Month: June 2022

Find information on satellite licence fees for constellation operators (under the Outer Space Act 1986 and Space Industry Act 2018).

Find out the third-party liability insurance requirements and operators’ indemnification obligations for licences issued under each Act.

NASA’s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN, or MAVEN, mission returned to normal science and relay operations on May 28, 2022, after recovering from an extended safe mode event. The spacecraft encountered problems in February with its Inertial Measurement Units (IMUs).

Media representatives are invited to join a virtual press event at 13 June 2022 from 10:00 to 11:00 CEST, to learn more about the new data set to be released by ESA’s Gaia mission.

Image: Plato’s cave: vacuum test for exoplanet detection

A team of astronomers studied two nearby globular clusters, 47 Tucanae and Omega Centauri, searching for signals produced by annihilating dark matter. Those the searches turned up empty, they weren’t a failure. The lack of a detection placed strict upper limits on the mass of the hypothetical dark matter particle. Shining a light on dark …

Could we Detect Dark Matter’s Annihilation Within Globular Clusters? Read More »

Way back in the late 1980s, the Voyager 2 spacecraft visited Uranus and Neptune. During the flybys, we got to see the first close-up views of those ice giants. Even then, planetary scientists noticed a marked color difference between the two. Yes, they both sport shades of blue. But, if you look closely at Uranus, …

Why are Uranus and Neptune Different Colors? Haze Read More »