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23 February 2018
UK to host world’s first commercial deep-space communications station
... viewers of events such as the Apollo 11 Moon landing, will help create the world’s first commercial deep-space communications station, capable of tracking future missions to the Moon and beyond. At present, if you are planning on...meet the high-end performance and technology requirements needed by ESA, NASA and private space exploration companies for deep-space communications. Goonhilly CEO Ian Jones said: “We already have a great deal of interest...
July 2020
Covid-19 infects global space community
... outbreak has had significant medical, social and economic effects on the planet, but how has the space community fared? The full answer will not be known for many months, but in this article Seraphim’s... Centre (ESOC). Although ESA resumed operations on 2 April, it was clear that the space community was considering more of a move to remote operation of space missions (that is, remote from the ground station as well as from the spacecraft). In fact...
March 2021
Space weather and risk mitigation
... variety of infrastructure interconnections has changed the status of space weather among the space community, while the magnitude of the associated terrestrial hazards has further broadened the remit of space weather risk analysis. The corresponding challenges and opportunities...
August 2018
Ever-changing views on space resource utilisation
... commercial interests of the rich and powerful prevail. As hot topics go, space resource utilisation has been on the boil within the international space community for a number of years. This activity goes by several names, each... of which is paired with a specific connotation. The most used is ‘space mining’ but it fails to reflect...
July 2020
Pandemic in space – are we ready?
... fallout, are expected to linger for years to come. How can the space community learn from this and respond to a future pandemic in space? Upon returning to Earth on 17 April 2020, following her 200-day ...materials returned to Earth, would be of genuine concern and interest to the international community. Article IX further provides that the study and exploration of space and celestial bodies must be conducted in such a way “as to avoid their...
October 2018
The ethics of space exploration
... without the necessary Federal Communications Commission approval. It leads to the creation of at least five start-up ventures aiming to set up a space-based broadcast backbone for blockchains. It is a space race without a real end... 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...
February 2019
Building a space museum from scratch
..., located in a beautiful farming valley just outside of the capital city of Australia. The Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex (CDSCC) is one of three facilities that provides two-way radio contact to around 40 robotic...the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation’s Outreach and Administration Lead for the Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex in Australia and has also worked at the CSIRO’s Parkes Radio Telescope, the ...
July 2019
Aggression in outer space – time for action
...dedicated to avoiding interference and potential collisions. In view of these various threats to the sustainable use of outer space, the international space community must act All this is very good, but not sufficient. It is now necessary to move to a..., there is a good case for doing a lot more and organising it such that the civilian space community benefits from it more that it does today. In its budget proposal for the next multiyear financial ...
April 2025
Maximising returns to Earth - the infinite potential of space
...of the spectrum, not only to those present but to the global space community at large. In a passionate keynote speech, astrophysicist and space environmentalist Moriba Jah centred on the idea that humans have shifted from ... Alok Jha (left), science and technology editor, The Economist. Moriba Jah’s keynote challenged the space community to abandon the mindset of ownership in favour of stewardship, invoking parallels between polluted oceans and ...
