June 8, 2018 updates Posted on June 8, 2018June 28, 2020 by Doug Loss OHB System to sign PLATO construction contract in June http://spacenews.com/ohb-system-to-sign-plato-construction-contract-in-june/ Relativistic solar sails http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-6404/aaa341 A High-performance Atmospheric Radiation Package: with applications to the radiative energy budgets of giant planets https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.02573 Modeling Indications of Technology in Planetary Transit Light Curves — Dark-side illumination https://arxiv.org/abs/1505.07399 Similarity indexing of exoplanets in search for potential habitability: application to Mars-like worlds https://arxiv.org/abs/1608.06702 Internal Structure of Giant and Icy Planets: Importance of Heavy Elements and Mixing https://arxiv.org/abs/1705.09320 Earth Similarity Index and Habitability Studies of Exoplanets https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.07101