Probe
.... His work describes an entire complex system of magnetic fields, plasmas and energetic particles that make up the solar wind phenomenon. Accordingly, NASA has dedicated its latest mission in honour of Parker’s accomplishments within the field. “This...
24 January 2022
Solar sail mission will intercept and study small asteroid
...CubeSat called NEA Scout will use a thin, aluminum-coated solar sail about the size of a tennis court to propel ... Artemis I uncrewed test flight this spring, the sail will use solar radiation to propel the CubeSat to the asteroid, estimated to be ths...
September 2020
Tackling space debris - a global priority
...three components to SSA: space weather: monitoring solar activity such as solar wind, etc, which can affect space-borne infrastructure... to post-mission disposal manoeuvres using drag sails, solar sails, or some inflatable structure that increases the ...
March 2021
Space weather and risk mitigation
...launch planned for 2023, it will observe the solar wind interaction with the magnetosphere, the polar cusps and... in raising awareness of emerging risks - including The Impact of Solar Storms on Power Systems published by Swiss Re in cooperation with ...
10 October 2018
MASCOT successfully surveys the surface of Ryugu
... instrument also switched on prior to the separation and took measurements to show the relatively weak field of the solar wind and the very strong magnetic disturbances caused by the spacecraft. "At the moment of the separation, we expected a clear...
