ESA: Space-Based Solar Power overview (Reminder)

 

The European Space Agency's three-year-old article

is still very much up-to-date.

Link to: ESA

Dark Comets?

 

Apparently displaying characteristics of both asteroids and comets

these objects presently referred to as "dark comets"

have over the last decade urged scientists

to study their seemingly erratic patterns of acceleration

and to investigate in what ways they are different 

from so-called "active asteroids".

Link to: Article by Jonathan O'Callaghan

ESA pictures of the Sun's south pole

 

New pictures and video taken by the European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter

will hopefully help scientists to better understand 

the reversal of the polar fields on the Sun.

Link to: Article by Pallab Ghosh and Gwndaf Hughes

Space Mining Not Dead

 In a recent article for BBC Future

Josh Sims focuses on a wide range of current views and developments

in the field of prospective mining of space resources

highlighting a whole gamut of potential and inevitable challenges.

Link to: "Metals from space: The rocky future of asteroid mining"

Alternative Link:

"Are we on the verge of mining metals from the asteroids above Earth?"

Japanese moon lander heading towards a lunar flyby

 

ispace have successfully set their RESILIENCE lunar lander

on its course towards the moon

Link to: RESILIENCE Lunar Lander Completes First Orbital Maneuver

Link to: ispace-EUROPE Secures First-Ever Mission Authorization Under Luxembourg’s Space Resources Law

BLUE MOON 19 August 2024 (Luxembourg)

 

Liquid water on Mars

 

There are scientific indications that there is likely to be water in the Martian crust,

though unfortunately at a depth of 10 to 20 km below the surface of the planet.

Link to: BBC article by Victoria Gill