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August 2017
Big science from small spacecraft
...MarCO (Mars Cube One) spacecraft as the first interplanetary cubesats, intended as pathfinders for the space science community. Two MarCO spacecraft are scheduled to launch on the same rocket as InSight in May ...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
The promise of space tourism
... investing some of their fortunes in private space travel include Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon.com, who is developing a spacecraft that flies like those envisioned in early science fiction novels. Robert Bigelow, founder of...on Earth as doctors, engineers and inventors. Today’s students don’t view living and working in space or on Mars as science fiction, they see it as the future. SpaceShipOne nestled safely beneath her mothership, the White ...
September 2016
Paediatric cancer patients aim for the stars with space inspired art project
... exhibited at the hospital, to exhibiting our art through partnerships with the Museum of Health and Medical Science and the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, to animation made in collaboration with our patients and families ...to think about their own journey in a new way. I decided that a space suit would be a profound symbol of how we can work together to integrate the best of science and art to create a form of protection. With this in mind, I knew...
May 2018
Taxation of outer space: a next step for space exploration?
... author Milan Mijovic is a founder and the President of the Serbian Office for Space Sciences, Research and Development (SERBSPACE). He is a Space law Ph.D. student and an Air and Space Law Researcher at Union University Law School in Belgrade, Serbia. After several...
March 2017
Space for art: Quilting in orbit
...-known and new fibre artists have stretched their creative muscles to draw the viewer in to the world of science, romance, history and fantasy. You can see all of the ‘Fly Me to the Moon’ quilts here: https... to the Moon and when we make those first steps on Mars we will be wearing space suits. As we’ve seen, space suits designed for use in space have inspired space suit art, but they have also inspired fashion designers to think differently...
May 2017
World needs strong space governance system
...is a prudent, efficient and strong global governance - including a robust space governance system. By global space governance we mean a collection of space-related international binding agreements and non-binding guidelines (and codes of conduct...broadcasting, weather forecasting, navigation, medicine, security and remote sensing - to embrace space tourism, space mining, space-based solar power, and the future settlement on the Moon and Mars. Along...
August 2016
Exploring the problems of criminal justice in space
...administration of justice in outer space; who should be assigned as the investigatory authority and who should administer any resulting punishment? Whilst popular science fiction tends to give ...Gorove, S. (1991), Draft Convention on Manned Space Flight, German Journal of Air and Space Law p.3-8 10 Abeyratne, R. (2004), Space Tourism - Parallel Synergies between Air and Space Law? German Journal of Air and Space Law p.184-202 11 Abeyratne, (n 10) ...
September 2017
Telescope targets enigmatic deep space mystery
... total number of electrons the signal has traversed in the diffuse plasma that fills interstellar and intergalactic space, called the dispersion measure. This smearing of the radio signal due to electrons in the cosmic medium...of one-off FRB events Secondly, magnetic fields play very critical roles in almost every aspect of astrophysics, ranging from star formation to large-scale galactic and intergalactic dynamics. They also have a significant ...
February 2017
Global robotic network for monitoring near-Earth and outer space
... and accelerated expansion of the Universe occurs, will allow Russia to participate in the leading research of vacuum space energy. Discovery of further objects of the Universe at distances of z >10 by using fast-alert observations ... and cooperation with foreign-run observatories where MASTER II is located, for example, the Canary Astrophysical Institute Observatory (Tenerife, Spain), the 10 m SALT telescope observatory (Sutherland, South Africa) ...
