Cameron Olbert, writing for SpaceNews,
focuses on the need for closer cooperation
and greater trust among European countries
in terms of satellite information gathering and sensitive data exchange
to guarantee strategic readiness and resilience in years to come.
Richard Hollingham explains
what personal qualities and abilities are required
for candidates to qualify as lunar pioneers
in the near future.
Link to: "Have you got what it takes to go to the Moon?"
These older articles on Solar Power research
by the European Space Agency
are still relevant and topical.
ESA reignites space-based solar power research
Space-based solar power: seeking ideas to make it a reality
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".
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
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?"
ispace have successfully set their RESILIENCE lunar lander
on its course towards the moon
Link to: RESILIENCE Lunar Lander Completes First Orbital Maneuver