January 2020
Collaborating to harness space innovation in healthcare
... use of funds, and better patient outcomes. X-ray optics deployed on star-mapping spacecraft, such as ESA’s XMM Newton mission launched in 1999, have been re-purposed by companies such as Adaptix allowing doctors to get a more comprehensive view...
11 January 2019
Birth of a black hole possibly captured for first time
...ground-based telescopes including ESA’s Integral and XMM-Newton and NASA’s NuSTAR and Swift space telescopes ...we don’t completely understand,” says Norbert Schartel, ESA’s XMM-Newton project scientist. “One satellite, one instrument alone, would never...
October 2015
Taking AIM with ESA: proposing the first visit to a binary asteroid system
... is a simple one with fixed solar arrays, a fixed high-gain antenna and a bipropellant propulsion system with 24 10-Newton thrusters. Once understood, kinetic impact for asteroid deflection could feasibly be applied to other targets should the...
October 2015
Down to Earth: how to deorbit satellites and save money
... required post-mission. Since on-board propulsion systems only deliver small impulses in the order of magnitude of 1 Newton, the decommissioning manoeuvre can take a long time - up to 25 years - with additional operational, monitoring and liability...
August 2016
Are the days of innovation in global space over - or just beginning?
... social, economic or political phenomena but we do not have a one size fits all answer: in political science we have no Newton. Winning the ‘hearts and minds’ of the people is an incredibly important factor in the cultural imperialism that promotes...
March 2018
Exploring the extreme universe
... gap between the current generation of hard X-ray satellites - like NuSTAR, INTEGRAL, SWIFT, Chandra, RXTE, XMM-Newton - and NASA’s Fermi Large Area Telescope, making pioneering observations of the most powerful Galactic and extragalactic...
