19 November 2015
Einstein's theory to be tested by Galileo satellites
... alternative theories of gravitation. ESA's senior sat nav? Advisor Javier Ventura-Traveset explained that “while the Gravity Probe A experiment involved a single orbit of Earth, we will be able to monitor hundreds of orbits over the course of a year...
16 August 2021
Saturn's rings help reveal the planet has a "fuzzy" core
... other forms of wave – this is known as ring seismology and was a technique first developed in the 1980s. By incorporating gravity data with seismic measurements from Saturn’s rings, Christopher Mankovich and Jim Fuller at the California Institute...
March 2015
Sowing a new dream
... over 80 thousand schools all over China on the 300 km earth orbit. I demonstrated magical physical phenomena in micro-gravity and successfully conducted five small experiments on the movement of objects and liquid surface tension. It was a great...
January 2017
Blueprint for NASA’s journey to Mars
...scientific operations with minimal geologic disturbance in the milli-gravity of these ‘alien’ worlds, astronauts will collect ...opportunities to develop and validate sample return and low gravity body mission elements, systems and protocols prior to...
January 2019
Visiting an asteroid to find out how life began
... about 1.1 kg each, and measuring 18 cm by 7 cm. The main task of these rovers on Ryugu’s surface is to rove. Movement on a very low gravity body is a tricky business. Wheels and caterpillar tracks will lack the friction needed to drive across the...
May 2019
Wake-up call for debris creation in geostationary orbit
... The biggest investment in response to the space debris issue, by an order of magnitude, has been the 2013 film Gravity The problem of the lack of legal accountability or liability applies to all orbital regimes but there is a danger in assuming...
