The National Physical Laboratory (NPL) has helped to establish that femtosecond comb lasers can provide accurate measurement of absolute distance in formation flying space missions. NPL, along with ...

HELSINKI — China aims to construct an array of telescopes in deep space to search for habitable planets orbiting other stars. The Miyin project envisions sending four light-collecting telescopes and a ...

Astrophysicists have made a significant step toward solving the last puzzle in magnetohydrodynamic turbulence theory by observing the weak to strong transition in the space plasma turbulence ...

Generally speaking, space missions are being performed with lone spacecraft heading out into the void to achieve the desired goal of their makers. Sure, these machines might release other, smaller ...

In the past few years, rapid development has been witnessed in spacecraft formation to complete complex missions instead of the traditional single spacecraft. Spacecraft formation refers to a spatial ...

The two Proba-3 spacecraft will build on the historic first to simulate and study a total solar eclipse. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...

First, authors introduce the spacecraft relative orbit dynamics model, the spacecraft formation relative orbit error dynamics model, and basic theory and lemmas. For ...