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October 2018
Using space-based data for humanitarian causes
... is an unfortunate state of affairs. Until the power of current technology is matched with an international legal structure that can empower it to increase human security, it will likely continue to fall short of its capability ... law & regulation. He has been a contributor to several aviation and space law focused journals, is a member of the International Institute of Space Law, is the Chair of the Legal Technical Committee with the American ...
July 2020
Lego’s replica space programme
...significance of sending people to the Moon, one can impress them with one’s knowledge of structural engineering, rocket propellants and (geek alert!) the fact that the Saturn V’s first-stage turbopumps... and writer, and a Commissioning Editor for ROOM Space Journal. He has 40 years of experience as a satellite communications engineer and consultant to the space industry, space insurance and space education sectors. He is the author of six books...
July 2021
Designing for life in outer space - The importance of design for long-term space missions
... are considered very important to enhance space re-configuration for crew privacy and socialisation aims. The racks on the ISS are replaced by easily removable cylindrical structures that can slide and transform themselves into...She has chaired international symposia and workshops on design for outer space and has written books and published numerous papers in scientific journals. She has been the recipient of several prestigious awards, including ...
February 2019
The Space Elevator – an alternative path to space?
... added protection, and reassembled The compression strength of current materials is insufficient for a true space elevator [7], although a structure of several kilometres’ height could lift rocket launches above the denser atmosphere and make them...to address this by matching a launch loop to the bottom end of the Space Elevator that moves the bottom end of the static structure out of the atmosphere. Of course, a launch loop has not been tested,...
July 2019
Who owns outer space?
... of ‘the mankind provisions’ has thus reached an impasse and, according to former Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Space Law, Prof Joanne Gabrynowitz, it is “now primarily a political problem and... therefore, only subject to ...a political solution. Without supportive political action to develop the law of space, space lawyers are reduced to the 20th century version of arguing the number of angels that can sit ...
January 2023
Original Sin - Power, Technology and War in Outer Space
... the military uses of outer space, and the author of War in Space: Strategy, Spacepower, Geopolitics and several papers on space policy in a variety of academic journals. Dr Bowen frequently appears in media items on space policy and advises practitioners on space security and defence policy...
August 2018
AI offers new approach to space situational awareness
... objects or behaviours. Figure 3 illustrates the so-called embedding-space of the VAE. Suspicious detections of a similar nature can be grouped or clustered together, within a greater overall structure. For example, ski-bags branch out from a larger... structure of large cases, and within this smaller ski-bag cluster are ski-bags that contain assault rifles. So, when a new unseen firearm or space object is registered by the ...
May 2022
Essential guide to the James Webb Space Telescope
... around nearby worlds. Although we have planned extraordinary science, we cannot imagine the universe the James Webb Space Telescope is about to reveal. WST is not ‘Hubble’s Replacement’ but ‘Hubble’s Successor’, designed to build... of each part of a galaxy or nebula, helping them understand the complex features of these cosmic structures. However, the most revolutionary tool on NIRSec is the multi-object spectrometer, equipped with 250,000 ...
February 2020
Preserving our space heritage
... this part of the problem; and in the case of the HST, it already has a suitable docking structure attached to it that would facilitate capture and transfer to a safer orbit. Even when a stable orbit has...a satellite is still likely to need attitude control and thermal management to maintain its physical integrity in the space environment. There are also hazards ‘up there’ which exhibits in terrestrial museums do not have to endure. Radiation...
