29 November 2019
Hera mission is approved as ESA receives biggest ever budget
...such as the Athena X-ray telescope, the Lisa space-based gravitational wave observatory, and the Clearspace active ... lucky. ESA’s Lagrange space weather mission that would provide timely and accurate space weather information has been limited to...
06 November 2020
The Moon could have a long-lost "twin" in orbit around Mars
... the place we see today,” says Apostolos. “The space between the newly-formed planets was full of debris and...lunar-like in composition through millions or billions of years of space weathering. Alternatively, the object came from Mars itself. “The ...
August 2016
Big or small - aerospace innovates through constraints
...support for launching a new and much needed climate and space weather monitoring satellite revived the debate over Triana in 2011, ...Ship and goods tracking, animal tracking and passive weather data gathering are all poised for incredible improvements....
August 2016
Our changing world and the mounting risk of a calamitous solar storm
..., 2016, pp 11-15. 4 Joseph N. Pelton, “Protecting Earth and A Better Way to Mars” Space Safety Magazine January 13, 2016 5 http://www.spacesafetymagazine.com/space-hazards/space-weather/protecting-earth-and-a-better-way-to-mars/(last accessed March...
21 July 2015
“EPIC” Earth from NASA and DSCOVR: Stunning image taken from a million miles away
...’s main mission is to maintain real-time solar wind monitoring capabilities, in order to produce more accurate and timely space weather alerts from NOAA. What’s particularly amazing about the image is that it is taken from a million miles away...
20 January 2016
Our view of Van Allen belts set to be revolutionised by new data from NASA probes
... belts consist of a small, inner belt, a largely-empty space known as the slot region, and then a large, dynamic outer... help us understand how radiation belts evolve during extreme space weather events,” said project scientist Sasha Ukhorskiy, in an ...