13 March 2020
ESA and NASA select first science instruments to send to Gateway
...external scientific investigations. ESA’s hardware will actively monitor radiation at all times and return data for...furthest, 70 000 km. The radiation investigation will continue to monitor the changes in protons, electrons and heavy ions and neutrons...
August 2016
Big or small - aerospace innovates through constraints
... the world. Meanwhile, in Washington DC, vice-president Al Gore was taking steps to make his vision for a climate monitoring satellite a reality. The satellite, officially called Triana but nicknamed Goresat, was under development to take real...
February 2018
Growth drivers, requirements and threats in the smallsat industry
... and gas and shipping are increasingly using satellite imagery to monitor their operations. It is estimated that 80 percent of global... module on the ISS. Intended to observe Earth and monitor climate changes, this was the first microsatellite owned by...
August 2018
Measuring the pulse of Mars
...planet from the inside out. Its primary objective is to monitor Mars’ internal workings, not only to help understand more...range of frequencies from varying types of ground motion can be monitored: an ultra-sensitive ‘very broad band’ (VBB) instrument ...
November 2019
Cosmo’s adventures in animated edutainment
... sheer willpower, he survives. Almost 50 years later, he is discovered living alone on Mars by young scientist Yami, while she is monitoring transmissions from Mars Curiosity rover. Now, the history of how Cosmo got to Mars, how he survived all...
September 2021
Developing an in-orbit servicing and manufacturing economy
.... Start-up company Orbit Fab is working to establish the first fuelling stations in space. Here, astronaut Christina Koch monitors a satellite refuelling experiment called Furphy on the ISS in June 2019. Building momentum The importance of being able...
