03 October 2016
Martian soil helps boost its atmosphere with noble gases
..., while bromine on the other hand, might have surrendered some of its neutrons to produce unusual levels of krypton-80 and krypton-82. And it is thought that this neutron swapping occurred through erosion of the martian regolith or via impacts onto...
August 2017
Big science from small spacecraft
... scientist Christophe Sotin. It targets very high priority science - measuring the relative abundances of neon, argon, helium, krypton and other ‘noble’ gases to understand how Venus’ atmosphere formed and has evolved. To be truly representative...
24 May 2019
SpaceX launches first 60 satellites of its Starlink mega-constellation
... designed to handle it." After spinning into a low Earth Orbit, the satellites will then use their onboard krypton-powered thrusters to get to their operational altitude of 550 kilometres (342 miles). This relatively low altitude, which...
04 June 2020
Mega constellations and their impact on astronomy
... to avoid colliding with another satellite or a piece of space junk. At the moment two gases are predominantly used: Krypton and Xenon and both are extracted from liquid air by fractional distillation. However each element only...
