April 2024
Planning, designing and delivering a spaceport
... unchallenged or immature requirements at the early appraisal stages can unnecessarily bring projects to a premature end. Santa Maria is the southernmost island of the Azores making it a prime location for a Portuguese spaceport with launches towards...
03 July 2020
More metal on the Moon than previously thought, new study suggests
...-bearing minerals relative to our planet. But, if you then look at the metal abundance of rocks in the Moon's maria - the large, darker plains - this theory is turned on its head because they are richer in metals than...
07 August 2020
Huge city-wide lunar lava tubes identified in new study
... stability threshold because of a lower gravitational attraction. "This means that the majority of lava tubes underneath the maria smooth plains are intact. The collapse chains we observed might have been caused by asteroids piercing the...
10 August 2020
Salty dwarf planet Ceres could be hiding an ocean
... of pure water and scientists have found it at Cerealia Facula, a prominent site at the centre of Occator crater. Discovered by Maria Cristina De Sanctis at the Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica, Rome, and colleagues, the team says that the material...
09 November 2020
More woe for Arecibo as a second cable breaks causing more damage
... has endured many earthquakes and tropical storms and narrowly missed being severely damaged when Hurricane Maria blew through in 2017. But lately, the 307 metre dish, which is second only to China's Five Hundred...
13 January 2021
Portugal envision building a spaceport on the Azores islands
.... Portugal has been a member of the European Space Agency for more than 20 years and its Santa Maria Island in the Azores archipelago is used to host one of ESA’s ESTRACK (ESA's Tracking Stations Network) antennas. However...
