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August 2020
Battle for the night sky - from telescopes to ad-breaks
...equivalent global coverage. As LEO becomes ever more congested and exploited, human activity in space is increasingly visible in the night sky Perhaps the most notable entrant to this market is SpaceX with its Starlink constellation, ... hopefully allow the rest of us to enjoy the balance between the benefits of space-based applications and the inspiration of the night sky. Editor’s note: readers might also be interested to see the Opinion piece by...
February 2020
Preserving our space heritage
... answer 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. The.... In fact, during its construction it overtook Venus to become the second brightest object visible in the night sky, after the Moon. Even so, watching the ISS pass overhead as an unresolved point of light doesn’t...
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...it was natural to assume that there could be vegetation, growing and spreading as the pole cap melts in spring. Night launch of Discovery (Acrylics, 1995) a private commission Some astronomers, notably Percival Lowell, even believed that they...
31 March 2021
A new skyglow effect produced by space objects is brightening our night skies, new study says.
...“light polluted” locations. "Our primary motivation was to estimate the potential contribution to night sky brightness from external sources, such as space objects in Earth's orbit," said Miroslav Kocifaj of the Slovak Academy of Sciences and... effect of light from individual objects on the night sky, the team’s work looked at the bigger picture by modelling the impact of all known space debris such as spent rocket stages and decommissioned ...
February 2022
Revolution and responsibility: the challenges of space
... is probably more familiar to philosophers and readers of the Critique of Practical Reason than to astronomers who scrutinise the sky and astronauts who venture into it. It deserves, however, to be taken seriously by both sides, as it sums up - ... 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...
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...
October 2018
The ethics of space exploration
... a literal disco ball, made out of dozens of highly reflective panels, creating an artificial star in our night sky. A universal symbol, but also a temporary one as the object deorbited after a few months. Let’s make...for a philosopher, re-affirming its role as a multi-disciplinary think tank for the global space community. The Space Generation Advisory Council could initiate a project group dedicated to humanities in general, broadening the ...
July 2019
Who owns outer space?
...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 on the..., we would do well to remember that outer space has always been the realm of the idealist. Long before Jules Verne’s stories, humans looked up at the night sky and imagined cities on the Moon, journeys between ...
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...
