ESA are about to release two golden cubes inside the LISA Pathfinder spacecraft, preparing for a multi-million kilometre space experiment. We explore how the motion of these cubes can open up for a whole new world of observations using gravitational waves – where energy is moving through space as ripples in it, and not as light.
Nasa New Horizons mission is providing us data and images of Pluto for the first time ever, discovering the unknown edges of our solar system: read here and learn more about it..
The study and development of a model for the magnetosphere in its interaction with the Solar Wind is the goal of the ESA Cluster Mission, made of four spacecraft to measure all the parameters involved in the phenomena.
The most powerful camera ever, together with the ambition to build up a billion star catalogue make GAIA one of the most important space missions today.