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November 2016
Microgravity and space research: Bringing the commercial market into focus
.... The ISS and the Space Shuttle have been crucial in providing a backdrop for successful discoveries in space and microgravity research connected to life sciences It was found...and space research - worlds that seldom interact but that could generate great value by working together. To realise this, a first objective is to make the microgravity environment a research tool for investigators, scientists and companies, particularly in life sciences...
May 2017
World needs strong space governance system
... exploitation of natural space resources, growing military and strategic uses of space, and the contamination of both Earth and space environments - remain without specific regulatory control and guidance. Space matters for everyone and it is our...Prof Dr Ram S. Jakhu is the Director of the Institute of Air and Space Law and the Centre for Research in Air and Space Law of McGill University, Montreal, Canada. He possesses professional experience of ...
June 2017
Space economics - industry trends and space investing
...larger role in shaping both the priorities and the laws and policies governing space. I see this as a consequence of traditional space becoming less influential in that process and some of the protectionism surrounding jobs being ... sector will take an even larger role in shaping both the priorities and the laws and policies governing space The economics of the space industry is evolving rapidly. New sources of capital continue to be attracted...
October 2017
Managing air and space traffic from orbit
...part of the global commons (which covers Earth’s unowned natural resources, such as the oceans, the atmosphere and space). Eighteen annexes to the Chicago Convention covering all aspects of aviation have been made by ICAO. As ...surveillance, since it will give full coverage of Earth’s surface including ocean and polar regions, and also near space for both air and space traffic management in one device, along with meeting the requirements of the ...
September 2017
Binary stars and their extraordinary lives
... black holes merge in real time. With upcoming bigger and better surveys of the sky, binary stars remain a vital pillar of modern astrophysics and a laboratory for testing extreme physics which remains inaccessible ... modelling of binary stars is a major challenge which will require the best of astronomy, astrophysics, applied mathematics and computer science on many levels. Coupled with state of the art observational surveys, our models of binary...
August 2017
Big science from small spacecraft
... the scale in both size and cost, cubesats and nanosats could, in theory, fly more missions for the same budget. But could smaller spacecraft deliver in the space science arena? The answer, as ...and other space agencies. About the author Anthony Freeman joined NASA’s JPL in 1987 and is now manager of JPL’s incubator of new ideas, the Innovation Foundry, working on many mission concepts across Earth Science, Planetary Science and Astrophysics...
August 2016
Polish Space Agency pursues task of developing country’s space expertise
... in microgravity. Three years later the Space Research Centre (CBK) was launched by the Polish Academy of Sciences (PAN). It was dedicated to exploring space and developing space technologies. In the 1970s the practical...first, and to this date only, Polish national in space. Studies by Polish scientists included the fields of astrophysics (solar systems), plasma cosmology in interplanetary space and Earth orbit, studying the Sun, planets and small...
January 2018
Cosmic cocktails and galactic moonshine
... Trek Generations. Indeed, booze in space is far from a new concept. Science fiction has incorporated interplanetary bars and saloons, as well as exotic spirits and cocktails, in storytelling for decades. ...blood wine. Creators of science fiction clearly have difficulty imagining a world without alcohol and science fiction novels have a multitude of treatments for space drinks, interplanetary beer and colourful saloons in space. Whether it is ...
March 2016
Why We Need Space Artists
... the majority (unlike science fiction and fantasy artists, who work almost purely from imagination) do have a background in astronomy, physics and mathematics, which enables them to interpret accurately the data from observatories and space probes, and convert them into...
