Well-awaited gathering with BepiColombo for its sixth Mercury flyby!
On 8 January 2025, the ESA/JAXA BepiColombo mission flew by Mercury for the sixth time, at an altitude of 295 km. This sixth and final flyby reduced the spacecraft’s speed […]
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Planets, Environments and Space Plasmas
A comprehensive and modern description of magnetodisk physics at Jupiter !
The Jovian magnetodisk refers to a thin disc of plasma and electric currents in the magnetosphere of Jupiter located near the equatorial plane beyond the orbit of the moon Io, […]
Successful EMC campaign of the Comet Interceptor DFP instrument suite at ESTEC
During two weeks in September 2024, a team of up to 14 people representing the DFP consortium was present in ESTEC to run a complete ElectroMagnetic Compatibility (EMC) test campaign […]
A successful launch (Hera), a bright comet (Tsuchinshan-Atlas), and one year to go before the delivery of IRAP’s electron spectrometer (LEES) for Comet Interceptor!
The annual meeting of the Dust, fields, Particles (DFP) consortium of the Comet Interceptor mission was hosted at IRAP on October 8 and 9. 40 participants from CBK Warsaw (PI), […]
IRAP delivers the control box for the Raman instrument on board the ESA ExoMars Mars rover
On June 25, 2024, the flight model of the Raman instrument control unit (RLS) was delivered to Thales Alenia Space Italia in Turin. This delivery follows the decision by ESA […]
A tantalizing glimpse of plasma composition during the third Mercury flyby of BepiColombo !
Understanding Mercury’s magnetosphere is crucial for advancing our comprehension of how the solar wind interacts with the planetary magnetospheres. Despite previous missions, several gaps remain in our knowledge of Mercury’s […]
JUICE/PEP Captures Sharpest Image of Earth’s Radiation Belt
From August 19-20, ESA’s (European Space Agency’s) Juice (Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer) mission made history with a daring lunar-Earth flyby and double gravity assist maneuver, a spaceflight first. As the […]
International Workshop on the Radiative Properties of Martian Dust Aerosols
On September 23 and 24, 2024, IRAP hosted an international workshop on the radiative properties of Martian dust aerosols, organized by Aurélien STCHERBININE (IRAP, PEPS), Michael WOLFF (SSI), Jérémie LASUE […]
The planets align with Toulouse in 2027!
We are delighted to report that the Europlanet Science Congress 2027 will be organized at Centre de congrès Pierre Baudis in Toulouse from 19-24 September 2027. The news was officially […]