29 March 2018
Materials and Processes for Spacecraft and High Reliability Applications
...post-flight materials’. As far as illustrations are concerned, engineering problems related to spacecraft hardware in the space environment are “highlighted by over 500 illustrations including micrographs and fractographs”. The big surprise, for such...
December 2014
Before Rosetta: Svetlana Gerasimenko’s story
... long time. When I heard that a man had just flown to space, I went running and screaming back into the class and announced the news...with comets. In those days, the universal interest in space meant that astronomy was not an unusual profession and ...
June 2017
Bepi-Colombo will unveil Mercury’s secrets
...purple). Mariner 10 remained the only spacecraft to probe Mercury until the recent MESSENGER (MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging - a reference to the Roman mythological messenger Mercury). MESSENGER was the first spacecraft...
October 2017
Tracking air pollution and monitoring climate change
...Space Office (NSO), forms part of a joint EC-ESA undertaking which aims to acquire continuous and accurate Earth observation data to improve the management of the environment...manager. He is also involved in Space Debris Mitigation, and in particular ...
May 2019
Unlocking the full potential of Earth observation
... manage our resources, monitor and protect our environment and respond to humanitarian disasters. But getting this ...orbit. High speed connections On 13 July 2018, Analytical Space deployed its first satellite to expand connectivity in orbit. The...
January 2020
Collaborating to harness space innovation in healthcare
... vital to study how humans respond to extended exposure to the space environment to determine how, as a species, we can safely extend our...phase when it comes to the utility of the space environment for advancing the life sciences, but as experience ...
