Last September a team of researchers assembled in southern France. Their six month assignment: develop a new type of space mission, targeting a mysterious segment of the Sun normally hidden in plain sight. Today the results of their race against the clock have been unveiled. The Laboratoire Astrophysique d'Marseille (LAM) served as host to ESA's latest StarTiger project, with the team building a scale-model prototype in a LAM cleanroom. The project's formal closedown took place today at ESA's ESTEC centre in the Netherlands. Read more