January 2020
A year of consolidation and expansion
...’s approach to leading the proceedings at vital times. Prof Floris Wuyts, Science Minister, presents awards for the best student contributions at Asgardia’s first Space Science & Investment Congress (ASIC) in October. Foundation stone What next? Well...
06 April 2016
Crude oil launched into space today to study Earth's depths
...Earth. This program, know as the Soret Coefficient in Crude Oil experiment is a collaboration between ESA, China’s National Space Science Centre, France’s Total oil company and China’s PetroChina oil company and is designed to measure how hydrocarbon...
06 September 2021
China develops prototype for its own Mars helicopter
... a “Mars cruise drone” passed a final acceptance review, said officials at China’s National Space Science Center (NSSC) last week. The drone, one of three space-related projects the NSSC passed, bears a striking resemblance to Ingenuity, NASA’s shoe...
December 2014
MAVEN and the evolution of Mars
...then Deputy Principal Investigator Robert P. Lin, at the Space Sciences Laboratory (SSL), University of California, Berkeley, a...the surface radiation measurements taken by the Mars Science Laboratory Radiation Assessment Detector and the measurements ...
August 2019
Reinventing the space museum
... Museum of Interstellar Art. In his spare time, Wael volunteers as Outreach Coordinator with the Planetary Society, promoting space science and STEM education in Europe and the Middle East. He also enjoys photography, reading and ambient pop...
December 2014
Ready for Mars? From Mars-500 to zero-gravity medical issues
...fully the medical consequences of living in space and undertaking flights to deep space and Mars. The initial impact of zero...during the 2011–12 transit flight of the Mars Science Laboratory probe via the unshielded radiation assessment detector ...