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[Guest_PhilCo126_*]

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.asp...id/1649/l/en-us

[Guest_PhilCo126_*]

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 "

[Guest_PhilCo126_*]

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
...

[Guest_PhilCo126_*]

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.asp...id/1649/l/en-us

[vjkane]

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.wash...;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).

[helvick]

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 - "The Changing Face of Titan"

[Juramike]

This direct link to it at Physics Today works for me - "The Changing Face of Titan"

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/GetPDFS...008000034000001


-Mike

[ngunn]

Great article - thanks for the link.

[Guest_PhilCo126_*]

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.

[Paolo]

The professional magazine "High Perfomance Composites" has an interesting article this month on the use of composites on the JWST

[Guest_PhilCo126_*]

BIS monthly Spaceflight magazine January 2009 has an article on Pioneer 10 with never before published artist impression
http://www.bis-spaceflight.com/sitesia.asp...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!!!

[Paolo]

For anyone interested, I have put on my website an electronic copy of my JBIS paper "ESRO and the deep space" about European planetary exploration planning in the sixties and early seventies.

[Guest_PhilCo126_*]

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

[Guest_PhilCo126_*]

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

[tasp]

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.