Planning for space travel
Laura Hiscott reviews The Spacefarer’s Handbook by Bergita and Urs Ganse
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Astronomers capture most detailed images of large, rare metal asteroid
Thermal emissions of asteroid 16 Psyche provide further clues to its composition and origins
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Moon mission successfully retrieves lunar samples
Chang’e-5 has returned lunar material for the first time in 45 years to study the evolution history of our closest neighbour, as Ling Xin reports
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China embarks on a decade of human space exploration
With construction of its first dedicated space station set to be complete next year, China is now firmly becoming a major space power, as Ling Xin reports
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Vibrations drive X-ray flares in Jupiter’s aurora
Simultaneous observations by NASA’s Juno and ESA’s XMM Newton satellites shed light on 40-year-old mystery
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Trapped-ion clock passes orbital test
Compact atomic timekeeper has shown good stability since its launch in 2019
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Fuel flow, pressure and heat fluctuations drive combustion oscillations in rocket engines
Understanding the mechanisms that cause damaging combustion oscillations could ease the development of combustors for rocket and aircraft engines
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NASA selects two Venus missions for launch
VERITAS and DAVINCI+ will take-off between 2028 and 2030 to investigate Earth’s sister planet
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Frozen detonation could enable hypersonic flight
Detonation-based engines could play an important role in future space exploration and extremely high-speed intercontinental travel
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China successfully lands Zhurong rover on Mars
China becomes the second country after the US to successfully land a spacecraft on the surface of the red planet
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