October 2017
Exploring Jupiter’s icy moons
... in the Solar System with the necessary conditions to sustain life?’ The JUICE payload consists of 10 state-of-the-art instruments plus one experiment that uses the spacecraft telecommunication system with ground-based telescopes. This...
November 2017
Preserving Apollo’s lunar legacy
...over a span of time or within a cultural area of the world, on developments in architecture or technology, monumental arts, town-planning or landscape design Bear a unique or at least exceptional testimony to a cultural tradition or to a civilization...
December 2017
Dressing up for space
...Prof Benedetto Quaquaro is Technical Director of the Politecnico di Milano, Italy. A designer and curator of exhibitions in the fields of art and technology, he works closely with Annalisa Dominoni on projects for ESA to expand the potential of space...
January 2018
SLS ushers transformation of deep space exploration
...-specific performance requirements. Hotfire testing has also supported development and certification of the new state-of-the-art engine controllers and software. The engine controllers for the RS-25 engines for first integrated flight have...
April 2018
Future Cubesat swarms pose significant communications challenges
... View; IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, vol. 18, no. 4, pp. 2442-2473, Fourth quarter 2016. 3 Small Spacecraft Technology State of Art, Mission Design Division Staff, NASA Ames Research Center, NASA/TP–2014–216648/REV1, July 2014 4 Crail...
May 2018
Satellite data helps combat illegal shark fishing
... the location, time and behaviour of specific vessels at sea. This advanced system uses state of the art technology in conjunction with specialist fisheries analysts to provide detailed, actionable insight to help governments in their endeavour...
