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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...
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...
June 2018
Space 2080 a future perspective
...landing rocket plane. All space programmes were boosted because the price of access to Earth orbit decreased to a fourth of its initial value. On Earth as it is on Mars - Earth’s martian science city. Mineral resources ...dependent health issues or the monitoring of ecosystems by the patri’Ot citizen association. The term ‘space applications’ has definitely become obsolete because all these observation systems are part of a continuum. Technological...
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 ...
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 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...
August 2018
AI offers new approach to space situational awareness
... of Interest (ACI), several SSA workshops have been carried out with support from the UK Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) and the US European Office of Aerospace Research & Development (EOARD)...Using for example Variational Autoencoders (VAE), we can model the variations of the appearance of a particular space object or a class of space objects. We can also model (or interpolate) a finer variation between objects or types. In figure...
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 2018
Ever-changing views on space resource utilisation
... blindly, did not facilitate the attraction of investment, whereas the possibility that extraction of space resources amounts to appropriation incommodes the initial planning. Hearing the concerns of all parties involved... and private interests. Whether a regulatory solution is on the horizon or not, the debate on space resources governance is definitely here to stay, especially given the time-consuming procedures involved. Serious international...
