May 2026
From Apollo to Artemis - Six decades of the Lunar and Planetary Institute
... seek to understand the nature, origin and history of our solar system.” As research expanded to include other planets, satellites, asteroids... samples from the Moon, asteroids, comets, the solar wind and cosmic dust. LPI has long supported community ...
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...
10 February 2022
SpaceX Starlink satellites fall out of sky after storm
...SpaceX caused by an unexpected sting in the tail from a solar storm might also have been exacerbated by a design error or quality ...SpaceX. Geomagnetic storms are the result of interactions between solar wind - a stream of charged particles from the sun -...
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 ...
April 2026
Spaceflight and the radiation problem
...intergalactic radiation field. Most of the radiation with a solar origin consists of electrically charged particles that are effectively... sparing the crew from the worst of the solar wind. However, the intergalactic radiation field is mostly composed...
