10 February 2020
ESA's Solar Orbiter probe blasts off to face the Sun
... – in which our planet resides.” We are all Solar Orbiters Solar Orbiter will be one of two complementary spacecraft studying the... its extended atmosphere,” says Holly Gilbert, NASA Solar Orbiter Project Scientist. “The powerful combination of ...
March 2016
Searching for water in the Solar System
... July 2015. At the core of this question is the abundance of volatile-rich planetesimals migrated from the outer Solar System (ie, beyond Jupiter). Observations of increasing abundance of C-type asteroids across the main belt inferred from telescopic...
April 2020
Plasma Clipper - opening the age of sail, in space travel
... travels even faster outside of the plane and you only need to be able to utilise some of it to go anywhere in the solar system in an outward direction. Plasma magnetic sail based on rotating magnetic field generating plasma currents. Two polyphase...
June 2021
The next ‘unthinkable’ – global disruption from a solar storm
... and communication? It could be the result of a cyber attack, or it could also be the result of a severe geomagnetic storm due to solar activity. Even if the probability of the latter is low, it should not be totally ignored. For the asset management...
07 February 2020
ESA's Solar Orbiter mission set to launch on 10 February
... simulation training, the European Space Agency’s mission control is counting down the hours to the launch of their Solar Orbiter mission. Scheduled for launch Monday 10 February 04:03 GMT (05:03 CET) on top of an Atlas V rocket from Space Launch...
17 July 2020
Solar Orbiter spots country-sized ‘campfires’ on the Sun
... the size of a European country, said mission scientists in a press conference yesterday. The ‘campfires’ were detected with Solar Orbiter’s Extreme Ultraviolet Imager, or EUI instrument, which takes high-resolution images of the lower layers of the...
