July 2018
The rise of interplanetary CubeSats
..., is a 6U CubeSat mission that will head to a near-Earth asteroid using cold-gas propulsion to perform imaging and spectroscopy. Three CubeSat missions onboard EM-1 were selected as finalists from the NASA CubeSat Challenge. Among these challengers...
08 October 2018
A round-up of news from this years IAC
...; XRISM is being built to investigate X-ray celestial objects in the Universe with unprecedented high resolution X-ray spectroscopy. Keeping with the Americas, Agencia Espacial Civil Ecuatoriana (EXA), and Agencia Espacial de Colombia announced their...
04 May 2020
Exoplanets with hydrogen-rich atmospheres could harbour life
... imaging techniques, the latter of which is extremely challenging and is usually performed by the Hubble Space Telescope. Transmission spectroscopy is by far the most successful method and it relies on a detector sampling the light that has passed...
October 2015
Houston, we have a Spaceport
...to utilize space-derived data and information from high-resolution imaging, LIDAR, RADAR, and multi-wavelength spectroscopy for targeted terrestrial industry sectors to help improve their efficiency and effectiveness. Houston is an ideal location for...
March 2018
Mapping the dark universe
... and two instruments, a visible imager, VIS, and the Near Infrared Spectro Photometer (NISP), for slitless spectroscopy and imaging photometry. The survey consists of elementary observation sequences of around 73 minutes duration. Each sequence...
August 2018
Exoplanet census promises radical discoveries
... the critical technology, never flown in space before, needed to perform the high-contrast imaging and spectroscopy necessary to characterise planets orbiting stars like our own. Finally, if recommended by the US National Academy of Sciences...
