April 2025
Spacecraft anomalies and insurance losses
... point. Although most insurance loss events happen either at launch or during the first year of a spacecraft’s life, space weather events can complicate this trend. As shown in Figure 3, by measuring the insurance loss rate relative to the platform...
June 2017
Bepi-Colombo will unveil Mercury’s secrets
...in 2015 and study it to understand the rate of space weathering. Trials and tribulations Having a dual spacecraft such as MPO...new materials able to withstand the extreme environments of space, including severe temperatures, and to insulate the ...
02 April 2025
Bold ideas and big questions in our Spring 2025 issue
... include: Making Babies in Microgravity – Investigating the science and societal implications of human procreation in space Space Weather & Infrastructure Risk – Understanding the threat of solar storms to global communications and power grids The...
December 2014
Ready for Mars? From Mars-500 to zero-gravity medical issues
... core of the spacecraft interior, possibly surrounded by stored water and oxygen tanks,together of course with accurate space weather warnings. Another particular medical issue faced by astronauts that is now better understood, following a 2012 NASA...
April 2018
Future Cubesat swarms pose significant communications challenges
...of eight CubeSats at 450-550 km in LEO. Each spacecraft collects space weather data cross-linked to each other via UHF band at a rate...and Frequency Past Practice and Current Trends; NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, June 2014. 7 Zanette, Luca; Reyneri...
May 2021
Taking quantum into space
... accessories around them can improve our resilience by giving us precise timing measurements using quantum clocks, predicting space weather events using magnetometers and giving us more up to date resource information under the earth using quantum...
