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...
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...
November 2018
Monitoring illegal rainforest deforestation
... technologies on optical systems design and innovative construction techniques, using materials carefully selected for use in the space environment, and based on state-of-the-art signal and image processing tools to improve the image quality, with...
October 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...
October 2023
Remote sensing by satellite - People’s Republic of China
... in sun-synchronous orbits (SSO), according to state media used for “detecting the atmospheric and marine environment and space environment, as well as disaster control and other scientific experiments”. The Yunhai series is assessed to have military...
August 2016
Long-term spaceflight and microbiological safety issues
...-breakers when it comes to the longest period an organism has survived in space. They not only live on orbital stations but they develop, adapt to the space environment and are able to reproduce. The longer spacecraft operate the more...
