30 November 2016
German company announce their 'Mission to the Moon' plans
PTScientists, a private space science and engineering company based in Berlin, has ... they will be using a commercial launch vehicle to blast their vehicles in to space. Once in orbit around the Moon, their Autonomous Landing and Navigation Module –...
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...
