August 2018
Flying to the stars
... infrastructure. The beam is reflected from a laser sail attached to the spacecraft. Similar to a sailing boat which is propelled by wind blowing against its sail, a laser sail spacecraft is propelled by the laser beam which is reflected from its...
November 2018
BepiColombo – a mission to explore Mercury
... other hand, will study the gaseous interaction between Mercury’s surface, exosphere, magnetosphere and the solar wind and interplanetary medium. A further seven instruments–MGNS (Mercury Gamma-Ray and Neutron Spectrometer), MIXS (Mercury...
November 2018
Being human in space
... and feel deprived of. What helps them to calm down is recalling things from memory, like the feeling of wind or the sound of rocks when they walk on them. Offering possibilities to create personal virtual memory experiences could...
February 2019
The Space Elevator – an alternative path to space?
...The tiny stretch of tether close to Earth including the atmosphere is especially demanding. It passes through significant wind pressure, weather phenomena such as lightning, condensation, icing, etc., and atomic oxygen (AO) that is highly detrimental...
