This week will bring us the Galileo at 30 meeting, a retrospective of the Galileo mission to Jupiter and the Jovian system: https://www.kiss.caltech.edu/special_events/2025_Galileo_at_30.html Monday marks 30 years since the orbit insertion maneuver. Let’s not forget, aside from the Jovian system,… Read More »Happy Gali-versary (Galileo at 30)
The journal Aerospace Science and Technology covers everything from little ‘copters to starships. But now and then, given its breadth, something is asteroid-relevant. In the Dec issue (vol. 167): Yang, H. Zhu, S. Ge, D. et al. Impulsive maneuver optimization… Read More »Note, Paper: Landing Commanding Understanding
The journal Space Science Reviews goes buffet-style. Now up (2025, vol. 221): Noll, K. S. Levison, H. F. Marchi, S. The Lucy Mission: First to the Jupiter Trojan Asteroids- Editorial Art. 119 s11214-025-01252-9 There’s a Lucy-themed special issue of SpaceSciRev… to… Read More »Space Science Reviews: Lucy (Review…)
No surprise: ESA’s Ministerial Council approved (officially…) the RAMSES mission. While meeting this week (26-27 Nov… US holiday), the European Space Agency’s Council of Ministers officiated Agency matters. RAMSES is now on track to rendezvous with Apophis in ~2029, partly… Read More »RAMSES Has Rubber Stamp
Posted in arXiv, a non-peer reviewed paper, by choice. These preprint servers are also handy for distribution of whitepapers, position papers, and reference works: [multiple fields] www.arxiv.org/pdf/2511.10927 Moullet, A. Burgarella, D. Kataria, T. et al. PRIMA General Observer Science Book Volume… Read More »PRIMA Phase A Ways Elaborated
Now, the second half of the Hayabusa 2025 meeting, or “12th Symposium of Solar System Materials” November 11–14 in JAXA’s Sagamihara campus: https://curation.isas.jaxa.jp/symposium/ (see also Part I). And now, the relevant, best of the meeting program: https://curation.isas.jaxa.jp/symposium/program/ Nov. 13 S31-01 … Read More »Hayabusa Symposium 2025- Pt. II
It’s time for Hayabusa 2025, or properly, the “12th Symposium of Solar System Materials” (November 11–14) at JAXA’s Sagamihara campus: https://curation.isas.jaxa.jp/symposium/ This is the annual meeting of sample return science, first held to discuss the results of Hayabusa’s newly-available sample… Read More »Hayabusa Symposium 2025- Pt. I
The Dec Acta Astronautica (vol. 237) has: Schonberg, W. Squire, M. Williamsen, J. et al. Enhancing the protection of shielded thermal protection systems in sample return spacecraft against MMOD impact p. 23 .2025.08.025Buonagura, C. Giordano, C. Cervone, A. et al.… Read More »Note, Paper: Probes… Literal Probes
Unexpectedly, Applied Sciences has a paper for us (vol. 15 #21: 2 Nov ‘25): Special Issue: Advances in Deep Space Probe Navigation: 2nd EditionQuarta, A. A. Interplanetary Mission Performance Assessment of a TANDEM Electric Thruster-Based Spacecraft art. 11711 app152111711 The… Read More »Note, Paper: Kilowatt Mission Doc
The digital journal Progress in Earth and Planetary Science doesn’t even bother with “issues” anymore. Oh well, just posted in vol. 12, is: Ulamec, S. Michel, P. Murdoch, N, et al. Science operation of IDEFIX, the MMX Phobos rover art.… Read More »Note, Paper: Red Rover Covered