September 2019
A new era in planetary defence missions
...ion engine used on the Dawn mission to the asteroids Vesta and Ceres. DART will use NASA’s newly developed Roll Out Solar Arrays (... Dawn mission to the asteroids Vesta and Ceres. While also performing GNC duties, Dawn’s AFC distinguished itself by...
January 2020
Small body missions unveil interplanetary secrets
... volatiles such as ammonia. These observations suggest that it must have been formed much further out, so perhaps Ceres is a Kuiper belt object. Two missions currently under development will also address small body migration concepts...
August 2017
Big science from small spacecraft
... glimpse of only a few; and NASA’s Dawn mission has provided detailed examination of just two of the largest, Ceres and Vesta. This is definitely rich hunting ground for nanosat missions – the asteroid belt is close enough...
June 2022
Protecting crews in interplanetary ships and space colonies from the space environment
... large, radiation-protected, artificial gravity 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...
January 2023
China’s space ambitions fuel defence spending and global innovation
... Chinese private launch provider to succeed in its first three launches to orbit this year. It is now building its Ceres rocket to offer rapid launch service for single payloads, while its Pallas rocket is being built to deploy...
25 April 2016
Near-Earth asteroid population smaller than thought
..., by Pasquale Tricarico, a senior scientist at PSI and a participating scientist on the Dawn mission for both Vesta and Ceres, also suggests that the albedo of asteroids studied to date, in the size range between 200 - 100m, could...
