27 March 2020
Mercury's crust could have had episodic habitable conditions, new study says
... materials, conclude the team. Over the years though, these volatiles have either dehydrated, been lost to space or chemically altered by magmatic and solar heating. That is except for the material still lurking in the shadows...
January 2021
Taking out the trash in space
...technology used during a successful mission. Operating in a microgravity environment has many challenges not found on Earth, and performing ...) in the Space Station Processing Facility at KSC. An oxygen and steam-rich environment was created within...
April 2017
Mega-challenges for mega-constellations
... constellation satellites that are quickly launched one after another would have disastrous effects for the space environment in LEO. Finally, it should not be forgotten that even apparently high PMD success rates of 95 percent still mean...
November 2018
BepiColombo – a mission to explore Mercury
... mission to visit this contrasting world of extreme heat and freezing temperatures is NASA’s MESSENGER (MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging) mission, which took up the challenge to study Mercury from orbit between March 2011...
September 2019
Electric orbit raising and space weather
...case estimate of eight percent shown for EOR-1 during the post-storm environment is a significant level of degradation The gradual degradation of solar cells in the space environment is a well-known phenomenon and is factored into the design lifetime...
March 2016
Resource Prospector – a Lunar Pathfinder
... the commercial and industrial world would ideally be ruggedised to improve their chances of survival in the launch and space environments, confirmed by vacuum, temperature and vibration testing, etc. This approach was applied across the entire suite...
