July 2021
Arecibo - an astounding legacy
..., a 10-metre radio telescope launched by the Russian space agency into a highly elliptical Earth orbit. This collaboration...amazing scientific legacy. Its unique place in the history of science as the world’s largest radio telescope and the most ...
18 December 2019
After delays, ESA’s exoplanet mission launches successfully
... ‘Small’-class mission implemented in the Cosmic Vision 2015–25 programme, the current planning cycle for ESA's space science missions, and the first mission in the programme overall to be launched. As a Small-class mission with a relatively short...
January 2018
When it comes to water Mars may not be the promised land
... a significant setback for many scientists and wealthy space enthusiasts who have ambitious plans of human exploration and...in this test inside a clean room at Lockheed Martin Space Systems, Denver. This configuration is how the spacecraft will ...
May 2018
PLATO the habitable zone explorer
...the maximum chance of finding planets, are only possible from space. Kepler stared for four years at the same patch ... of Warwick in the UK and leads the PLATO mission’s Science Management Office. His research focuses on the discovery of transiting ...
November 2019
PROSPECTing for lunar polar volatiles
... lunar exploration programmes, and the Moon as a target for science and exploration is set to become a new focus of international... the development of the Lunar Gateway (also called Deep Space Gateway). Which of these visions will be implemented? This...
14 October 2019
First dedicated commercial smallsat mission to Mars unveiled
... on the international arena. The project will accelerate the development of small satellites and of lightweight space science instrument technology. We want Poland to be ‘the go-to’ country for small interplanetary spacecraft,” said Grzegorz Zwoli...
