03 October 2019
SENER Aeroespacial successfully delivers the AOCS of the Euclid satellite
... test the outstanding subsystem's performance, achieving the most demanding pointing stability obtained to date in a space science mission. That achieved pointing stability is better than 25 milliarcseconds (1σ) is maintained during 11 minutes, which...
October 2017
Cassini observations open up Saturn’s atmosphere
..., assets on Earth and in orbit (like the James Webb Space Telescope) will continue to observe Saturn to build on Cassini’s legacy...team. Dr Fletcher gained a Natural Sciences degree from Cambridge, a planetary science PhD from Oxford; and has worked...
February 2023
The scientific basis for lunar helium-3 production
...behaviour in the creation of life support systems for space flights, permanent settlements on the planets and methods for... of Sciences. He is an Academician A Skochinsky award holder, recipient of the Russian Government Prize in Science and ...
14 April 2023
Europe’s JUICE begins its long journey to Jupiter
... out to its intended destination. Arrival in the Jovian system is expected in July 2031. JUICE is the last ESA space science mission to launch on an Ariane 5, the culmination of a legacy dating back to 1999 with the launch of XMM-Newton, which...
04 July 2016
ROOM attends the UK National Astronomy Meeting
... the UKSA it was not all doom and gloom. Dr Katherine Wright, Head of Space Science lightened moods by stating that their membership of the European Space Agency (ESA), was not dependant on the UK’s membership of the EU, therefore projects currently...
January 2020
Old rocks, new tricks - a lunar link to modern volcanology
...pathways. It’s still early days, but the future for this science is bright, and it’s about to go off-planet. ... it is possible for entire magma pathways to be reconstructed in space and time: a physical history of magma from chemical records ...
