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February 2022
Revolution and responsibility: the challenges of space
... at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Surrounded by stars - this starfield, captured by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope’s Wide Field Camera 3 and Advanced Camera for Surveys, contains the globular cluster ESO 520... and its astronautical aftermath that had not been envisaged. The Copernican revolution completely re-ordered the heavens by placing the Sun at the centre of our universe. Common heritage Armstrong’s words now reflect those ...
March 2016
Why We Need Space Artists
... the same sort of comments when photography was invented, when digital art became available, when the Hubble Space Telescope sent back its first amazing images of distant stars and nebulae. . . But let’s take..., deserts and steaming thermal areas that seemed like the gates of Hell itself. In deep space - the province of stars, nebulae and galaxies - even the Hubble Space Telescope and developments in terrestrial observing have not superseded but...
February 2021
Space archaeology - preserving our orbital heritage
...the regulations) but now awaiting the inevitability of atmospheric drag and gravity to take effect. The Hubble Space Telescope - cultural as well as scientific icon. Harvest option The threat posed by debris within .... Case study One notable space asset within the space heritage discussion is the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). Launched in 1988 aboard Space Shuttle Discovery, it is clear that the venerable space telescope has a limited future...
February 2020
Preserving our space heritage
...we would wish to preserve as important parts of our space heritage in some kind of space museum? Save our satellites Scientific satellites such as the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) have contributed enormously to our understanding ... to the latter question is perhaps an easier one to address. Scientific satellites such as the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) have contributed enormously to our understanding of the universe and are surely worth preserving...
January 2023
Original Sin - Power, Technology and War in Outer Space
...interlinked. “Politics has always been at the heart of humankind’s exploration and utilisation of space, and the space programmes themselves have never been able to transcend terrestrial international politics”. US astronaut, Kevin Ford...in part originally designed and funded to meet the Pentagon’s and the Intelligence Community’s needs. The Hubble Space Telescope is an adapted KH-11 spy satellite that simply looks to the cosmos rather than down on...
August 2016
The promise of space tourism
On Christmas Eve 1968, a turbulent world looked to the heavens for a unique view of our home planet. Apollo 8 astronauts Frank Borman, Jim Lovell and William Anders ... from its extraordinary potential as a blossoming commercial enterprise, there may be some good existential reasons why commercial space, in particular space tourism, may be an important link in humanity’s long-term survival. An immediate benefit of increasing the human presence...
May 2022
Essential guide to the James Webb Space Telescope
... 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 on Hubble’s rich legacy and even to work side-by-side with ...of the visible spectrum, deep into the infrared - invisible to Hubble but exactly poised for JWST. Another motivation for selecting an infrared space telescope comes from our recent advances in the field of exoplanets;...
February 2019
Building a space museum from scratch
...! I felt like Indiana Jones in the warehouse of treasures. Mercury heatshield samples and mission patches. Space-nut heaven But this was just the start. The next box contained models of the US and Soviet spacecraft..., materials from a Mercury spacecraft, and several types of thermal protection tiles used in the Space Shuttle programme. For a space-nut like me, it was heaven. The big crate had my heart pounding. It stood nearly as tall as me and by ...
January 2023
China’s space ambitions fuel defence spending and global innovation
... coverage. In 2022, China successfully completed the deployment of its own space station called Tiangong (Heavenly Palace) which, unlike the NASA-led International Space Station (ISS), is entirely built and run by China. It is... expected to last 10 years. China’s three-module space station witnessed a historic ...
