18 January 2022
First of 40 planned launches for China
...officials said Shiyan 13 will be used for space environment data collection and technology tests but did not ...currently three astronauts on China’s Shenzhou 13 spacecraft on the Tianhe space station. They were launched in October and, if the planned ...
16 February 2026
New tool could reduce collision risk for EO satellites
...of Manchester have developed a new way to design Earth-observation satellite missions that could help protect the space environment while continuing to deliver vital data for tackling global challenges, such as climate change, food production, supply...
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...
20 May 2022
Science Fiction
... everything from “Robots, AI and Transhumanism” to “Environment, climate change and the Anthropocene” along with futurology,..., meaning that ‘Shuttle Enterprise’ got nowhere near the space environment. Overall, there’s very little not to like about ...
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...
