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August 2017
Big science from small spacecraft
... the Martian atmosphere by looking at the absorption of sunlight, just-like-that we would have had a science mission in a cubesat form factor. Prof David Spencer of Purdue University aims to go one better in ... JPL’s incubator of new ideas, the Innovation Foundry, working on many mission concepts across Earth Science, Planetary Science and Astrophysics. He also teaches Aerospace Engineering (with a focus on nanosats), Systems Engineering and...
September 2017
Science searches for cosmic company
.... The story was considered interesting, but in no way disturbing. The public had been conditioned by endless science-fiction stories to expect that the red planet may once have hosted life. This was merely... Seth Shostak is Senior Astronomer at the SETI Institute in Mountain View, California. He is also the host of ‘Big Picture Science’, the SETI Institute’s weekly radio show, and is committed to getting the public, especially young people, excited...
May 2018
Challenging the boundaries of materials science
... evolve at an increasing rate, Dr Barrie Dunn looks at how the global space industry is pushing the boundaries of materials science and is addressing the need for more qualified materials engineers in the field. Technology in the space industry...
January 2021
How the UK space sector is levelling up with support from its science facilities
...backing for seven regional projects including a new North West ‘space hub’, led by the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) through the UK Space Agency. The North West already boasts...restricting these facilities to academics, STFC is committed to opening its doors to startups and businesses, developing Science and Innovation campuses to support a culture of multidisciplinary innovation and regional economic impact. Whilst this benefits...
22 March 2019
Citizen science project turns research into a quest
... the answer, their combined guesses will be really close to the correct answer.” The tradition of citizen science goes back hundreds of years, the center says, to a time when observatories referred to their human ... looked at glass plates to find astronomical objects, as the “computers.” The center’s preceding citizen science project was Galaxy Explorer, which also asked volunteers to classify galaxy shapes, but differently. AstroQuest aims...
11 February 2019
Today marks the International Day of Women and Girls in Science 2019
...girls will mark the International Day of Women and Girls in Science. Why does it matter? In a message for the International Day for Women and Girls in Science, Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, Executive Director of UN Women and ... interest in STEM subjects as they reach adolescence. Debunking the myths that girls do not like the sciences and other and gender stereotypes, along with investment in teacher trainings, gender-responsive technology and innovation...
December 2018
Asgardia at Escape Velocity 2018
...the spring, delighting more than 4,700 attendees over three days with over 300 hours of science and science fiction-themed programmes. This year the event featured more museum gallery items, exhibitors, discussion panels... and interactive activities than previously, including ROOM magazine as a media partner for the first time. ...
26 February 2018
2001: The Lost Science – The Scientists, Influences & Designs
...on rocketry provided the background material for science fiction films: from the space station in Hermann Potocnik-alias-Noordung’s 1929 book and Wernher von Braun’s contributions to Collier’s magazine to Walter Dornberger’s writings on rocket-...multiple elevations (side, front, top, etc) are particularly interesting in that they don’t look like science fiction; one could easily imagine a real moon bus based on this design skimming across the lunar...
March 2018
Mapping the dark universe
... (and to reconstruct and consolidate them on ground afterwards) the new approach will simplify the task of science data processing on-ground. Euclid combines several techniques of investigation, or cosmological probes, in a very large.... Table 2: Operations Timeline overview. Ground communications The Euclid spacecraft will produce a high volume of science and housekeeping data, which has to be transmitted back in a timely manner to free space for...
