02 May 2019
Blue Origin's 11th test flight ends in success
... Shepard, the Space Exploration Initiative is flying several scientific payloads, as well as two projects that use zero gravity as a medium for works of art. Telepresent Drawings in Space uses graphite to create a drawing that could only have...
December 2014
MAVEN and the evolution of Mars
...distribution and topography have been mapped by use of gravity measurements from orbit and laser altimeter reflections. In a... isotopes, which are enriched at the higher masses, suggest gravity’s role in the puzzle, although chemistry can also affect ...
October 2015
Taking AIM with ESA: proposing the first visit to a binary asteroid system
... and a micro lander, and proximity operations in low gravity. All are applicable to future missions. Such technologies have...precise physical phenomena apart than the extremely low gravity that govern the surface character of asteroids, influence...
October 2015
Copernicus, ESA’s most ambitious Earth Observation programme
...of technological development. GOCE: Launched in 2009, the Gravity field and steady-state Ocean Circulation Explorer (GOCE) mission... to accurately determine global and regional models of Earth’s gravity field and geoid, the shape that the surface of ...
March 2016
Saving Earth from an Expanding Sun
... so that it does not escape the asteroid’s gravity. In that case the asteroid follows the spacecraft,... along a radius from the centre of Earth. This is called gravity gradient stabilisation. Could shifting Earth to a different orbit ultimately be ...
October 2016
Project MOONWALK
... and bulky space suits. Even under zero gravity conditions, these suits significantly constrain natural human ... be used both on land and under water (to simulate reduced or zero gravity conditions on the Moon or in orbit). Thus the suit is a valuable...
