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Posted by: PhilCo126 Feb 13 2008, 10:47 AM

The March issue of the British Interplanetary Society's (BIS) monthly magazine SPACEFLIGHT has an excellent 8-pages article on understanding the Moon: New Lunar Exploration by Donald A Beattie.

http://www.bis-spaceflight.com/sitesia.aspx/page/184/id/1649/l/en-us

Posted by: PhilCo126 Feb 13 2008, 06:44 PM

Forgot to mention it also has an article preview on BepiColombo, article on COROT and Ken Kremer's viewpoint " Dawn sails towards infant asteroid worlds "

Posted by: PhilCo126 Feb 21 2008, 07:41 PM

Interesting articles in March 2008 issue of Scientific American:
- The end of cosmology: an accelerating universe wipes out traces of its own origins
- NASA's flimsy argument for nuclear weapons: nukes will not be needed to guard against dangers from space
- Stirling in Deep Space: NASA plans to replace RTGs by Stirling engines
...

Posted by: PhilCo126 Aug 6 2008, 03:46 PM

The October 2008 issue of "Spaceflight" magazine will carry several articles on unmanned spaceflight, among which tracking NEA, etc...
http://www.bis-spaceflight.com/sitesia.aspx/page/184/id/1649/l/en-us

Posted by: vjkane Aug 9 2008, 06:55 AM

The current issue of Physics Today has made the content of Ralph Lorenz's article, The Changing Face of Titan, available for free at http://ptonline.aip.org.offcampus.lib.washington.edu/dbt/dbt.jsp?KEY=PHTOAD&Volume=61&Issue=8&usertype=indiv. This is simply the best summary of the Cassini Titan results that I've seen so far. The context that Ralph provides also makes a strong case for prioritizing Titan as the focus of the next Flagship mission (although obliquely by emphasizing the similarities and differences between Titan and Earth).

Posted by: helvick Aug 9 2008, 07:52 AM

That appears to a protected UW link, it prompts me for a UW credential when I follow it at any rate. This direct link to it at Physics Today works for me - http://ptonline.aip.org/journals/doc/PHTOAD-ft/vol_61/iss_8/34_1.shtml

Posted by: Juramike Aug 9 2008, 03:54 PM

Thanks!

For some reason, the figures shown in the html article are only partially shown (you'll need to click on each one to get the entire figure and extensive caption). The full range of all the illustrations and images can be seen in the pdf:
http://link.aip.org/getpdf/servlet/GetPDFServlet?filetype=pdf&id=PHTOAD000061000008000034000001


-Mike

Posted by: ngunn Aug 9 2008, 04:14 PM

Great article - thanks for the link.

Posted by: PhilCo126 Nov 20 2008, 07:02 PM

BIS Spaceflight magazine December 2008 has an excellent 9-pages article by Robert April:
Where next Columbus? NASA’s future planetary exploration missions.
Overview with proposed timeline for lunar and mars missions, outer planet missions and missions of opportunity. Good photos of the Mars Science Laboratory “Scarecrow” vehicle, the next Mars rover.

Posted by: Paolo Nov 24 2008, 08:22 PM

The professional magazine "High Perfomance Composites" has http://www.compositesworld.com/articles/composites-stabilize-space-based-telescope.aspx this month on the use of composites on the JWST

Posted by: PhilCo126 Dec 5 2008, 04:18 PM

BIS monthly Spaceflight magazine January 2009 has an article on Pioneer 10 with never before published artist impression
http://www.bis-spaceflight.com/sitesia.aspx/page/184/id/1920/l/en-us

The February 2009 issue will have the MER update and all the photos made by the UMSF.com community. I’m still lobbying to get another MER cover…

Thanks again for the help of Alan Martin, Eduardo Tesheiner, Marco Di Lorenzo and Ken Kremer for their assistance in getting these images!!!

Posted by: Paolo Jan 7 2009, 03:06 PM

For anyone interested, I have put on my website an electronic copy of my JBIS paper http://www.geocities.com/p_ulivi/esro.pdf about European planetary exploration planning in the sixties and early seventies.

Posted by: PhilCo126 Feb 28 2009, 09:17 PM

BIS Spaceflight magazine April 2009:
ExoMars and the search for life on Mars by Jeffrey Marlow

Posted by: PhilCo126 Apr 7 2009, 03:46 PM

BIS Spaceflight magazine May 2009:
Did Phoenix spot liquid water on Mars (Rudolf van Beest)
Kepler Space Obs Exo-planet mission (Philip Corneille)

Posted by: tasp Apr 16 2009, 12:48 PM

Current issue of Scientific American has an interesting article on atmospheric loss processes.

Amazing tidbit:

Yucatan impact 65MYA removed 1/100,000 of earth's atmosphere.

Posted by: PhilCo126 Jun 3 2009, 04:23 PM

The July 2009 issue of Sky & Telescope magazine has an excellent DVD, "Mars: Exploration of the Red Planet", dedicated to the Mars missions. DVD for computer play back...

Posted by: PhilCo126 Aug 18 2009, 05:36 PM

The September 2009 issue of Spaceflight magazine has 2 great Mars-related articles:

Seven minutes of terror: entry, descent and landing systems for Mars ( Joel Powell )
A 12-pages article discussing landing systems since Viking to Sojounrer, MER and MSL sky crane

Science from arctic Mars: grand adventure ended by storm clouds ( Ken Kremer )
A 5-pages article on Phoenix Polar Lander with photos by Marco di Lorenzo

Posted by: ngunn Aug 20 2009, 09:55 AM

Thanks to John Sheff for this link:

Paper by Jonathan Lunine - "Saturn's Titan: A Strict Test for Life's Cosmic Ubiquity"
http://arxiv.org/abs/0908.0762

Posted by: PhilCo126 Oct 16 2009, 03:51 PM

BIS Spaceflight November 2009 has an article on HIPPARCOS 1989 and an article on LRO/LCROSS by Ken Kremer.
BIS Spaceflight December 2009 has articles on CoRoT mission... The January 2010 issue will have the MER article...

Posted by: Paolo Oct 17 2009, 08:08 AM

For French speaking UMSFers, a nice article about JPL published yesterday in "le Monde" daily
http://www.lemonde.fr/planete/article/2009/10/16/aiguilleurs-du-cosmos_1254814_3244.html

Posted by: imipak Nov 20 2009, 05:57 PM

Time magazine's "Fifty Best Inventions of 2009" includes http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1934027_1934003_1933951,00.html at 7, and http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1934027_1934003_1933956,00.html (sic... ) at Number 11.

Posted by: PhilCo126 Dec 7 2009, 02:41 PM

Received the January 2010 issue of BIS' monthly Spaceflight magazine, more on its contents by clicking the cover at this weblink:
http://www.bis-spaceflight.com/sitesia.aspx/page/184/id/2101/l/en-us


Thanks again to everyone involved at UMSF

Posted by: Astro0 Dec 7 2009, 09:05 PM

Hmmm, that latest cover looks familiar!