June 2022
Protecting crews in interplanetary ships and space colonies from the space environment
... orbital stations near colonised planets. Space settlements on the Moon, Mars, Ceres, Titan and other celestial bodies can be protected from hypogravity, as the rotation of residential settlement modules, that create artificial gravity, is possible...
01 July 2016
Asteroid Day was celebrated on June 30 – but what was it all about?
... (COO of B612), Grigorij Richters and Rusty Schweickart. But what is an asteroid, anyways? The classification of celestial bodies is largely size and orbit-dependent. Asteroids, sometimes referred to as minor planets or planetoids, are large rocky...
24 September 2018
Hayabusa2 rovers land successfully on Ryugu
... method of space exploration by surface movement on small bodies,” said Yuichi Tsuda, Project Manager for Hayabusa2. The...confirm the effectiveness of this movement mechanism on the small celestial body and see the result of many years of research,” ...
24 April 2019
InSight detects first marsquake
... installed five seismometers on the Moon that measured thousands of quakes to reveal lively seismic activity on our nearest celestial body. InSight's seismometer, which was placed on the Red Planet’s surface in December of last year, will enable...
18 September 2019
Researchers calculate feasibility of sending a probe to C/2019 Q4 (Borisov)
... the comet in time. An Oberth manoeuvre is a spaceflight manoeuvre, specifically an engine burn performed during the flyby of a celestial body. It uses the gravitational well of the Sun to give the spacecraft a boost; the closer the boost is applied...
09 June 2021
Meteorites impacting Earth mainly come from a very small region of space, new study says
... overturns generally accepted meteorite flux theories, it also provides a new perspective on where in the solar system celestial bodies that are at greatest risk of colliding with Earth originate from. “We argue that meteorites and small asteroids...
