26 January 2018
NASA launches GOLD to study Earth-space boundary
... one another constantly, and when merged with solar activity, coalesce to affect communications and navigation around...disruptions. Similarly, when the Sun’s surface erupts in solar flares, flurries of energised particles make their way towards ...
August 2019
Architectural challenges of a Moon village
The concept of a ‘Moon village’, introduced in 2016 by Director General of the European Space Agency, Jan Wörner, isn’t an active project or a space programme in the traditional sense. Rather, it represents an intention or vision for spaceflight and...
January 2021
Developing the economy of a space nation
As Chair of Parliament for Asgardia, the space nation, Lembit Öpik is centrally involved in working to fully establish all the elements of its operational digital democracy. In this account, he shares developments from the closing stages of the year...
20 September 2021
Best time for a human Mars mission? During a solar maximum, new study says
...Institute of Science and Technology, Moscow, Russia, the solar particles will help deflect another type of hazardous particle... flight to Mars and back is during the decaying phase of solar activity. For a mission to last four years, average shielding ...
01 November 2017
Voyager 1 spies unexpected light at the outer edges of the Solar System
... analysis shows that the theoretical boundary where the Sun's solar wind is stopped by the local interstellar medium has a...The heliopause is the boundary of the heliosphere that separates the solar wind plasma (a soup of ionised gas made up of of...
13 January 2020
New study shows a split Solar System that kickstarted growth of Jupiter
... to these differences in isotopic composition as the NC–CC dichotomy, a phenomena which most likely reflects the separation of the early Solar System into an inner and outer disk separated by Jupiter, which acted as a barrier between the two regions...
