Satellite Missions/Shuttles

SwRI manages IMAP payload, payload systems engineering SAN ANTONIO -- Jan. 28, 2020 -- A mission to study the interaction of the solar wind with the ancient cast-off winds of other stars, and the fundamental process of particle…

Within the framework of the European research project HIPATIACredit: Credits: SENER Aeroespacial. The HPT is a new electric space propulsion technology that can provide a competitive alternative to the thrusters currently in use…

Anny Cazenave initiated use of satellites to understand a key result of climate changeCredit: Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory A scientist who has played a key role in documenting modern sea-level rise and its causes is to receive the 2020…

Innovation shown to speed design of composite deployable structuresCredit: Juan Fernandez/NASA WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - An innovation that helps speed the design of fishing rods, skis and cell phone electronics soon will help NASA do its…

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute/A. Bader (Lancaster University). Researchers are busy analysing some of the final data sent back from the Cassini spacecraft which has been in orbit around Saturn for more than 13…

Credit: Planet Labs Inc. URBANA, Ill. - For corn growers, the decision of when and how much nitrogen fertilizer to apply is a perennial challenge. Scientists at the University of Illinois have shown that nanosatellites known as…

Credit: Steve Kurtz / UC Santa Cruz The Royal Astronomical Society is pleased to announce the winners of its medals and prizes for 2020, the bicentenary of the foundation of the RAS. Each year the Society recognises significant…

NASA spacecraft will explore a record eight objectsCredit: NASA and Southwest Research Institute SAN ANTONIO -- Jan. 9, 2020 -- Less than two years before launch, scientists associated with NASA's Lucy mission, led by Southwest…

ITHACA, N.Y. - Think of it as a celestial parlor game: What is the minimum number of satellites needed to see every point on Earth? And how might those satellites stay in orbit and maintain continuous 24/7 coverage while contending with…

Credit: © ESA The small red planet is losing water more quickly than what theory as well as past observations would suggest. The gradual disappearance of water (H2O) occurs in the upper atmosphere of Mars: sunlight and chemistry…