17 March 2021
Like Venus, ancient water on Mars is trapped in its crust, new study says
... freed. "All of this water was sequestered fairly early on, and then never cycled back out," Scheller says. The research, which relied on data from telescopes, ... the timescales of sustained participation of water in the hydrologic cycle,” they add.
20 September 2021
Best time for a human Mars mission? During a solar maximum, new study says
...solar particle intensity varies during the 11-years solar cycle, with the latter decreasing during solar activity minima...through a spacecraft shell during different phases of a solar cycle. Protons and nine ion species to model solar particle ...
19 June 2018
Harwell Space Cluster turbocharges growth in UK’s ‘New Space’ sector
... risk sectors for venture capitalists, as the length of the innovation cycle made it more difficult to realise strong returns. More recently, we've seen this innovation cycle shrinking, enabling much greater returns. This makes the space sector...
July 2014
The hypersonic grail: advances at DARPA, AFRL and beyond
... vehicle (RLV) could be developed that flew back and forth from LEO safely, reliably, and within a cycle time of days, launch costs would plummet by more than an order of magnitude to less than $1,000/ kg. A likely result...
July 2014
A revitalised space sector reduces costs and makes space data more accessible
... improve our understanding of the amount of carbon stored in plants and their role in the carbon and water cycles, and is also used to optimise agricultural productivity Thus, for many space service start-ups, access to the...
December 2014
MAVEN and the evolution of Mars
... – the ionising light waves that are known to vary much more with the 11-year solar activity cycle than visible light – is monitored by an EUV detector. The one imager on MAVEN captures the appearance of the Mars...
